[SPOILERS] Zanth's thread

[zanth]

Yeah toroid + monarch is painful. To confirm, the difficulty will be prince, not monarch.

still the choice is Darius, I've post it onto main thread

[zanth]

As civ picking has started, it's time to think what one to choose. Though I pick last, I probably won't have plenty of choice, but still.

Main priorities: good starting techs, good UU, good UB
As for techs priorities are mining for BW, Agri, hunting for AH
I don't think civs w/ good UU would be available, so what's about UB: there are 3 civs w/ UU of courthouse, that would synergy w/ Org trait: they are Aztecs, HRE and Sumers. The last one have better starting techs, but I don't think I would gave too much benefit from their Ziggurat 45 too 60 hammers isn't too good. And I'm not sure is early CH too important.

Zulu is an intresting variant, barracks which reduce maintance + Org + Fin would grant me great economic advantage. Still, maybe there would be more intresting unclaimed variants.

[zanth]

Strange. Slowcheetah picked Netherlands, while Native Americans are present.
And lots of people choose fishing civs. -> lots of water starts

[zanth]

- Zanth - Darius I of ???
- flugauto - Mansa Musa of ???
- Jowy - Huayna Capac of Zulu
- yuris125 - Suryavarman II of France
- Catwalk - Elizabeth of England
- BaII - Victoria of Sumeria
- Sian - Mehmed II of Egypt
- Slowcheetah - Isabella of Netherlands
- Furungy - Ragnar of Rome
- Azza - Louis of China
- Nakor - Bismarck of Persia
- 2metraninja - Rameses II of Mali

HRE suits fine, though I'm not sure about how bad starting techs are.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

HRE suits fine, though I'm not sure about how bad starting techs are.

HRE = Hunting/Mysticism. That's objective. How bad is that? That's subjective, so I won't say much there unless you have specific questions.

[zanth]

I think starting position is good enough for growing to size 2, and then producing worker and settler. If settling on a plain hill worker would be in 12 turns. Science won't catch them, it would just stay and do nothing. So a civ w/ better tech is needed, alas. I'd wish to try such a combo

Now thinking about Ethiopia or Babylon

[zanth]

well, noone started w/ myst. I could perhaps think on it

[zanth]

If I would be absent:

pass
pb17baby

So, where to settle and where to move scout? It seems the best way is to settle plain hill

[zanth]

Yo-ho-ho


and after scout

[zanth]

Btw, any ideas on naming theme?