[Spoiler] Any volunteers for a human sacrifice? Brennus of the Aztecs, by Krill

[Krill]

Short answer: Mining first. Need to go Mining>BW so the worker can chop after hooking the cows - it's better than moving back from the cow to the farm, and the farm instead of the cow takes just as long to hook up but is worse at building workers and settlers.

[Krill]

Longer answer

OK, that's that sorted, unless Darrell or ASM can come up with something better.

[Krill]

Explanation: worker first is a no brainer. So is hooking hte pig. The question of what to do after that is either hook the wheat or the cow. The wheat means that you have to immediately hook the cows third, and slavery/chops are delayed, meaning that you have no reason to get a second worker, so instead either grow to size 5+ and delay the settler or build the settler at size 3 and lack workers to chop the capital and improve the second city.

So BW has to be second.

That means the cows have to be hooked second. The options then are to either start a worker a few turns earlier at size 2, meaning that the warrior doesn't get built until after t35 and no need to use slavery, or grow to size 3. The advantage of growing to size 3 (in addition to getting the warrior out to cover the worker) is that the second worker is finished the same turn the first worker finishes the first chop, so it is a lot easier to sync up the chops, and the third pop is slaved into the third worker. It also lets the capital regrow to 3 to work the wheat/pig/cow trinity. With 3 workers the capital can continue to be deforested or the second city can get improved really quickly and focus on growing.

[darrelljs]

I played around some more with the size 2 scenario and even though the settler is a out faster the overall output is sufficiently lower to make it a poor choice.

Darrell

[fluffyflyingpig]

Please name your cap 'RB Naming Themes" and use the theme for the rest of your cities

[Krill]

...Done.

[Krill]

Alphabetical Order...too long...

some one care to summarise the other naming schemes for me?

[antisocialmunky]

I think there's been Terry Prachett/Disk World, Spullla's Civil War Battles in PB2, I'm doing Sid Meier games in PB7, Speaker is doing LoL in PB4, dunno about the PBEM ones.

[Krill]

[Krill]

Looking at that picture, I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to be settling south...the warrior is going to swing around (moving 3 next turn) and then go scout out the land along the river. I need to know if there is a viable city site that can share the pigs or not.