 saw a hut and I thought I could steal it from Scott but his spearman beat me to it so I guess the best I can do now is hang out over there and menace him get some ruins along the way I'll need a real unit here pretty early but like I said I'm gonna build a moderate military pretty early in the game so it should be fine this guy can grab this that guy won't come out probably circle back this way protect the worker and after I build the worker I'll probably build a hoplite first I guess I can't build it first cuz I'll need copper no need that that's right hoplites I can just build experiment so I'll just build the hoplite and then I'll be good I want like three or four hoplites so that should have revealed horses on the map and sure enough check it out one two three there are horses within reach of Athens so some companion cavalry is going to stream around this way in the near future just drop Scott's trade and just sort of menace I'm just gonna try to menace him and keep him bottled up long enough to build a city somewhere here maybe maybe like there even though this guy's pregnant to get that to the city the city state I might just bulk up I'm not gonna conquer any city states because that's my power so I might just make this an ally this will basically just be a city of mine so if I'm gonna menace Scott I could build one up here but then I won't have a city connection which will be annoying so I might actually end up building a city here let's see what's down this way though because down here might be a good spot for a city too it's also worth noting that he has a power where his units are stronger like his regular units are stronger in the water more canoe and he also cares amphibious assault I believe so I'm actually my best interest to not build any of my cities other than Athens on the coast so I think I'm gonna build one down here somewhere we'll see what resources pop up but I see that citrus peeking as for research since I got the horses I kind of want to get to my companion cavalry pretty quick which would be going over here that would also be giving up on getting the Great Library and I don't want to give up on that necessarily but it was a disaster when Scott built it last time so I think let's see so I'm gonna need calendar actually need calendar at some point relatively soon only masonry for this but I already got mining I think I can avoid that maybe we can just rush these guys early trapping doesn't get me anything yet but I don't want to keep filling these out actually do want to push into something get into the classical era sooner rather than later I'll go for actually building that hoplite I talked about and actually finding iron which will inform where I build these cities it's actually kind of crucial so I can't build the city I wanted to build originally since Lhasa is going to grow I need to know where the iron is and the horses are and then I can make the best decisions bronze working it is play to my strengths so it looks like Scott also got a unit upgrade out of a hut but I have a hoplite and he only has a spear man so his capitals down here I'm gonna chase this guy up and hope I can keep him at bay thus leaving him pretty much unable to settle because I don't think I'll have any other military units yet maybe he's building a scout so I gotta keep this guy away and hope that barbarians harass here so we can't actually safely get a worker or a settler out meanwhile he's gonna take that I guess I could declare war on him now and just start harassing sure they're nicely weakened maybe I can just force the game to a quick conclusion oh I can ignore that guy shall the clay say to him that fashion it appears that my immortal enemy is having some trouble with barbarians and I am not going to assist here I'm actually gonna retreat from these barbarians I was fighting his spearmen up here but he was able to salvage it by getting an opportune level up used it to heal I didn't want to just have I didn't want to risk losing this guy so I just kind of moved around I'm letting him fight the barbarians I've scouted this area out and I'm gonna settle up here probably pretty quick just to deny him this area I'm still vaguely thinking if I could sneak a guy over here and settling like here or here there's a very interesting spot to settle I'm kind of limited by the edge of the map but there's stone there's iron if I put it I guess I have to put it like here not really gonna get those truffles unfortunately but there's silk here so I could put it here and it basically just be a base of operations for wars but instead I'm gonna move this guy down here and just start exploring this bottom part of the map meanwhile I finally got a troop here so these scouts actually are doing an admiral job of protecting my dudes especially this guy here and I'm just gonna keep using them to keep these barbarians at bay this hop lights probably not gonna stray too far from here until I build a settlement down here which I gotta go send these scouts and explore shortly you can say I'm pushing along I'm gonna play war I'm just gonna have a war-driven society and I'm gonna push culture to so that I can pretty rapidly fill this out first at least I'm gonna get that one I want I can't have that many military units I'm not gonna play a big economic game like it did last time so my plan is to have a small number of very experienced units I don't mind if I can do it I want to never lose a military unit in this particular game so I'm actually gonna take this one next then this one so I can get here for the culture I'll go if Scott attacks me I'm gonna go here otherwise I might not even bother finishing this out I'll only finish this out if I've made it to here don't really care about the final one I don't think faith is gonna be useful to buy more great generals and that one's not super important it'll be useful but we'll see in terms of demographics Scott's population is pretty low now remember I've only got four here so Scott must have significantly less I actually can't see his capital but he's got about half what I have just forgot two citizens as opposed to four so I don't know what he's doing I mean I haven't actually leveled up any farmland I just pushed this guy here wonder if he's meddling with the citizens suboptimally I'm already beating them I got a little bit more manufacturing I got more crop yield so my troops will just my population my population will be troops just continuing to grow I've got more land probably that means I push culture before he did he probably built a scout first or another warrior that are he probably built something else early instead of a instead of a monument because well I can find out for sure 79 130 yeah so my land is bigger because I pushed culture so this expanded more meaning I have more access to food stuff it's not looking great for Scott already I'm gonna harass the hell out of him and I'll have enough of a military over here to expand and build a second city pretty quick if there's a good spot for a city I'm building here first if this is a mediocre spot then I'm gonna build over here first and meanwhile this guy is gonna sweep around this way and explore and get all the huts and then come back around and pester pester pester and I'm gonna try to just build a moderately sized army just tried to gain experience killing these barbarians and then just be over here ready to harass Scott