Re: Civ 4 : Early game strategy

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>> At the start, what do you usually build first?
>>
>> I normally wait until my first city gets to about size 3 before
building 
>> workers or settlers, since doing so stops them growing for the duration

>> of the build.
>>
>> Which buildings are your first choices? Technologies?

No settlers or workers until size three, but if I have Fi****ng and there
is 
seafood in the fat cross, I'l make a work boat after my first warrior. By 
the way, some time ago (playing as Elizabeth, one of my favourites), my 
starting point had a jewelry plot and a seafood plot. What would you folks

have built first - worker or workboat? I chose worker, but it was a tough 
choice.
  I like to found an early religion; it really gives you a boost. So 
generally, I start with researching Mysticism-Polytheism. If I miss
founding 
Judaism, I try for Judaism, which is no detour since I want to discover 
Masonry early.  I like to try to build the Pyramids because early PR is 
awesome. I almost always seem to fail to build the Oracle. Before or after

Masonry (depending on whether I managed to found Hinduism or not), I 
research Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, and then Bronze Working. 
Stonehenge is nice, but  if you fail that it is very im****tant to build 
monuments early. Baracks can wait until a little later, and it's usually 
just a waste of time and resources to build them in all your cities. Early

axemen are necessary. if you don't have either copppr or horses near where

you start, then you just have to research Iron Working before Shaka or 
Montezuma has you for lunch. Wth BtS, getting a big army early is vital if

one wants to survive.
  I'm generally a peacenik, but of course, if I find I have a neighbour 
nearby and no one is home, I let my warrior walk straight into it. Once
that 
was Julius Caesar, and he lived just six or seven plots away. Of course,
it 
would have been suicide to let him live, and besides, past experiences
with 
him made the sound of screams and things cra****ng as I destroyed Rome very

satisfying.

Öjevind