There is a Korean settler heading towards that area. My next settling target is the incense and ivory over there. I started the Parthenon but lost it by a fair margin - again thanks to the Great Library failure or else I'd have had the tech much sooner. I next started spreading missionaries as usual, two of them. The founder belief could go a number of directions, but I took good old Ceremonial Burial (+1 happy per 2 cities following it) since it looked like we would be going at least a little bit wide and would need happiness. Cathedrals would be useless in the short term so might have been left for the second follower belief, except that I know the AI really likes it so I wouldn't risk letting it wait.
The follower belief had to be Cathedrals, for the great work slot. That also might not be the optimal play, but again it looks like what you should do for culture so I want to see how it works.
Paris now did the Writer's Guild and then staffed it. I guess you can't get early wonders without a significantly better start than Paris here had, some stone or salt for productivity, or at least a very early worker steal.Īnyway, then America also signed friendship and loaned me a big pile of gold. How in the world was I supposed to beat that? I started it as soon as reasonably possible, after just the shrine and one worker. Turn 50: Nuts, I lost the Great Library by 5 turns to Poland. There's still that good old fashioned way of acquiring workers. Which I saved for a settler a few turns later. I took it and borrowed all his gold, getting me up to about 400. Turn 31, Sejong of Korea unexpectedly turned up offering a Declaration of Friendship. It's got both two Great Work slots and slings me into the classical era for Aesthetics, so go for it. Partial Liberty then fast Aesthetics may or may not be a powerful optimized move, but it looks like what you should do for a culture victory, so it's the direction I'm going to try here.Īfter the worker, Paris then went for the Great Library starting on turn 30. So here I took the Liberty opener, then would take the worker policy next. Liberty is a better tree for some partial investment like that, as more of its power is front-loaded, while most of Tradition's power is in the finisher.
Aesthetics opens with the classical era, meaning the first few policies have to be sunk somewhere else. And the other reason is because I want to get into and finish Aesthetics as soon as possible. First, I want to try something different apart from my usual (Tradition), since this is an introductory game and I'm not slamming for fastest optimized finish. Here's a look 25 turns in, as we got both the first policy and pantheon. In BNW, the AIs won't trade lump-sum gold without a Declaration of Friendship, an effective if hamfisted nerf to the practice of taking all the AI money ASAP to buy your way up the growth curve. Then, sadly as it is for one used to taking out those huge loans to buy workers, I built a worker. The build order was scout - scout - shrine. I got ruins for a map, barbarians, and one population nothing major like culture or faith. Good enough to use Desert Folklore but nothing crazy. I got this, which seems just about what I wanted. I set it to Hot climate, looking to make use of Desert Folklore as usual, but this time I resolved to play the very first map rather than start-scumming. Emperor difficulty as usual, the sweet spot with competent AIs but not insane carpets of units.įor the map setup, I went with my old favorite of Inland Sea. I'm not confident that it's enough in the late game to compare with something better for an earlier growth curve, but it's an obvious way to go and I'm filthy-casualing this one. For a civilization pick, I went with the new France, double theming bonus for tourism. That would be the new Tourism culture victory. What direction should I go with a first game? Well, there's one pretty obvious direction, and one that also might stand up to optimize through a few more replays. Here's a report of my very first BNW game. I picked up Civ 5 Brave New World on a Steam sale a while back, and hadn't gotten around to playing it, but the Holy Warriors succession game at Realms Beyond got me going.
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