Post your terrible start and 4000 BC save Here

[tiongkiat]

For those who want an emperor level challenging start

Here's a random Emperor level start with Alexander.

[tiongkiat]

Picture of the start

Here's a picture of the start. I didn't see a way of attaching both a small JPG as well as the savegame in the same post.

[mutax2003]

Looks alright, with all those grasslands, it would be prime GP farming city. If you can get representation via pyramid (either build it yourself or capture it), then you can focus on high food and high production, and should do fairly well as the alpha war-monger in the game.

[couerdelion]

I'd be tempted to send the scout east to see if they were any useful tiles further down the coast.

Settling to one tile to the west of the settler would get you a coast/river start which can be very useful. If you get yourself a sea resource then a quick work boat will help your early game fly.

It would be interesting to see what was in or around the fat cross. There’s bound to be some resource there.

[mutax2003]

Anyone want to play the above posted emperor game, and show step-by-step how you progress through the game? It would be instructive to compare notes afterward. I will get to this game as soon as I have some free time. By the way, feel free to try my Egypian highland game posted previously, with poor terrain, it will feel harder than a typical emperor game.