Time for a nice chill sunday afternoon quarantine civ4 thread. Who shall we play as today?

The fishing village of Guimãraes is founded in 1720BC, we have yet to make contact with another civilization.
Eh, I don't have stone and not a lot of forest to chop

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It might be because I play on Immortal but Stonehenge is never really worth it there.
Hmm, looks like we're going to be isolated. Did you get Writing yet? Because I feel like we might have to rush Astronomy if that's the case, and 2 Scientists from Library help. Real bummer that we missed out on the fish though.
Whip out a Work Boat and try to look at the outline of the island and see if there are any small islands nearby we could settle. Consider Great Lighthouse. IMHO settle the next city on the jungle tile 3N1E of Lisbon to share Corn and help it develop Cottages.

When I play this I get overwhelmed by the complexity of warfare around the year 1850 or so.

Don't have writing yet, there is some land further west but these barb archers are being dicks. Happiness is also going to be an issue since all i have is spice. This is on monarch difficulty btw.

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>been playing civ5 very recently
>check thread
holy shit square tiles

Well, my gameplan therefore would be to
>get Writing and/or Pottery ASAP, we could use cottages and/or scientists and either a fast Academy or bulbs towards the Astronomy path since it seems more and more likely we are isolated
>we sadly have to self-research IW and chop out all of that jungle which sucks ass but can't be helped
>with cottages and writing expand as much as possible (until science rate becomes 0%), then grow Cottages and bleed towards Currency to rebound from that, we have a ton of land to ourselves and it will pay off if we settle it ASAP, especially with Exp/Imp.
>since we have Marble, Priesthood is possibly an option for Oracle to snag Monarchy (for happiness issues) or Metal Casting (on the path to Optics which we will need ASAP)
>skip the usual Civil Service beeline for Bureaucracy, Lisbon is a so-so capital city and we are late on cottages, instead focus on Optics / Astronomy asap (possibly bulbing it with Scientists)
>not sure about Aesthetics->Literature since usually it's excellent trade bait but with no AIs on the continent there is no one to trade it towards although Marble makes Great Library a possibility.

The one boon of isolation is that we can peacefully expand to 12-14+ cities and there is a ton of grassland so we have the commerce to carry it.

Also, if we somehow have any small islands around our starting area, it becomes prudent to settle them since offshore cities grant better trade routes. This is particularly imba with Great Lighthouse, but is very helpful in any other situation.

>just seeing the main menu was enough to make Baba Yetu play in my head
Brehs

I do have pottery, was thinking of chopping the great lighthouse in oporto. Should I go for writing first though?

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You have roads so Sailing won't give you a trade route bonus, so I'd be tempted to get Writing first and get a Library in Oporto (poor cottage terrain but good food). Have Guimaraes work a Flood Plain cottage soon.
Also, have your Workers build some cottages on the rivered grassland tiles.
I'd still recommend settling a "helper city" one tile west of the closest Spice (3N1E of Lisbon). Lisbon will be stuck at Size 5 for a while because we have a lot of priorities and a hard time getting happy resources. This means a small satellite city can borrow its corn and grow Lisbon's cottages or its own cottages along the fertile river (once the jungle is cleared). The fewer happy resources you have, the better it might be to build your cities tight since you can't grow them high anyway.
How many workers do you have? With jungle heavy starts it might be prudent to whip out another worker.

Alternately, if Oporto is the designated GLH city, you can build the Library in Lisbon and have Lisbon run Scientists off of its corn tile while Guimaraes and the 4th city help it grow cottages. Running scientists in Oporto would likely delay the GLH because you would likely have to pass up the Copper.

great song

4 workers as of now, going to whip out a couple once the granaries finish, most riverside tiles are cottaged.
I figured it would be the best place since there's still 3 forests to chop and it can work the marble and copper and another mine possibly.

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All of this sounds good to me. Not the worst map to be isolated on unless the other continent ends up being 20 city Justinian with peace-vassaled Qin and Gandhi trading him techs (happened to me once and it was a nightmare).
So yeah, I think a shot at GLH is due. If GLH is built, you can spam cities alongside the coast and they will pay off rather quickly even without offshore colonies due to free trade routes. Then you can pick up Calendar and Currency (Calendar being on the way to Astro anyway), mass expand and tech / bulb your way towards Astro.
Metal Casting will be picked up sometime on the way (not necessarily thorugh Oracle since I don't know how you would fit Priesthood into this tech frame in time) and Copper is around, so you might be tempted to pick up Colossus to synergize with all the coastal cities that will be planted soon.

Looks like we are indeed isolated barring some island chains, a work boat is off exploring the eastern coastline. Double-whipped a settler in Lisbon.

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>game about civilization
>main theme is an african melody
never understood this part

Vassals are turned off by the way

>not bringing the light of civilization and the true religion to poor and uncultured inferior races
Are you American or something?

A Companion to Ancient Egypt by Alan B. Lloyd is an excellent primer to learning more about one of the great civilizations that settled in North Africa.

>Civ IV? How about Civ IV: Colonization instead.

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It really is a deformed gigachad because the 1994 version of Colonization is a much better game.

>1994 version of Colonization is a much better game.
Based. My cousin and I used to play the shit out of it back in the day.

Iron Working is finished, used the overflow from the settler to almoset 1-turn a worker from Lisbon, whipped a monument in Guimarães so that we can really get that fishing-city whipping going with the southern fish. Should I go for GLH or writing now?

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>1240 BC
You know what, let's go Sailing first after all, lest we lose GLH to the AI.