24-06-2003 16:19									#1
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The chieftan save was sent to us just to show ius our start and it's not very good!!!

On a river but... alot of desert. Should we build where we are now we would have 8 floodplains, 9 desert, 1 plains and 3 hills in the 21 tiles radius.

We could have decent growth but thats almost no production.

	24-06-2003 23:06									#2
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no specials?

It wouldn't be bad if we had some kind of special on the hills.

	24-06-2003 23:39									#3
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I guess we could build where we start and use it to pump out settlers quick. The desert will give us 2 shields per turn if we mine them, not great, but not devastating. The floodplains will make growth really good though. But every other tile will need a mine to keep growth from outstripping production.

	25-06-2003 01:49									#4
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can we get two shields from desert in despotism?

we won't get much out of the hills unless they have specials on them.

	25-06-2003 22:21									#5
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Panzer if you're reading this whats with the start location? I'm mean yeah flood plains but we won't have a unit built for 10 turns. We just better have a load of lux and iron and horses nearby?????

Im fact you should tell us some stuff about the map to even things out.

	25-06-2003 23:54									#6
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quote: Originally posted by OPD Panzer if you're reading this whats with the start location? I'm mean yeah flood plains but we won't have a unit built for 10 turns. We just better have a load of lux and iron and horses nearby????? Im fact you should tell us some stuff about the map to even things out.

You'll find out soon enough

	08-07-2003 14:35									#7
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When I played the Chinese in the main RP Team internal PBEM game a few months back, Beijing and my second city were both on a massive floodplain. Despite the rest of my territory being mostly jungle, I was whipping *ss against E_T and Togas Ninot was doing better, but he started with 2 settlers with a starting city location of 3 cows and tons of land behind his chokepoint where he could keep E_T out

Regardless, the thing to do is to make your floodplain cities if your capital is there into a settler factory... you can REX like mad from a flood plain if you play your cards right.

	08-07-2003 17:19									#8
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Yeah we should be able to grow quick enough it's just the productin that going to hold us back.

	08-07-2003 18:11									#9
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Production will not hold us back if we build mines on the wheat and the hills (in that order). I'll explain in my plan thread, but those two mines should cover us pretty easily for the first 30 turns of the game or so.

	08-07-2003 18:56									#10
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And with all those flood plains we can probably rex like crazy without a granary.