[SPOILERS] Asoka of Aztec (DMOC/Nakor)

[Nakor]

End of turn sees us finishing a warrior. That might convince Kublai to move away.
Deer connected, moved the worker the pasture the horses.
Mining in at eot as well. What do we tech next? BW? Wheel? Archery?

[DMOC]

If he declares war, then yes that might be the best thing to do. He'll put the warrior on defensive terrain so even if we get 2 v 1 in warriors it may not work. We should try and get our warrior over to his capital.

Edit: if not, BW next.

[Nakor]

Well, that's an interesting turn! Kublai didn't declare and moved away:



That means BW next. Going to build another Warrior before we go for a second worker or a settler.



Here is our scout in the north. Finding even better city sites:



And a Demographics shot for you to analyse:

[Nakor]

Another turn sees us finish a pasture on the horses. Going to move to the pigs next with a warrior to protect the worker.

Score wise:
Kubla 57
We 51
SM/Lewwyn 45

Found more pigs up north.

[DMOC]

Nice job all around. And good idea with using the warrior for protection.

I'd build a worker after our second warrior, then a settler (preferably with 1 chop) followed by another warrior (possibly to grow to size 4).

Any ideas for a second city? Ideally it should have 2 good food resources.

[Nakor]

Haven't taken a good look at a second city site, will take some more screenshots next turn.

Move our worker to start on the pigs.

Our scout finds something interesting:



End of turns sees our second warrior finished and Cap grow to size 3. Another worker will be ordered up.

[Nakor]

Another fast turn. Started a 4-turn worker and send the second warrior east to scout there. More screenshots tomorrow, I promise!

[Nakor]

Here's our south and north. Made a very simple dotmap. I'm sure you can do a lot better, so I'm looking forward to your thoughts on the best next city site.
I think we might want to settle towards Kublai first to push him west/north and then settle the good blocking site up north (A or B).

All depens on what our warrior finds east, of course...

[DMOC]

I agree with settling towards KK.

I would recommend against settling that blocking city first. What's more important is getting a second city with more food and one that is closer to us.

In that respect, I think fish city would be good, but move it 1 south so it retains all the food and has the capital's pigs to share. That way they can alternate, and the second city can use the pigs to grow fast and whip two workboats for the 2 seafood resources. Without the extra food, it's going to take a longer time to get those boats out since we'll have to spend time chopping.

After that ... I guess blocking city and site A will be good places. We will need defense there.

I guess this suggests fishing after bronze working?

Edit: If we can found a religion, then that could justify settling the second city where I suggested it since culture will expand faster. Of course, it would better if we could expand culture in the blocking city, but I tend to have better starts in Civ when my second city is very close to my capital.

[Nakor]

New turn with no news, so no pics!

Fish site first sounds like a plan.
I think we should tech a religion before fishing to get it in that city. We might be able to do that trick again with our blocker city towards Kublai.

So: Poly - Fishing - Wheel?