starting strategy

[jamezar]

Pangea, large or standard world, be any civ you like, but industrious ones work best.

Use a spot with 4 or 5 flood plains and a lot of forest, build stonehenge while your civ grows. When your city gets to a 3 or 4 interupt stonehenge and build a worker. Direct your research straight to polytheism and then to monotheism, this way you should found hinduism and judaism. Then go for bronze working.

When stonehenge is done build 3 or 4 settlers as fast as you can, rush the settlers by using your worker to chop. Found your cities in a way that seals in an open area behind your cities, this is usually possible. Next, rush build temple of artimis to increase your great people prod. After this spread hinduism as fast as you can to all corners of the world, hopefully you'll get some converts.

When you get your first great prophet, use him to discover theology (if christianity isn't already founded). Make sure before he's born that you have writing and meditation. If you have a great merchant born instead, then just found metal casting and trade with it.

Now you should have 4 or 5 cities and some more room the computer can't get to and 3 holy cities ready to generate some gold. (Build banks, markets, and grocers in all your holy cities and wall street in your capital). The next step is to fill in your area with more cities and to protect yourself, build a lot of cottages for research and be aggressive in attacking try to get to 10 or 12 cities by the industrial age.

Using this start I can win on emperor about half the time and once in a while on immortal but of course if you want to try deity, good luck.

[seth the conquerer]

i dont understand why you would build stonehenge when you only have one city.....since its chief gain is putting an obelisk in every city....seems like it would be quicker to get an obelisk ta start....but evenstill youde want workers and settlers as soon as possible wouldnt ya? Isnt stonehenge too big of a production cost ta start with? especially since it goes obsolete so early anyways....what do you see as the advantage of starting to build stonehenge immediately? to be the first and only one to get it? I like the parthenon myself.

it just seems like youde give yur an opponents a real productione edge, that way is all, and im not sure stonehedge is worth that

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