Re: Civ 4 : Early game strategy

Yup - worker first is essential.

The only exception is where i have a sea food available and can build a
work 
boat.

Food food food. Everything else can wait.


"Eddie Grove" <eddiegrove@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Paul Hyett <pah@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> You and everyone else posting here are crazy.  Build a worker first
thing
> while researching agriculture.  Without a worker, you cannot grow
quickly.
> [Obviously if you have fish or deer for food and no rice/wheat things
will 
> be
> different.]
>
> Test it out.  Next game, play normally until you build a worker.  Check 
> the
> date on the turn it is produced.  Then, restart the game building a
worker
> first, and then building exactly the same other things you built the
first
> time before the worker.  Continue until the same date, and compare what 
> you
> have built and how much food is in the food box and how many resources 
> have
> been worked.  I bet you will decide worker first produced better
results.
>
>
> Eddie
>