RBP7 - SPOILERS - Genghis Khan of Egypt

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Placeholder, thanks for reading!

[Mist]

Your start

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Fun quiz: what did I do with my starting settler?

[Thoth]

"Starting Settler" ?

With 4 moves and Sentry 1 and 2, I hope you made a good call on where to settle.

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Bad news: I'm very unlikely to have horses in my capital's fat cross.

Seriously though, normally I don't care about my land quality because the starts are normed. If Mist really did roll a random map though my start is flippin' amazing!

EDIT: My sense is grow to 4, settler. Anyone disagree? Anyone want to weigh in on how many workers I want pre-settler? Remember, I'm IMP.

[Mist]

This map is as random as they go, and yes, I do think you hit a jackpot

[T-hawk]

Anyone want to weigh in on how many workers I want pre-settler? Remember, I'm IMP.

Could be as many as three. As you probably know, IMP means you want to chop settlers, to pay as much of the cost as possible in multiplied hammers instead of unmultiplied food.

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Could be as many as three. As you probably know, IMP means you want to chop settlers, to pay as much of the cost as possible in multiplied hammers instead of unmultiplied food.

Thanks T-hawk. A question and a consideration. My thinking with pop 4, beyond the fact that I have four good tiles, is the cow and the gold give me nice multiplicative hammers. But are the 6 base hammers not worth worrying about in settler production terms relative to chopping? That might matter for instance if I grew to pop 2, got a worker, and kept making workers while working farms, then went directly into a chopped settler.

The consideration is I'm Genghis of Egypt. That's by no means the best rushing combo, but it's up there, and it's as good as anything in this game. That means getting horses online and maybe producing a barracks in the cap while that's happening is more important than pure hammer/commerce maximizing.

[T-hawk]

I think the hammers are worth it. The cow has *more* yield than even corn towards imperialistic settlers at 4F 3H compared to 6F. Gold is less clear since it's trading foodhammers for commerce but probably also worth growth first.

Adding new strong tiles in an existing city is much cheaper than adding new tiles in a new city. The cow tile costs 26 food to grow onto (normal speed), but the first tile of a new city costs 100 foodhammers.

As for balancing expansion with rushing, afraid you have to work that out yourself.

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