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    Oookay... if I can't win this one I'll have to hang my head in shame.

    Playing as the Germans, on a large custom continents map with all 18 civs, Monarch level.

    My capital's city radius contains:

    A short river surrounded by grasslands.
    A coastline, with two clams.
    Lots of forest for chopping.
    Two plains/hills tiles.
    A banana.
    And FOUR GEMS, all on the grasslands (two of them next to the river).
    (Also a Horses tile shows up with Animal Domestication).

    To top it all off I have four other civs on the same continent BUT adequate room for expansion (with some good resources, too, and lots more forest for my lumberjacks), and a neighbouring continent just visible so that I'll be able to get there by galleon soon enough.

    A mined grassland/gems tile yields 2 food, 1 hammer and 6 commerce (7 commerce if next to a river). And I start with mining so all I have to do is crank out a worker and I'm rich.

  • #2
    Post a save! I want to play this one too!

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    • #3
      That sounds like an interesting start
      This space is empty... or is it?

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      • #4
        That's ALL within the capital radius!?!? That's 8 specials (counting the horses). Hell, that start is good without any of the gems.

        That's a monster.

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        • #5
          Me want it. Badly. But not on monarch difficulity level. I barely get to win or barely get to loose on Noble ATM, so that would be suicide!
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          • #6
            Post the save, post the save, post the save!

            Think Monarch will be too hard for me too, but that can be changed! Or maybe that starting position will be enough...

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            • #7
              Okay, let's see if I can get this to work...
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              • #8
                In my current game I just took over an indian city, which had a nice place too (not as good as the mentioned starting position though). Out of the 8 surrounding tiles there were 6 dyes and 2 mountain pikes. The other tiles in the fat cross was nice too, but didn't have anything special
                This space is empty... or is it?

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                • #9
                  There's always something missing though.

                  Your list doesn't include stone or marble to speed up the wonders. I'd be looking for that next.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Leifmk
                    Okay, let's see if I can get this to work...
                    Thanks, Leifmk!

                    Indeed, a fantastic start!
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                    • #11
                      Surely you're surrounded by jungle?
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by johnmcd
                        Surely you're surrounded by jungle?
                        Nah.

                        There's a bit of jungle to the west/southwest (not really room for another city there anyway) and also to the east (the closest useful city site there is kind of jungle-clogged but may be worth grabbing for later anyway). Lots more jungle-free terrain to the north and northeast, as you will find when you explore a bit. It's only the Greeks down in the southeast who have crippling amounts of jungle.

                        I'm currently playing through this game and had the further insane luck to get Bronze Working from one of the first huts I popped, so was able to rush out settlers fast enough to grab the marble and stone sites in the middle and far east of the continent. Therefore I was also able to get the Pyramids AND the Oracle (for a successful CS Slingshot which turned my capital into a true monster). It's about 200 AD and I'm a few turns away from circumnavigating the globe; all my home-continent civs have shared in the benefits of Confucianism, unfortunately I'm in the middle of having to kill off the Greeks since they suicidally attacked me. So it goes. The rest are my buddies, even Tokugawa.

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