Hi all. I've been a longtime lurker of this forum but recently joined so this my the story of my first RB Adventure.
So looking at the start, this is pretty easily the worst start I think I've ever had, which should make for some interesting times. Opened with Worker first as is the norm for me and started research onto BW so we could chop out early Workers/Settlers. With the start being as it was, I wanted to expand out quickly onto better city sites, and as a bonus early BW would allow me to see Copper in time to plan out my next few cities.
On turn two I got lucky and popped Agriculture from a goody hut.
![[Image: gCoA80A.png]](http://i.imgur.com/gCoA80A.png)
By turn eight, my Scout popped a map from another hut which gave me a decent idea of the lands surrounding the capital.
![[Image: 7crtJ1P.png]](http://i.imgur.com/7crtJ1P.png)
On turn 24, I started work on my first Settler who completed on turn 32 and headed out West towards Zara to lock down a nice city with Rice/Cows leading to the following early dotmap of the area:
![[Image: 3h80sO3.png]](http://i.imgur.com/3h80sO3.png)
I would end up opting to move Pink Dot in that screenshot east by one tile to avoid too much cultural conflict for tiles with Zara and settle the city on turn 36. This city was definitely a marked improvement over the capital and allowed me to continue to expand, leading to the founding of Blue Dot in the above screenshot on T50, truly a spectacular city site.
My notes become a little more sparse over the next 25 or so turns as I expanded out to another couple of cities, leading to the following overview on turn 77.
![[Image: Lcb1hmS.png]](http://i.imgur.com/Lcb1hmS.png)
Unfortunately, this was the peak of the Russian Empire in this particular timeline. Less than a half-dozen turns after that screeshot, a Barb Archer walked up to Novgrod and won a very low-odds combat against my defending Archer and the city fell. A handful of turns after that, Brennus declared War and was able to capture my northern city of Rostov with a couple Chariots against the Archer defender as I was unable to whip another Archer on time.
At that point I took a break from the game for a couple of weeks. I came back to play on for another dozen or so turns but I was so far behind and Brennus still wouldn't take peace, so I retired just before turn 100.
Game Loss in 400 BC.
So looking at the start, this is pretty easily the worst start I think I've ever had, which should make for some interesting times. Opened with Worker first as is the norm for me and started research onto BW so we could chop out early Workers/Settlers. With the start being as it was, I wanted to expand out quickly onto better city sites, and as a bonus early BW would allow me to see Copper in time to plan out my next few cities.
On turn two I got lucky and popped Agriculture from a goody hut.
By turn eight, my Scout popped a map from another hut which gave me a decent idea of the lands surrounding the capital.
On turn 24, I started work on my first Settler who completed on turn 32 and headed out West towards Zara to lock down a nice city with Rice/Cows leading to the following early dotmap of the area:
I would end up opting to move Pink Dot in that screenshot east by one tile to avoid too much cultural conflict for tiles with Zara and settle the city on turn 36. This city was definitely a marked improvement over the capital and allowed me to continue to expand, leading to the founding of Blue Dot in the above screenshot on T50, truly a spectacular city site.
My notes become a little more sparse over the next 25 or so turns as I expanded out to another couple of cities, leading to the following overview on turn 77.
Unfortunately, this was the peak of the Russian Empire in this particular timeline. Less than a half-dozen turns after that screeshot, a Barb Archer walked up to Novgrod and won a very low-odds combat against my defending Archer and the city fell. A handful of turns after that, Brennus declared War and was able to capture my northern city of Rostov with a couple Chariots against the Archer defender as I was unable to whip another Archer on time.
At that point I took a break from the game for a couple of weeks. I came back to play on for another dozen or so turns but I was so far behind and Brennus still wouldn't take peace, so I retired just before turn 100.
Game Loss in 400 BC.
