Egypt only 5 tiles away. What would you do here?

[couerdelion]

Originally posted by wodan11
Gold + pigs = tasty. Make sure you work that gold.

Obviously after working the pigs

Looking at things, it is a bit of a shame that you razed the second city. Could it have been an option to allow it to grow first and then take it, perhaps even leaving an archer sentry and sending your main force straight to the capital.

Odd that Egypt couldn’t link up horses by 1400 BC though. With pigs and gold in the fat cross I know exactly what my first build and research would have been if I were him/her. There seems no reason why Animals would be delayed here and with the UU, the horses would be linked almost immediately.

[batavier]

The second city was really new, so it auto-razed. Egypt seemed to prioritize hooking up the cities by road, so they hadn't started to improve any tiles around it yet. I rebuilt the city one tile to the north, to make the horses more safe.

Putting down a second city at 1600 BC, so after 60 turns seems really late. I haven't yet seen an AI being that slow in prince level. Must be the jungle, or maybe they had a settler killed.

If I try an axeman rush after hooking up copper with a second city, it will often be too late, there will be 3 cities up by then, I take the closest, and then a stalemat develops around the capital, while they keep on expanding elsewhere.

I once took a Chinese capital on Noble in 1400 with axemen. The city had only 2 archers and a worker. It had only pop 2 and no second city. This city had 4 goldmines around it!

[couerdelion]

Originally posted by batavier
This city had 4 goldmines around it!

This sounds like a "poor" city site because of the number of hills/plains tiles. Unless you have a lot of good food tiles, the gold mines can't all be worked.

[Theben]

Heh. One time my starting capital (MAdrid) had 3 gold, marble, 2 corn, and an iron in it's starting location. On top of plains/hills and with rivers winding around the whole thing.

[couerdelion]

Well I’ve had ice-bound start with sheep(1), marble(2), fur(5) in the capital’s fat cross before. All that land was plains with a lot of hills.

And I think that the sheep was on a plain hill (3/2/1)

A total waste!!

[wodan11]

That's the kind of start where you don't settle in place, you put on your backpack and go a-wandering.

Wodan

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Theben
Heh. One time my starting capital (MAdrid) had 3 gold, marble, 2 corn, and an iron in it's starting location. On top of plains/hills and with rivers winding around the whole thing.

I had something like that - except add a cows and a horses, and probably subtract one gold I think - in a MP game once ... and stone not too far away. And industrial/financial ...

Had to be the first MP game I was the wonder leader ... by a lot ... I think I built 80%+ of the wonders available (not of the wonders built, but total wonders) in that game. GPP

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by wodan11
That's the kind of start where you don't settle in place, you put on your backpack and go a-wandering.

Wodan

... to a new shadow where there are grasslands and floodplains.

[Jvstin]

Originally posted by Lord Avalon

... to a new shadow where there are grasslands and floodplains.

Good to see that there are other Zelazny fans here.

[Lord Avalon]

*walks to new shadow*

[wodan11]

I actually met him once. He impressed me a great deal.

Wodan

ps the Chronicles of Amber is one of my favorite series of all time. Siddartha, also, is plain and simple a masterwork.