Marseille had no new luxes, but amazing growth potential with three floodplains wheat. Troyes is starting Petra with several desert hills there. Every city except Lyon was quite strong, with four or five resources and some good land. Lyon and Tours had one new luxury each and Chartres had two, making six types total. Here's an overview at 750 BC, with seven cities. Just suffice it to say that the snowball accelerated rapidly. I'll skip the details of selling resources, buying workers and work boats, and micromanaging growth and happiness. The settler policy came on turn 20, for a second city on turn 22.

I opened scout - scout - granary and bought a worker. I went on to rack up a great haul from ruins: Mining, Calendar, two population growths, culture again (Republic policy on turn 9), 75 and 90 gold. Here's my start after settling, and after a ruin pop on turn 2 gave me culture for an impossibly fast Liberty opening. The game parameters are as set out in the CFC thread: Emperor difficulty, Pangaea map, France, normal speed. There isn't much new in the mechanics here. I'm going to keep this report to one page as a high level overview, rather than going into the deep details.

This, naturally, intrigued me very much, so I embarked on such a game myself. While playing my previous game, I came across this CivFanatics thread, proposing that wide ICS-like gameplay might be the fastest route to a culture victory, using the culture bonus of France. Home - Wide Culture with France - Home Wide Culture with France

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