 So I found another hut in the early part of the game and I have decided Because remember I get to pick now I can't pick the same thing too quickly in a row that's kind of the way it works like once you find something and pick it You can't pick from that same class of things until you find I believe two more intervening huts Granted now this if six is out you guys really don't care about the details about if I've worked, but I've decided what to pick here and while you might say oh, I should get the technology. I'm doing fine on technology I'll develop it fast enough on my own, but you'll notice that my capital is not growing right now because I'm building a very early settler So I'm going to take additional population Give myself one heck of a big city early on that's gonna actually speed up probably this oh look my boards are expanding Yeah, everything's coming up millhouse here so I've explored my region. I haven't explored up here yet. I think there's probably more land up this way This might be an inland sea. I can't quite took her. It looks like water comes around that way so It's shaping up to where I'll probably try to build a city like up here somewhere And I'll probably try to build a city Like right here to get in his biz I Really want the city over here because I want to get these citrus and I want to just completely kind of wall off Persepolis because I gotta I gotta eliminate at least one player like there's all humans here I gotta I gotta make sure that I don't get blindsided. So I think I'm gonna get this settler out because like one two three so one two three I might actually build the city right here because that'll get me the salt Which I don't have access to which means I'll have the extra luxury resource that I need to justify founding the city So I'll get I'll get a water access. I'll be able to build river stuff. I'll have some fish I'll have even more copper. I'll have all the copper in the world. I won't be next to a mountain and Being next to a mountain would actually be pretty useful In terms of building stuff later But my choice is because I can go here just the same because I'll have plenty of copper So being on this losing the mind wouldn't be so bad going here would actually block this off even more effectively and It would let me build observatory later and Some and some wonders that require that and it would encroach pretty nicely, but I think I want the ocean access I've been playing the civilization one easy Failing is to not have enough ocean access and you'll have to basically conquer someone's ocean access and get it So I think I'm gonna build my city here immediately and then I'm gonna move my little military Up over here to menace and I'm gonna try to sneak in if I get another settlement over here Making this whole swatch mine Then I'm in real good shape dangerously good shape now up here I'll probably build a fort and like keep a guy there just to kind of keep this office is a very nice defensive area It'll really constrain where war can happen but Depends on what's up here Probably build the city cell build a city somewhere up here Really, I might send a military unit like a scout or something I might build one really quick send it up here to make sure that I kind of don't want Persepolis to be able to settle here Or here so I need to keep military units around to menace and frankly, I think I should be aggressive I'll probably declare war if I cannot come to some sort of a court to prevent them from settling near me They can settle all they want up here. I don't really care, but I'm taking all this biz My empire expands At the expense of Persepolis I'm going to surround Persepolis with cities like an amoeba and eventually Persepolis will itself be mine We will unfortunately claim Oliver not be friends because I do not have enough room to settle here on my own I have a nice buffer and that no one can invade me from this side for some time. Look at this I've actually got this triad of city-states and The land seems to dead-end at all three and I suspect the bottom of that is right down here That's my guess Especially because I see this tundra creeping in so there's no civilizations anywhere, but up this way Maybe on the other side of these guys, but again nice buffer So I'm gonna get a city here and then hopefully also sneak a city around over here. I might rush another settler So first things first I should continue down my Liberty path to rush that settler and also Increase my production a little bit so I could build the city here or here It's an interesting question. They're both great spots actually in a vacuum. I would prefer to build it on this hill Which would also get me access to that copper But if I build it here I get access the same resources because look this guy can still get to that salt and all this stuff I'd rather be a little closer to my own biz because if I'm here if I'm here He could theoretically surround the city and cut me off in a war. I know there's gonna be a war This is more defensible The city will be able to plug this gap. Now. Why don't I build it in the gap? Well, I want to be on this river here. I want to be Far enough away from my stuff, so I'm not overlapping too heavily And if I build it like up here while they'd be next to the mountain that'd be nice I wouldn't be able to actually build the mine on top of this I would get the resource but I wouldn't get the benefit of the mine. So all things considered I think I want to build the city here now Normally I build a monument first thing when I build a city like this but a lot of the reason I do that isn't so much to buff this culture but To make sure that the city's borders expand quickly, but the borders are already pretty nicely Expanded here not as big as I would have hoped actually I kind of hoping they'd be bigger But can't really predict what the logic is for these guys So I build the monument and I build another military right away Do I go for early religion because early religion could actually be useful too? Man, no one's gonna bother me anytime soon militarily. I get away. I'll build some walls here soon ish. I think I'm gonna go with the monument actually Let's push culture first Now that the city is secure Now this guy might come in menace I'm gonna come back around here and be ready to counter menace