First is Always the Best(spoilers BaII)

[BaII]

Turn 7
HOUSTON WE HAVE CONTACT!!!!


We met our first player Dhal, Who is in the northern portion of the map. Note that Dtay has 6 less points then the rest of the field. I believe he is going for Bronze Working which generally takes roughly the same amount of time it takes for a worker to get completed, with ours being completed next turn, and being on a PH I believe that his score will jump to 38 in the next 2 turns. Once worker completes, he's going to go camp the deer tile, then pasture the sheep tile.

[BaII]

Also what in the world is Dhal talking about. Just noticed he has 8 pages worth of posts. It's only been 7 turns into the game.....

[BaII]

Turn 8

Worker Completed and is going to camp the deers tile. Building a warrior to grow to size 2 before I start another Worker, which will soon follow with a settler. Also I am going with deers tile now as sheep tile won't cut down on the time it takes for AH to come in, and the deer tile shaves 1 turn off the warrior.

[BaII]

Turn 13



Scout is exploring around, my cap is at sz 2 and is currently working on a worker. A settler will come afterwards for second city. Instead of Pottery I choose BW next to speed up my growth curve and let me whip stuff out. Probably cap the capital at size 2 after the settler with another worker. Maybe get a second warrior by growing to size 3, and putting that extra pop point into a farm.

[Qgqqqqq]

I think a bit of growth would help.
Can you show the city/second city spot?

[BaII]

I think the second city would be in a good place where the sign says 1 left of where it is placed. First ring corn plus it can share deer with the capital. The city spot on the coast is really good except that it destroys a forest and everything is in 2nd ring.



I have a warrior going to explore the southern regions.

[Qgqqqqq]

Yeah that looks good. Why 1 left?

[BaII]

So it doesn't destroy the forest. And it will still get horses in first border pop.

[Qgqqqqq]

I don't think thats worth the delay. Its just one forest, and means that you don't need any culture for a while.

[BaII]

Turn 20

So here is what my scouting warriors have shown me. Down in the South


I plan to settle the 4 food bonus city as my 3rd city. As some of the food bonuses cannot be obtained yet and their are some higher priority cities right now.



As you can see I moved the 1st city I wanted to plant 1 left because I have just discovered a Grassland Cow which would be unusable if I had decided to move it 1 left. Now the Second city I decided to plant would be the ones sharing the fish and the Gold tile. I will be going for a religion immediately after Pottery so hopefully I can have the Holy City be there. Is there a mechanism that prevents your captial from being the Holy City after you have founded some cities? Regardless though hopefully I can get a lucky spread into there after I see my Holy City. Although does anyone know the formula for calculating the chances of a religion to naturally spread to a city?

As an ending I will show u guys the turn 20 Demo's.


I am currently very satisfied with how well I am doing. Top food count and top GNP despite not being creative is also a nice sign. Although I am "4th" place MFG. This isn't that big of deal since I am at the average and the top MFG person is only 1 above. One question though. How does the prerequisite bonus's for discovering techs work? I believe for every prerequisite tech I have the tech am i currently researching is 20% cheaper. But is it the same thing on normal speed?