Re: Civ 4 : Early game strategy

On 24 Nov 2007 11:14:20 -0700, Eddie Grove <eddiegrove@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:

>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

Got to agree with this. Worker or work boat is always my first build
now. After playing Civ 3, it took me a while to realize that in Civ 4
you can go for a few builds before you need military units after the
free initial scout or warrior (for exploring). Early animal barbs don't
come into your cultural borders and no civ has ever declared war on me
straight away, not even thugs like Monte and Shaka. I hardly ever build
warriors -- I prefer not to build military units until I've got archers,
axes or chariots. By that time I've also got mines, farms and a good
basic infrastructure working for me.