Civilization IV: Two City Start

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From my latest CivIV game. Look at the upper right portion of the map, and you'll see two purple (Roman) cities on the first turn. How'd that happen? My initial Warrior was generated right next to a village. As my first move, I sent the Warrior into the village, which gave me a Settler. It was well-placed, so I created my second city right there still on the first turn. There is a small bug when this happens. The game charges city maintenance based on what exists at the end of the turn. You don't get charged for your first city. But since I had two cities at the end of turn one, the game saw them both as my first city, and failed to charge maintenance.



A little more detail for the non-Civ addicts. You begin each game with one Settler (used to found cities) and either a Warrior or a Scout (for civilizations that start with the Hunting technology.) Scattered about the map are little villages. Entering one of these villages will give one of several results. The villagers can give you gold, teach you a new technology, give you a map, or provide you with a Warrior, Worker, Scout, or Settler. As time goes by it becomes increasingly likely that the villagers will be hostile and generate 1-3 Barbarian Warriors. Racing around searching for villages is an important part of the early game.

Also in this game, with their final fate:

• Saladin of the Arabian Empire (light green) Asked for protection as a Vassal state early in the game. Remained Rome's vassal until the end.


• Kublai Khan of the Mongolian Empire (dark brown) Conquered by Rome after he declared war on me despite my having riflemen and cannon, and him having swordsmen and Keshiks.


• Mr. Big of America, Inc. (light blue) One of the special characters for the Next War scernario, shown as George Washington. Stomped into the ground after I got sick of his spies causing problems.


• Ragnar of the Viking Empire (lavender) Thankfully that psycho was confined to his own continent. Still declared multiple wars against Isabella and Sitting Bull. He didn't bug me, so I didn't bug him... except for grabbing two colonies he had planted on my coast.


• Isabella of the Spanish Empire (peach) Spent most of the game fighting petty wars with Ragnar and Sitting Bull and demanding that everyone convert to.. Judaism. Yes, this made me laugh.


• Sitting Bull of the Native American Empire (dark brown) He was never a threat, mainly because the NAN spent the entire game fighting off the Spanish and the Vikings. I encouraged the hijinks by feeding him technologies to help him fight.

Ended up with a Cultural Victory. My starship was within turns of launching and I was building a force to invade the Vikings for a Domination win.

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I should post a review of Civ V some day...