[Civ4] 2nd Succession game

Alright, I'll go with the original 38 turns, since that seems what people would like me to do.

We all know that Team Liquid is the greatest website in the world, so it is only fitting that we embark on a mission to dominate the World, either by military might, cunning diplomacy, or simply shooting ourselves away from the hell hole that the random map generator has given us. It doesn't matter how, but at the end we must stand victorious.

This is our settings:


A very standard layout at prince level

Here's our start:



Sitting Bull... Protectionist and philosophical, a pretty bad Unique Building IMO and an interesting Unique Unit. Not exactly what I was hoping for. I hate archers and I almost never build any, and here we're stuck with a UB that along with the protectionist trait gives us pretty scary archers, that I never build. Oh well, I'm sure we'll manage.

I decide to move my warrior north since this is most likely to reveal new terrain that would have any influence my decision on where to settle. As is turns out my worker spotted a source of marble, which will add some production to our city, as well as enable us to go for some wonders that we would otherwise not have attempted to build. The terrain to our east looked kind of dull and seeing how there's a river flowing north-west from our capital, I decide to move our settler 1 west and settle on the first turn. as the city was created I see that we've hit the jackpot and gotten corn within our Big Fat Cross (and a complimentary hut!):


I begin construction of a worker in Cahokia and begin researching animal husbandry so that we can start working the cows (we started with aggriculture). Once Cahokia's borders expanded and popped the hut we received a pretty useful map of the lands to our south. Our warrior is first sent farther up north to scout things out, where he finds a hut that pops us 142 minerals (that's our currency right?), but once I ran into some desert and desert hills I changed direction and sent him over west, where he managed to find some pretty promising land and another inviting hut. But alas! Those villagers didn't seem to like being visited by the friendly Native American folk and decided to rebel:


Well crap! our warrior fell to the barbarian horde, but not before taking down one of their warriors. I think this is also where I realised that we were playing on prince difficulty since I've never seen barbarians pop from a hut on noble before.
In 3550 BC we finished researching animal husbandry and started working on mining, which will take us 9 turns to research


In 3425 BC our worker finished and I sent him over to farm our corn. Construction of a worker is begun next. Some people might have switched over to producing that warrior right when they popped those barbarians, but I'm pretty sure that they won't come knocking on our door any time soon and just hang out in that general area.


In 3325 BC we finished researching mining and work was begun on bronze working, to whip out those settler, workers, warriors and, well everything, extra fast. We'll also be able to get some really fast dog soldiers out, which should come in very handy


on turn 33 our worker finishes farming the corn and is sent over to work the closest cow. Early game sure is dull when you don't have a scout

In 3050 our warrior is completed and this is where I decided to end it off:


The world as we know it:


We have a decent amount of ressources in the sorrounding land and the area where I popped the barbarians from the hut looks really nice. Our biggest problem at this point is probably our lack of intelligense. I lost the warrior relatively early and so we don't know nearly enough about sorroundings, although we did get kind of lucky with that map, which is something that's pretty rare to see. An actual useful map... Never happens.

So, what should we build next? What should we do with our warrior? What should we ressearch after bronze working finishes? Where should we put our next city? (or cities?)

Personally I'd probably begin working on a barracks to grow the city to size 3 and then switch production over to a settler, and then switch production over again to a dog soldier once bronze working finishes. The dog soldier is whipped as soon as possible and production goes back to a settler, which is of course also whipped as soon as possible.
I'd say the best city site is up to the north-west with the pig, floodplains and hills. The problem with this site if of course that we know there will be at least 2 barbarian warriors up there, so sending a single warrior as an escort to that site is out of the question.

Anyways, now the game is going and I hope I didn't make anyone cringe too bad with my decision making.

The save

I hope this site works. I just googled file upload.