The strategy for the next turns

[Frozzy]

I second Maq. Forest/River is always a great combination, and that hill + mountain have some great production just waiting to be taken.

I'm not used to CtP2 graphics (blame CtP1), but I'm assuming that that is grassland in between the swamp and hills, so some good growth there.

I think it may be a gamble to settle on the forest, but it seems it could be the best place for now

[Locutus]

I think we should first go to the River+Plains tile in the west to check out what terrain lies to the west (it's green so it ain't desert but it could still be a lot of other things). If it's good, go further west. If not, settle on the Forest: good production and defense, both of which will be very useful in fending off the Barbs early on (with still at least 3 river tiles, a Plains and a Grassland tile in the immediate radius).

Initial production should be 3 Warriors (2 for recon, 1 for defense) followed by a Settler (by the time the Settler's done Barbs will already be lurking so building the Settler earlier won't help much 'cause we'll need an escort).

Science-wise, Bronze Working and Ballistics are the most important in the defense against the Barbs. I say let's go for Ballistics first (and possibly early strikes against other AIs).

[Pedrunn]

Originally posted by Locutus
I think we should first go to the River+Plains tile in the west to check out what terrain lies to the west (it's green so it ain't desert but it could still be a lot of other things). If it's good, go further west. If not, settle on the Forest: good production and defense.

I liked the idea.

I rather have the following order for the Build queue:
---->Warrior (recon until turn 15 than defense)
---->Warrior (to scout the settler)
---->Settler

I just think recon is suicide after turn 25-30. We should keep the warriors to explore along with settlers.

Ballista should come first we need ranged or flanker units the sooner to improve our stacked combat power.

[HuangShang]

Originally posted by Locutus
The saved games thread is not for strategy discussions so I moved the off-topic posts from that thread here.

makes it look confusing though

i agree w/ the forest then plains thing

and Pedrunn until the part where the first warrior stays outside and the second one can immediately fortify( unless the scout becomes a vet)

[Martin Gühmann]

I think we should go first on the plains and then on the forest so we have our first two moves on the first turn, second turn should be the founding of the city on the forest tile. So we have a good place and we know a little bit more about our surroundings. If we max out the production we should have two warriors at turn 15. Then the settler in our city so that we can found our second city that can produce the units while the first city builds the Ramajana.

For science: I agree we need archers, so that we can improve our armies.

-Martin

[HuangShang]

the move onto plain part i agree, since we'll be able to see the green area and decide where to go from there

archers are very important , and the writing after it so we can get a better gov

[Ãskallin]

hey a simple and good orders for Pedrunn go west and see whats there and waste max 3-4 turns in finding a good spot. Then report to the forum

And slave labor is important when you start preying on those innocent 1-2 stacks of barbarians

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by Ãskallin
hey a simple and good orders for Pedrunn go west and see whats there and waste max 3-4 turns in finding a good spot. Then report to the forum

I think we should settle on turn 3 at the very latest, we need as many warriors as we can get before the barbarians start coming and we have a good river so theres no reason why we can settle on the second turn.

[Dinner]

I'm with Maq. Settle next turn and start building warriors.

[HuangShang]

now that the new map is in we'll go farther west and check it out

i hope the ocean's not too far

[Ãskallin]

HuangShang: No one is promitted to play forward in the game

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by HuangShang
now that the new map is in we'll go farther west and check it out

i hope the ocean's not too far

Actually in SAP the ocean isnt a great source of resources anymore, no production. But we should still settle by the sea, the more harbours we have the more ships we can build, but maybe concentrate on settling inland first.

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by Maquiladora
Actually in SAP the ocean isnt a great source of resources anymore, no production. But we should still settle by the sea, the more harbours we have the more ships we can build, but maybe concentrate on settling inland first.

Yeah inland settling is a better idea, because we don't have an idea when the river ends and if we are moving to the right end. So it is better to settle inland first and concentrate on building warriors settlers and the Ramajana. As we need a tile that provide us with a lot of production for the start settle on the jungle tile in the northeast.

-Martin

[HuangShang]

Originally posted by Ãskallin
HuangShang: No one is promitted to play forward in the game

who played forward, we just moved west

[Ãskallin]

HuangShang: i misread youpost
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