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As everyone knows by now, we have traded world maps and we now have revealed our entire continent, except for a few minor squares.
(Side note: we know of two other lands: One is near Greece, and Uber Isle of course)
We are less than half the size of most nations.
We have the worst starting position in all the world. I have NEVER seen one worse. We are in a vast jungle in the center of a continent with all but four of the civs.
When we least expect it, Zany Zulus and Angry Asians may drop some ICBMs in our general direction.
In short, we are practically doomed.
We will probably never be number 1. We will likely bite off more than we can chew at some point and find the Anal Aztecs up our throat, or some other nasty nation.
I will not be surprised if we are totally annihilated and lose the game.
There is only one way to make ourselves strong. We need to expand aggressively in every way. Take advantage of every... err...advantage! If Greece and Persia start fighting, get out of their way. See if they will pay for a ROP so they can fight more easily. (Well, they wouldn't need it NOW)
I suspect this Demo game will be the greatest civ challenge any of us has ever had. And unlike a normal civ game, we cannot just 'give up.'
Okay, here comes more general proposals.
We must expand both by war and by...not war. First, we beat up the Avaricious Americans and get the iron in the incense valley. Not to mention the incense! With America out of our way, we immediately start to prepare another army for our next target, probably France. BTW, I am not normally a warmonger. As we prepare for war, we hook up both the incense and the dye. That way, we can support 2 more people in each city. I say we try to fill out the jungle with cities and massive worker gangs in between wars. We are sitting on top of really good land, buried under a horrid jungle. Once we have Democracy and Replacable Parts (
) we can easily clear it out and have an insta-empire... but that is in the long-term.
We must fight 2 wars. Take America and then smite the Frisky French.
Then we play the AI against each other.
We will have a decent amount of land then, though nothing great.
We will be a buffer state. We will be in between Greece and Persia. As long as we are not fools, we can keep the peace and try to control them. Hem them in. Make them fight over the jungle.
The Great Rift is the most powerful land barrier we can have. With it, we can isolate the four nations on the Great Plains of the Southern Peninsula isolated. The land, IIRC, is very grassland heavy and hill scarce.
This next part is a bit of a stretch...
The nations down there will have only the rare hills and abundant, though far from wonderful, grassland shields to work with for shields. They have little defense. I propose that after the war with France, we make those plains turn red with blood. Use our Knights (or Horseman, if we are still in the Dark Ages) to take those nations out. Those plains can support huge cities. Let us take them.
Ugh, that was horribly incoherent. Try to decipher it. There are 2/3 main parts:
1. The 1st part consists of facts
2. The second is a commentary
3. And the third is a horrible plan, which I will call... Case... Oh, I don't know. It will be shot down anyway.
(Side note: we know of two other lands: One is near Greece, and Uber Isle of course)
We are less than half the size of most nations.
We have the worst starting position in all the world. I have NEVER seen one worse. We are in a vast jungle in the center of a continent with all but four of the civs.
When we least expect it, Zany Zulus and Angry Asians may drop some ICBMs in our general direction.
In short, we are practically doomed.
We will probably never be number 1. We will likely bite off more than we can chew at some point and find the Anal Aztecs up our throat, or some other nasty nation.
I will not be surprised if we are totally annihilated and lose the game.
There is only one way to make ourselves strong. We need to expand aggressively in every way. Take advantage of every... err...advantage! If Greece and Persia start fighting, get out of their way. See if they will pay for a ROP so they can fight more easily. (Well, they wouldn't need it NOW)
I suspect this Demo game will be the greatest civ challenge any of us has ever had. And unlike a normal civ game, we cannot just 'give up.'
Okay, here comes more general proposals.
We must expand both by war and by...not war. First, we beat up the Avaricious Americans and get the iron in the incense valley. Not to mention the incense! With America out of our way, we immediately start to prepare another army for our next target, probably France. BTW, I am not normally a warmonger. As we prepare for war, we hook up both the incense and the dye. That way, we can support 2 more people in each city. I say we try to fill out the jungle with cities and massive worker gangs in between wars. We are sitting on top of really good land, buried under a horrid jungle. Once we have Democracy and Replacable Parts (
) we can easily clear it out and have an insta-empire... but that is in the long-term.We must fight 2 wars. Take America and then smite the Frisky French.
Then we play the AI against each other.
We will have a decent amount of land then, though nothing great.
We will be a buffer state. We will be in between Greece and Persia. As long as we are not fools, we can keep the peace and try to control them. Hem them in. Make them fight over the jungle.
The Great Rift is the most powerful land barrier we can have. With it, we can isolate the four nations on the Great Plains of the Southern Peninsula isolated. The land, IIRC, is very grassland heavy and hill scarce.
This next part is a bit of a stretch...
The nations down there will have only the rare hills and abundant, though far from wonderful, grassland shields to work with for shields. They have little defense. I propose that after the war with France, we make those plains turn red with blood. Use our Knights (or Horseman, if we are still in the Dark Ages) to take those nations out. Those plains can support huge cities. Let us take them.
Ugh, that was horribly incoherent. Try to decipher it. There are 2/3 main parts:
1. The 1st part consists of facts
2. The second is a commentary
3. And the third is a horrible plan, which I will call... Case... Oh, I don't know. It will be shot down anyway.
). hoplites as as good defense as musketeers, so think of it that way. knights will do also, if we have enough, but we might not be able to spare them. 
!!
. I have to say it is better than my strategy of pumping out as many settlers, spearmen, and temples as possible. The Iriquois are sxcrewed unless they expand quickly into the Northeast, and Babylonia is going to be bottled in between Russia and Rome. Speaking of which, we might want to keep an eye on the two R's. Perhaps are war between Russia and France and would be nice (don't get Rome in on the action though, they have iron which means legions).
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