RB Ffh2 PBEM 1-Cull

[Cull]

Planned second city:


Seems pretty good, and the best spot in the close area from what I can see. Area between me and Sareln is just plains with an ancient tower.

[Ilios]

That's a lot of jungle...

[athlete4life10]

That's a lot of jungle...

It is...but mining allows clear-cutting of both forests and jungle (I think). So a few more workers in order. And there's some grassland ready to cottage already. Just need to defog it slightly better.

[darrelljs]

Bronze Working is required to chop jungle.

Darrell

[Cull]

Yeah. I thought that jungle was forest, and thus a great spot.

Seeing as there is no "YEAH, GREAT SPOT FTW" that I can see close to me that isn't covered in jungle, I'm thinking produce the settler, and then spam warriors until the barb threat is over. That one nasty barb guy with 6(7?) str.

[Maksim]

Hi!

I'm hoping to do some analysis of the players' positions in this game, and to do so, it would be nice to have some comparable figures. Turn 50 (a nice round figure) is up and coming soon, so could you upload a few screenshots (city view and overall), and describe your situation at the end of it, please?

1) What are you building in your city\cities? What tiles are you working?
2) What is your current research and hammer potential?
3) Do you feel you have been affected much by Stasis? By River of Blood?
4) What techs have you researched so far?

Thanks a lot!

P.S. I'm posting this in every player's thread, by the way.

[Cull]

Thanks for the lurker questions of awesome.

When t50 rolls around, I'll be sure to answer those questions.

[athlete4life10]

Hi Cull,

I got your e-mail regarding planned 2nd city sites. I don't have time to take screen shots but here's my basic suggestion:

(in no particular order, all measurements from capital)

5S - Gets Banana x2, and Wheat I think? Lots of jungle though...probably be a better 3rd city site. You could also place this 4S for some overlap, easier to defend...it loses the gems though.

2W2SW - Gets Banana and wheat I think and can share a couple tiles with the capital. 2nd ring will get a mana node. I have no idea how big a role mana plays...

1N3NW - gets a fish and a bunch of hills which is good for Khazahd right?

3SE - shares some tiles (rice being one of them), gets a cow (2nd ring I think) and there's a lot of forests for chopping, with hills for production. Also probably easier to defend once you get roads going...

My personal preference is the last one I think. 3SE of your capital gets you a cow resource and can grow quickly sharing the rice. It will probably be the easiest to get productive more quickly which for your early cities will be key!

If I have time I'll try and take some screenshots and do a dot map to become more familiar with it and may come up with something better for you. The spot to the N could be decent as well with all those hills!

One major point though...you still have a huge swath of land to your SW unexplored. You really need to get that immediate area defogged and could use slightly more defogged in your immediate N as well...You're making a semi-blind decision not having it defogged.

I hope that helps!

Athlete

[athlete4life10]

Hi Cull,

I've been reviewing the land a little bit and I've decided settling SW is probably the best decision for the 2nd city but I've changed my mind on the exact tile. I think founding 1S of that lake is going to be best (2SE,1E of capital - or 1W of cows). That puts the city on fresh water, can use the rice from the capital, has cows first ring, banana's 2nd and can utilize the 2 silks(?) I think that would otherwise go to waste. It also has a few mines it can use.

Further expansion should head S and W, sweeping up to the north, but again you'll have to get scouting again before more cities go up...

Athlete

/edit there's a screenshot at the top of this page that shows the area pretty well...

[athlete4life10]

Hey Cull,

Just logged into the game and saw the 2nd city was lost to Sareln but you're not at war? Can you give a brief update as to what happened?

Athlete