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Old 07-10-2009, 04:00   #3
akots
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Start is not that brilliant but at least we have ivory. No other nice fancy stuff unfortunately, no gold, silver, furs, and whatever. Here is pic of start and the second pic is after moving all the starting units.






For now, there are two basic options: Build capital on ivory (gets nice access to flood plains) and second city on rice and cows. Another option is move locations to places with two question marks. The capital will get cow, but loses production bonus on ivory and the second city gets only rice. I also popped 79g from the hut.

Both possibilities leave decent amount of forest to chop in the city borders. It might be also worth thinkin about settling on hill plains after scouting more map in the beginning of next turn but IMO, that would keep the cities too far apart from each other and hard to connect rapidly.

The map is not very filled in with resources unlike the previous game, so some copper or iron should be very close by as well as horses. It is not very rich but it is OK considering that other players also get something similar. It has considerable food after irrigation of flood plains and not bad production after mining hills.
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