Adventure 4: Part 1
I think my goal here could be summed up as "Don't disgrace myself too badly". Which is a bit of a pathetic goal, but this is definitely out of my comfort zone!
After moving my warrior, I decided not to second guess the start position - I rather liked the look of all the floodplains - and so I founded Thebes right there in 4000BC:
I started off by building a Warrior for defence, and started to research Animal Husbandry to hook up the pigs. Shortly after, a hut gave me Animal Husbandry:
So I changed my research to Mining, followed by Bronze Working. While Mining was researched I started a second Warrior in Thebes, and Buddhism was founded somewhere else. My next hut pop (in 3560BC) was somewhat less lucky:
But I survived!
Thebes finished the second Warrior which was sent off to the south, and I finally started on a Worker. Next hut pop (in the south) is also lucky - I get a Scout. Who promptly runs into some bears and dies. Never mind, it's the thought that counts ;)
When Bronze Working is discovered I start to research Pottery and anxiously look for Copper ... and it's right next to me! Yay!
I could probably have run for Hinduism - it's not founded anywhere till 2960BC. Ah well.
I'm beginning to think hut contents are dependent on level - I've very rarely had hostile natives till this game, when I get two lots within the first 2000 years ... I survive once more, though. As my shiny new Worker heads off to hook up the Copper, I start a Warrior/Settler pair building and contemplate city placement:
Hopefully my dot maps aren't too weedy ;) I floundered around a bit with my next tech choices: Pottery -> Hunting -> Fishing -> Masonry. All kinda useful, but all a bit directionless. No surprise then when in 1960BC I get told quite how hopeless my advancement is ;)
By this stage Judaism has also been FiaDL, and I've founded Memphis on the centre north site I marked out. Thebes is pumping out the Axemen, to garrison itself and Memphis, and then to escort another Settler off to the north-eastern city site. The other notable thing about 1960BC was that I'd finally met another civ off to the south:
I decided at this point to make an attempt to build The Oracle, as it was still available, so I researched my way up to Priesthood and started to build it. I was researching Writing while it was building, and stopped to build an Axe in the middle so that I'd get Writing first ... and proceeded to miss out on it by three turns. Damnit.
During this time I also settled Heliopolis - there's a barb city right next to it, but I've enough defence in there to ignore it for now. And in 875BC I met Qin - my northern neighbour:
As Writing is discovered I get Open Borders with both the Incans and Qin, rather hoping they'll get some religion to spread to me, to keep the people happy. No such luck, yet. I'm still floundering around a bit with research - after Writing I got Sailing, then Mathematics.
Around 400BC I met another 2 civs in quick sucession, which puts me in contact with all the civs on this continent:
Roosevelt is even lower than me in score. Not very good, eh Mr President?
In 350BC I get a pleasant surprise, I'm told how the civs line up in terms of size of empire & I'm 4th!! And of the civs I've met only the Khan is doing better:
In 200BC I have military success! I burn that Barb city down to ashes:
Finally in 25BC a religion spreads through my lands - Hinduism, from the Americans. I'd rather have Judaism as more people have that, but beggars can't be choosers. Besides, I'm Spiritual, I can convert at the drop of a hat.
Meanwhile, Thebes has been pumping out the axes to fog bust. And I'm researching Currency to increase the cashflow - it's just as well I've got lots of money from that failed Oracle bid, else I'd be in trouble.
1AD seems a good time for a couple of screenshots of the glorious *coff* Egyptian Empire, and to move on to page 2. I'm not doing that well at the moment if you look at the demographics screen - nothing above average.
Onward to Part 2