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I have recently rediscovered the joys of CivII after a few years of not playing. Back when I was playing a few years ago, I had no problem playing at Prince level (surprise, surprise), but King routinely gave me troubles.
In the past few weeks, I have started playing again at the Prince level, which gives me no problems at all. I have just stepped up to King, and figured I would post my current game log for all to see and comment.
=== begin game log ===
Normal sized world, King difficulty, raging hordes, standard rules, playing as the Americans.
Game start: I get irrigation, mining, roads (duh), alphabet and code of laws!
[1] 4000 BC: Lykaon looks across the plains towards a distant river delta, "There is where I shall settle and build my empire."
Start at coordinates (93,31), about mid-latitude north of the equator. We have a single settler
, but he is next to a river, with wheat, forests, some ocean, desert, and plains within his view. Two river tiles are shielded grassland.
Settler moves northeast to river. Next turn will move to mouth of river and found first city.
[2] 3950 BC: "If we are to keep this village as our own, we must be prepared to defend it with our lives."
Washington founded at mouth of river and begins building warriors.
[3] 3900 BC: "We cannot just leave dead bodies lying around all over the place. Figure out something to do with them... have a ceremony or something."
Ceremonial Burial research started.
[4-6] 3850-3750 BC: "We're sorry, our chief is... indisposed... at the moment."
Zzzzzz...
[7] 3700 BC: "Wow, that burial idea really took off. Maybe I should claim divine inspriation and lead these people. Hey! Yeah, you guys with the stone axes! Why don't you go see what's beyond this river delta instead of hitting each other all the time... see where all this water comes from."
Ceremonial Burial research complete. Monarchy research started.
Warriors produced at Washington. Warriors begin exploring upriver.
[8] 3650 BC:
Warriors explore river. River is very short. Hut in forest adjacent to river headwaters, which we ignore for now. Headwaters seem like a decent place for city site #2 (on river, access to shielded grassland, 2 turns by river to reach capital). Warrior production in Washington switched to settlers. Washington is undefended!!!
[9] 3600 BC:
Warriors exploring headwaters. Settlers in production.
[10] 3550 BC:
Warriors continue exploring westwards. Weat nearby. Ocean to west.
=== turns 11 to 20 follow ===
I have recently rediscovered the joys of CivII after a few years of not playing. Back when I was playing a few years ago, I had no problem playing at Prince level (surprise, surprise), but King routinely gave me troubles.
In the past few weeks, I have started playing again at the Prince level, which gives me no problems at all. I have just stepped up to King, and figured I would post my current game log for all to see and comment.
=== begin game log ===
Normal sized world, King difficulty, raging hordes, standard rules, playing as the Americans.
Game start: I get irrigation, mining, roads (duh), alphabet and code of laws!
[1] 4000 BC: Lykaon looks across the plains towards a distant river delta, "There is where I shall settle and build my empire."
Start at coordinates (93,31), about mid-latitude north of the equator. We have a single settler
, but he is next to a river, with wheat, forests, some ocean, desert, and plains within his view. Two river tiles are shielded grassland. Settler moves northeast to river. Next turn will move to mouth of river and found first city.
[2] 3950 BC: "If we are to keep this village as our own, we must be prepared to defend it with our lives."
Washington founded at mouth of river and begins building warriors.
[3] 3900 BC: "We cannot just leave dead bodies lying around all over the place. Figure out something to do with them... have a ceremony or something."
Ceremonial Burial research started.
[4-6] 3850-3750 BC: "We're sorry, our chief is... indisposed... at the moment."
Zzzzzz...
[7] 3700 BC: "Wow, that burial idea really took off. Maybe I should claim divine inspriation and lead these people. Hey! Yeah, you guys with the stone axes! Why don't you go see what's beyond this river delta instead of hitting each other all the time... see where all this water comes from."
Ceremonial Burial research complete. Monarchy research started.
Warriors produced at Washington. Warriors begin exploring upriver.
[8] 3650 BC:
Warriors explore river. River is very short. Hut in forest adjacent to river headwaters, which we ignore for now. Headwaters seem like a decent place for city site #2 (on river, access to shielded grassland, 2 turns by river to reach capital). Warrior production in Washington switched to settlers. Washington is undefended!!!
[9] 3600 BC:
Warriors exploring headwaters. Settlers in production.
[10] 3550 BC:
Warriors continue exploring westwards. Weat nearby. Ocean to west.
=== turns 11 to 20 follow ===
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