Metaliturtle plays Civilization 7

[Metaliturtle]

Right now the game is downloading, this will be my first dive into Civ in years, I'll try to take screenshots and give my 'probably biased' opinions here.

[Metaliturtle]

My first few takes... Let's go Greece! Rando leader.  I get Lafayette... A bit annoyed that I can't pick Alexander the Great. (Error message posting pictures, open to recommended hosting sites)

[Metaliturtle]

Starting the first game now, lots of reading about the Ages Mechanic, not sure how I feel about that, at some point I pick a new Civilization at the end of the age?  This could be jarring if done wrong, really cool if done well.

[Metaliturtle]

Legacy Paths, it says I can go Economic, Cultural, Scientific, and Militaristic.  I'm thinking Culture/Militaristic are my most likely best options based on Lafayette's abilities and the Greece bonuses.

[Metaliturtle]

"Behold Athenai, the cultural center of the Greek people!" I get a tooltip telling me to focus on food, production, and science!

[Metaliturtle]

Tutorial railroads me into city production, I can make a Scout, or a Hoplite.. looks like they both have movement of 2 but the Hoplite has attack of 20 vs. 0 for the scout.  I'm going Hoplite.

[Metaliturtle]

Across the top I've got Gold 0 (+5) Science +10 Culture +11 Happiness +6 Influence 0 (+13) and settlement limit 1/3.  I imagine they're all different kinds of currency, I think to go cultural victory I should lean into Culture and Influence, with Money and Science being backup choices.

Resources in my initial territory are Horses, a few tiles away I see what I think is Gypsum after looking at the Civilopedia, it's the closest resource but the icon in the civilopedia is different from what's on the map and it doesn't tell me what the resource is when I hover over it.

Looks like I also have elephants nearby, so Ivory, or ancient death tanks await me.

[Metaliturtle]

My Hoplites are built in 1 turn and I send them to the Ivory.  Hover-over tips are now working, I can confirm Gypsum, Hoplite reveals cotton to the north.  Looks like there's some terrain with the cliffs, Tundra to the south which is why I'll proceed north assuming I'm close to a pole, hopefully goody huts are still a thing.

[Buster's Uncle]

Reduce your screenies to 800x and save as .jpgs, and anything under 100kbs ought to attach fine.  Recent attachment problem that has us stumped so far, but wilkes is on the job...

I'll look for avatar material if you can post...

[Metaliturtle]

Still on Turn 2, I get to select a technology, I can choose between sailing, Animal Husbandry, or pottery.  I pick Animal Husbandry since I have the horses nearby and would like to develop them quickly.

[Metaliturtle]

Nice little bubble at the top showing 7 turns to research AH.  Prompted to choose production again, I'm thinking 2 more Hoplites and then I'll start building.  Maybe I can poach another civ early.

[Metaliturtle]

New option I'm not familiar with - Grow City - I have the choice of a couple grasslands that will increase 2 food and 1 Happy face, or the horses give 1 food, 1 production, and 1 happy face, so I pick the horses.  I now have them as a resource as well giving a bonus to cavalry units.

[Buster's Uncle]

Somehow this reminds me of my sister playing her first SMACX as the SupahNewbs.

Hey - I should badge you as a faction modder on the strength of they were your idea and you contributed to the design, come to think of it.

Done.

[Metaliturtle]

Couple turns moving my Hoplite and I encounter an Independent Village... the Izirtu, and they're Hostile.  I'm going to attack with my single Hoplite unit and see what happens.. looks like just a scout unit.

[Metaliturtle]

I kill the scout over 2 turns of battle, and find the village of Izirtu