 Let's see what we've got in here all right the new population could be a big boon and so could the Technology actually I could get the mining quicker, but I'm not gonna have a worker right away So it won't really do anything for me. I do really want to do this But I want to do it later I'd rather get the culture boost as soon as possible so I'm gonna actually do the culture boost so I can buff this and rush quickly Now actually do I really want to because normally in these games I will go Liberty And try to expand with that and I think I will I'll take the 20 culture So I can hopefully go Liberty pretty early Now with my second movement Next turn I'll swing up around like that way Turn nine and things are starting to happen. So my first pathfinder. I actually upgraded to a composite bowman I'm not exactly sure what that'll do Demographically to my military, but I definitely have a more powerful military than anyone else in the game and I also seem to have an above-average population things are going okay there but I did this partly because I'd already gotten some culture out of a hut and While the technology or a population would have been pretty cool pretty early I'd rather have this relatively strong unit to be able to explore here swing back around maybe steal a worker So I'm gonna keep exploring up this way. I want to build a city right over here real quick I mean there's nothing great. Look there's two more copper Which I'm gonna have plenty of copper. I'm gonna be the copper king in this game But settling right around here somewhere Would actually be a pretty good way to prevent Persepolis from expanding It'll be a nice launch pad in case I decided to just straight up invade at some point in the nearing future So also, I just want to expand quickly and take advantage of my power So this is a nice way to put some pressure on I'm gonna explore up this way a little bit But I don't want to go too far because I don't want to build a city up this way Well, we'll see what I do. Maybe I'll keep going to look for huts But I'm gonna consider getting a settlement in here pretty quickly I also want to get a settlement up here relatively quickly see the bananas and the fish and everything The question will be where exactly to put it because again, I want to sort of hem Persepolis out There's a nice wall here. So this is a pretty nice defensive perimeter So I definitely want to settle up here. The question really is do I want an ocean side settlement now or not? That will give me some more options later in the game but it also makes me more vulnerable to a seaborne attacks what sort of requires that I build a navy earlier and Shoshone seemed to do pretty well if you use them as a primarily land-based power and try to assert control over your continent early But if I go in land-based, I would let's see. I want this stone for sure Even I got another stone here one two three. So to get that one two three I Could go on this hill here That would also get me the fish that I wouldn't be able to work about till I get somewhere else with a city on the water So if I go land-based, I think this would be where I would want to go the other option Would be to sneak up here issue these for now and just wall this off or to go right on this hill and that might not be that bad because look One two three. I can get in some of this floodplain action. I'll have a bunch of desert to deal with but I'll get that copper I'll get the stone. I'll get the fish I'll still get the bananas and I'd be on a hill. So it'd be a pretty good city as well But then it leaves less Menace here, but I could post a unit build a fort there to build my defenses So I put a fort here and then I build a city down here. I've hem them in nicely So what to do? I built this pathfinder. So as I said, I'm gonna now explore down the other way That's water Looking for huts and such head off this way first partly because I want to see what's over here It might be make sense to build another city there and Depending on exactly with configuration like for example, if the land somehow goes back up like that It might change where I build cities This is a tough call I've already got my mining which was pretty crucial to my plans So masonry and bronze working are both pretty equivalent now Normally, I would say immediately bronze working no question because it reveals iron on the map Which better informs where to build my cities and It also lets me build spearmen But I'm gonna have very powerful military units for a good chunk of the early game with these composite Bowman And this guy will eventually also likely become a composite Bowman If I go copper, I only get one additional resource right now because I can't get these guys right away So if I go copper, I can build spearmen and I can get copper and copper But if I go masonry, I can get this stone Which will increase my production and I get this marble, which is a luxury resource So I'll get I'll get one luxury resource just like I would if I went for mining with the copper But I'll also get this production resource. I feel like I want to go masonry Also, I'm going freedom or liberty, which means that I'll want to be able to build the pyramids Which is part of my plan. So I'm gonna go masonry In terms of production, you'll notice I'm not building workers even though I could and my plan here is actually to first I'm not gonna build the pyramids right away. I want to do other stuff I'm gonna build citizenship to get a free worker and make and just start rapidly improving my cities with the 25% more efficient worker Then I'm going to go two three to get my first settler possibly my second I'm gonna expand pretty widely. I think so A path is to go one two three four. I actually want to go one two three then four So I won't get this benefit right away of reducing the increase of culture costs for my cities But I'll get the worker right away without having to build it so I can do other things had I taken the Population from that hot first I might have just built my first settler now, but instead Look, I'm only four turns away from getting another population and building a settler will stop city growth as you can see there Could build another pathfinder. I'm gonna get a worker in 11 turns anyway, so no point in building a second worker there, especially if I plan to also build the pyramids later so And I have powerful military units with this guy and this guy can always circle back around barbarians won't be a Concern any time soon, so I'm gonna do the monument to buff my culture further and in eight turns I'll have got my population and I can make the call as to what to do that. So I'm definitely doing the monument quite a good turn Let's look at these demographics a little more closely So the only things that are notable here in the early game Yeah, my military is not that much bigger, but it is bigger because that composite moment and of course I have double land everyone just because that's one of my civs powers that you start with basically double land and I'm kind of middle of the pack on this stuff crop yield is only high and Way above average because while I don't have any workers My city starts with a wider range. I just get more pick of my local terrain, which is very good early on So see how this goes