"Don't move or the bunny gets it" - German Joey plays Cyrus the Virus of Khmer

[GermanJoey]

Moved my scout. Very nice. Looks like there's coast below the floodplains, to match the coast to the north. Very typical setup for 44% water Torusland maps I've found.



Now the question.......... DO I SETTLE ON THE COW ?!??? *crowd starts hootin' and hollerin'*

[GermanJoey]

The answer is...................... No! *crowd boos its lungs out, a fat guy in the back row belches out "Go ta hell youse Fuggin Looser!"*



The infamous Noble's Club SOTC maneuver doesn't work here. We have hunting/mining as our starting techs and want AH ASAP anyways, and AH would finish way after our 9 turn worker. Besides, the cow is farmable, and a particularly strong tile for an Imperialistic leader anyways.

Looks like we were the only team that settled on Turn 1. I guess no other team had a grassland forest mine just outside of their starting BFC!

[aki]

Is that from your sim or from the game? I want to know the city naming scheme!

Also what's with the mystery fort SW of your capital?

[WilliamLP]

Joey seems like the kind of guy who would just use the Civ default names.

[GermanJoey]

I forgot to change the city name when I founded it. You'll have to wait until I get home!

The fort is there for the same reason as the forest hills mine - we're playing with the Torusland map script with the "Scattered Improvments" setting. A random improvement, not necessarily even an appropriate one for the tile (e.g. you can find a plains camp with no resource, which does nothing), is randomly placed every ~20 tiles outside of a 3-radius from my starting settler. So, I can find some cool stuff like that mine, some useless stuff like that fort, and sometimes some stuff to raze (like random hamlets or villages) for some $$$.

[GermanJoey]

Ugh. Looks like we're in some sort of BS "duel" scenario. That's Haram's scout there. His capital has got to be super close to mine and I'm sure I just moved away from a first-ring copper that every player started with. FML. Guess I won't be REXing much at all eh?

[GermanJoey]

Haram is fucking Ragnar of Mongolia, an incredible combo for horse archer rushing. Ugh.

[GermanJoey]

weird fucking setup.

[GermanJoey]

i'm really torn as to whether i scout him, to see what resources he has hooked up as i develop techs, or if i scout myself, to see what resources i have where (which will inform what i tech/build early). decisions, decisions.

[GermanJoey]

Ultimately, I decided that its more important to know whether he has horses (since he went hunting/wheel, he can have chariots up super early) rather than if I do. If he has horses and I don't, I can try to control the chokepoint with spears by getting BW after AH, whereas if he doesn't have horses I can try a more peaceful vertical expansion towards pottery after AH. It's also important to know exactly how many tiles our capitals are apart.