Demigod - play-a-long strategy

[Krill]

I will probably palace jump later in the game, but that will only be after I have taken over the Egyptian lands, and I have built the FP somewhere.


And, IMHO, that is not crowded. That is 3 tile spacing, which is very efficient in C3, but incudes a camp that spews out 4 turn settlers and 2 turn workers under despotism. I would keep it like that even if it looks crowded., because it is efficient.

[Aqualung71]

Just to keep the interest up in this thread, dropping by to say I've been playing this one on and off. Rather haphazardly without enough attention to MM, which is critical when you've got so much bonus food around....and a pretty dangerous attitude to apply to any Demi-God game, but I'm doing ok.

This has been my greatest war-mongering game ever! I built masses of Horsemen and attacked the Egyptians, since they had "my" Iron resource. Halfway through the war I had a Horseman Army and a Swordsman Army and an MGL built FP. I then proceeded to take them out entirely and banished their capital to a tundra island.

Intermittent wars with the Ottomans also occurred, since they seemed to think they were entitled to take my techs for free.

Anyway, all the gaps are filled up and the continent is being shared between the French and the Ottomans. Joan is now planning her stragety to remove the Ottoman threat before the Sipahi appear!

I think I'm up to 450AD. Screenshots next time I load up!

[nbarclay]

This looked like a nice starting position for a Demigod game, so I decided to give it a try. I founded Paris by the starting position and immediately started irrigating cattle. The hut by the starting position gave me a warrior, who went exploring to the north (since the starting position was on the southern edge of the map).

I started with a settler-granary pattern in my capital, but I probably didn't do a very good job picking a site for my second city. The good thing about Orleans was that I could get a good growth rate in both my initial cities irrigating only two of the capital tiles and leaving improvement for the other two high-food tiles for later. The bad - very bad - thing about it was that Orleans outgrew its production very quickly in spie of my having it build a worker before it started a granary. I probably would have gotten a better balance building my second city where I ended up putting Lyons, my third city. The other likely better option would have been to build a second worker in Orleans before starting the granary so I could do a better job keeping up in improved tiles.

When I met Egypt, I considered going ahead and trading Alphabet to them but I decided to wait until I met someone else. My conscript warrior blundered around a bit, popping three huts in the process (two barb huts and one with 25 gold) and finally headed the right direction to meet the Ottomans. At that point, I traded Alphabet to the Ottomans for The Wheel and 109 gold and to Egypt for the working of Bronze and a handful of gold. (I was more concerned about accumulating gold for future research than about getting as many techs as possible out of Alphabet.)

As of 2150 BC, I have three cities and am about ready to found a fourth. Once I get going, my plan is for Paris and Lyons to be settler pumps sharing the three cattle tiles and Orleans to be a three-turn worker pump using the wheat. (For two 4-turn pumps with three cattle, I'll end up with a huge micromanagement headache moving laborers back and forth every turn or two, but I'm willing to do such things for a little extra efficiency.) My fourth city will build at least a couple warriors for anti-barbarian and military police duty before starting on its granary. (I tend to like having granaries in all my early cities.)

[Dominae]

Krill, you have two 4-turn Settler pumps, but no Worker-pumps? Where are the Workers coming from, newly-founded cities?

[Krill]

Yeah, some come from the new cities, others from the settler pumps. The reason for not building as many workers is that I want as much land settled asap. I don't have that much land available, and I really need the cities to support the future army that I am about to build.


And, yes, I do know that i should have irrigated the 3rd cow and wheat. I am just a little to tired at the moent to do that extra MM. When I have settled all the land that I can, then the pumps will start churning out hte workers. Later on Orleans will become a one turn worker pump, and Lyons a 2 turn pump. With this in mind the FP will likely go in Rheims, with a palace jump later. If some prime land comes up (IE I completely conquer the Egyptions, then I will shut down Rheims and rebuild the FP in a better position even later via a prebuild)

[Aqualung71]

Any more on this one, Krilly?

[punkbass2000]

Here's a nice start for a demigod game as Celts. It's with the AU mod, though, but I'm of the impression that everyone participating in this thread often plays with it anyway.

[punkbass2000]

And the start:

[Jon Shafer]

Wheat, flood plains and an AGR civ?

Too easy.

[punkbass2000]

Well, I did post it because it's such a swheat start.