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Looks like you should settle where you are right away. Moving the worker to the mountain will cost you a couple turns. Start the mine earlier and get your warrior out scouting sooner.
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Mountain Sage,
Here's my two cents on that start:
Unless your settler is standing on a stoney plain, then building where you are is pretty much your only option:
- Bonus food from the cattle is the best resource to get your grainary built and get some settlers to more hospitable climes
- Looks like the 23(?) is tundra (down one and right one)
- Doesn't look like there are any bonus food squares in the ocean squares
- Set research to Pottery and pump to 90%
Having the cattle there is your salvation. Build queue would be Warrior-Worker-Warrior-Barracks? (prebuild for the granary).
Anyone else have any ideas, because this looks eirily familiar to most of the starts I get in SP.
D."Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck,
leads the flock to fly and follow"
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I'd move the Worker to the Cattle, and if any Fish or Whales show up out of the current city site range, perhaps move the Settler 4 so as to have access to them.Comment
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Is crying allowed?Comment
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No need to cry... just plan on moving your Palace at some point.The greatest delight for man is to inflict defeat on his enemies, to drive them before him, to see those dear to them with their faces bathed in tears, to bestride their horses, to crush in his arms their daughters and wives.
Duas uncias in puncta mortalis est.Comment
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Crying is definitely an option here. This is a much more difficult start than Mountain Sage's last posted game!
My 2 cents - I moved the worker south-west to the shielded grassland to see what else was around....and it yielded crap. In this situation I didn't see much point in moving the worker to the mountain for a better view as it would have taken too long for the settler to get there. I then plonked down the town as is.Last edited by Aqualung71; January 16, 2004, 03:36.So if you meet me have some courtesy, have some sympathy and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse, or I'll lay your soul to waste
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vmxa,
Sorry, crying is not allowed. You can only play.
This was the very first location I got, and it suited me well, for two reasons.
First of all, the Viking originated from a cold land and I wanted the same in this game (ok, they're down the south pole this time).
Then, I wanted a more difficult game in terms of strategy, without going up a level -yet-: a difficult start and only 1 victory possible (domination). I even made it more difficult for myself by not moving my Palace from this start and by keeping the FP on the same island.
2 turns/settler, 0,5 turns/worker pumps are getting a little
The Mountain Sage of the Swiss AlpsComment
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Looking forward to your post and screenies. I know you have great fortitude.Comment
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