Thanks for comments, Sulla. About your last suggestion, I know that I screwed up my opening in PBEM2. But I wonder what I should have done better in PBEM 5 and in this PBEM regarding openings.
Regarding PBEM 5 [SPOILERS!]:
And then this PBEM:
My warrior started upon hill 1W of settler, 2 tiles to north was only way for my warrior to use up 2 movement points and same time reveal more parts of map.
My decision back then: move settler 1W upon hill and settle there, it is relative dry land, except that citrus which helped me to grow in 5 turns.
Opened with scout-builder (knowing that I am taking risk with barb, already discovered camp at east). Tile picker chose horse tile and I purchased 1
3
tile soon I got 50 gold.
Then after finishing builder, barb invaded, I was able to farm wheat and build pasture before forcing builder to retreat in city.
Meanwhile slinger quick completed thanks improved horse tile (got pillaged by barb slinger) and purchased tile mentioned before, after that quick warrior production and mop up barb threat.
Then builder repaired horse pasture and created plantation in order to keep population happy till size 4 and content till size 6. Settler completed at turn 28.
I notice that I got habit to get builder before settler, this PBEM both Emperor K and Suboptimal got settler before worker and settled their 2nd cities before TheArchduke and me who did go builder-settler route.
Wonder what is better, in my case I think builder first was better since I could improve wheat (which leads to irrigation faster for plantation), horse and citrus tiles, also keep in mind that I found Hattusa fast, so fast research irrigation was possible.
In PBEM 2, I do often read PBEM 2 threads over and over again, not only to again bask myself in glory, but also analyzing it over and over again: was this good move?, should I have done things differently? etc... In PBEM 2 with 5 sugar inside borders, it was probably better go settler first using 2x 22 tiles plus 13 tiles when I reached size 3 than builder first in hindsight. Then I could have settled that jungle spot earlier than Woden who did claim it in PBEM 2.
But again when PBEM 2 started, I was total green, only winning against AI at prince difficulty, after PBEM 2, emperor difficulty no problem for me. By far best way to improve yourself is playing multiplayer, not SP against AI who don't know how they should play.
Regarding PBEM 5 [SPOILERS!]:
And then this PBEM:
My warrior started upon hill 1W of settler, 2 tiles to north was only way for my warrior to use up 2 movement points and same time reveal more parts of map.
My decision back then: move settler 1W upon hill and settle there, it is relative dry land, except that citrus which helped me to grow in 5 turns.
Opened with scout-builder (knowing that I am taking risk with barb, already discovered camp at east). Tile picker chose horse tile and I purchased 1
3 tile soon I got 50 gold.Then after finishing builder, barb invaded, I was able to farm wheat and build pasture before forcing builder to retreat in city.
Meanwhile slinger quick completed thanks improved horse tile (got pillaged by barb slinger) and purchased tile mentioned before, after that quick warrior production and mop up barb threat.
Then builder repaired horse pasture and created plantation in order to keep population happy till size 4 and content till size 6. Settler completed at turn 28.
I notice that I got habit to get builder before settler, this PBEM both Emperor K and Suboptimal got settler before worker and settled their 2nd cities before TheArchduke and me who did go builder-settler route.
Wonder what is better, in my case I think builder first was better since I could improve wheat (which leads to irrigation faster for plantation), horse and citrus tiles, also keep in mind that I found Hattusa fast, so fast research irrigation was possible.
In PBEM 2, I do often read PBEM 2 threads over and over again, not only to again bask myself in glory, but also analyzing it over and over again: was this good move?, should I have done things differently? etc... In PBEM 2 with 5
sugar inside borders, it was probably better go settler first using 2x 22 tiles plus 13 tiles when I reached size 3 than builder first in hindsight. Then I could have settled that jungle spot earlier than Woden who did claim it in PBEM 2. But again when PBEM 2 started, I was total green, only winning against AI at prince difficulty, after PBEM 2, emperor difficulty no problem for me. By far best way to improve yourself is playing multiplayer, not SP against AI who don't know how they should play.
What you could do though is take the attached starting save, delete the starting settler for 2 of the players, and then settle one of the players, work the lowest food/production yields, fortify the warrior in the capital, and build and delete units. Then you can play through the opening 30 or so turns in Hot Seat mode. 
