[PB79 ricketyclik player/dedlurker thread] Monarch of the Glen

[ricketyclik]

Ok, I went with your suggestion.

Here's the latest screen shot. Open to suggestions for next city placements. I'm going for that one you originally suggested to the north next.

Also some general advice regarding tile improvements and chopping would be good.

[superdeath]

Cottage on (floodplains always) RIVER grassland tiles. Then river plains if u have enough food for it, then grassland, then plains. Generally cottage everything in cities that dont have alot of hills, and the hill cities (with food) get barracks. Mines in hill cities, windmills in cities that have mostly grassland/cottage areas. Ill probably try and login sometime tonight and place some signs. You are free to ignore them/ect. ALT S will remove the sign/place a sign. Alt X will remove/place a city BFC for placement.

Generally, you want to chop grassland forests first, followed by any other forest that isnt a hill forest. JUST incase you wish to use the Hill forest extra hammer for some use. ALSO, that forested banana tile.. dont chop until we have Calendar.

IF you have vision/barb protection around the area, i would whip the settler WHEN you can, and have the 2nd city be stealing the Rice until its own rice is completed.

If a more knowledgeable global lurker wants to chime in anytime i say something that HURTS ricky's ability to play well... please do. Cuz it probably would help me as well

[civac2]

Sometimes it's useful to leave forests for a wonder. I also found that once granaries are up, chopping is comparatively inefficient and only use it to clear tiles or for special projects (wonders, key infrastructure). Conversely, chopping into granaries is very good.

[greenline]

Don't sleep on flatland lumbermills either. It takes some time to get to metal casting to unlock them, but for midgame cities the 2/3/1 tiles are very powerful.

[ricketyclik]

Found China



Who is Lieu-Ye anyway? What are their traits?

[superdeath]

Found China



Who is Lieu-Ye anyway? What are their traits?

ORG/PRO iirc.

[Tarkeel]

Cottage on (floodplains always) RIVER grassland tiles. Then river plains if u have enough food for it, then grassland, then plains. Generally cottage everything in cities that dont have alot of hills, and the hill cities (with food) get barracks. Mines in hill cities, windmills in cities that have mostly grassland/cottage areas.

Sometimes you need to farm rivers (even the floodplains), but if possible they should be cottaged. In general try to figure out if a city is going to do commerce or production. Commerce cities get multiplier buildings like libraries and markets, while hammer cities gets barracks and forge. (Incidentally, this is one of the benefits of INDustrious: You can afford to build forges everywhere and not just hammer cities)

Generally, you want to chop grassland forests first, followed by any other forest that isnt a hill forest. JUST incase you wish to use the Hill forest extra hammer for some use. ALSO, that forested banana tile.. dont chop until we have Calendar.

To expand on what civac said, don't chop a forest just because you can but make sure it's worth it. Granaries are usually worth chopping into, and in the early game culture buildings and workers/settlers to feed the snowball. Save the forests that you can, both for chopping into special projects as well as lumbermills which come pretty early in CtH and are great tiles. Bananaforest is one of my favorite tiles as it gives you so many options on how to approach it: wait for plantation or lumbermill or extra-food cottage are some of the opportunities.

IF you have vision/barb protection around the area, i would whip the settler WHEN you can, and have the 2nd city be stealing the Rice until its own rice is completed.

Expanding on this, remember that barbs can not spawn on a tile you can see, or anywhere within 2 tiles of an existing unit. It's possible to make large areas safe from barb using strategically placed units.

[superdeath]

Any update?

[ricketyclik]

[Tarkeel]

It's hard to tell from the image, but what kind of barbarian is incoming?