CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION
The game begins, and I am Tokugawa of the Japanese Empire. My starting techs are Fishing and The Wheel, and my characteristics are Aggressive and Organized, giving the following bonuses:
- Free Combat I Promotion for Melee and Gunpowder Units
- Double Production Speeds of Barracks and Drydock
- -50% Civic Upkeep
- Double Production Speed of Lighthouse, Courthouse
I like having the "organized" trait. Hopefully I'll have enough space to make it useful. If not, I reckon that "aggressive" trait will help.
I start with a settler and a warrior. My settler sits on a flood plain, between two rivers that are 3-4 tiles apart (maybe the same river that circles around). Before building the city, I also can see three forest tiles, one hill, one hill/forest/plain, one plains tile, a one-tile lake, corn, and three flood plains tiles. All eight of the closest-in tiles have fresh water. No reason to move away from there, so Kyoto is founded right there, and set to build a warrior. The founding of the city reveals even more useful tiles, and not a single problematic one in the "fat cross."
