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You just have to tell me how you do it !
I have tried every civ and every sort of strat and cant even get close ! And that is just against the comp… in other words sim city !
At what stage to you switch vills from food to wood ?. do you mine any gold or stone ? What ratio of real vills/fbs ? Do you get any upgrades in between (wood)(wall) ?
Just doing the math you start with 3 vills you have 9 min 50 sec of vill build time if you get a14:30 bronze (14:30 – 2min bronze – 2 min tool – 20 sec before tool & 20 sec before bronze.. this just means that if you build a vill close to tool & bronze time you will delay it)
This means the most real vills you can make is 29. Any more real vills and bronze would have to be greater than 14:30 … its just mathematically impossible.
Now FB’s only take 20 sec’s and if you build maybe 3 docks (and wood wise you would only get all these up by about 8-9 minutes) you could pump out 9 fbs each minute. This may get you an extra 27 vills (that’s 56 before hitting bronze). Now this means that in a perfect world the wood would always have to be coming in. Even with pho this is a big ask.. lets just check the math on that :
3 docks = 300
SP = 120
Granary = 120
Barracks = 120
2 tool buildings = 300
14 houses = 420
27 fb’s = 1350
Total = 2730 wood
Now comes the tricky part .. by the time you hit bronze I assume almost every vill is on wood but at the start you don’t put a vill on wood until no 6-7 and the first 6 guys stay on food for a while ! At best you can say an average of 10 vills on wood over the first 12:30 of the game. (this is allowing for a gradual progression of vills from 7-29 going onto wood)
They would gather 0.76 wood per sec and move at a rate of 1.1 tiles per sec… so this equation becomes a little arbitrary… this would cut their gathering rate to about 0.40 (assuming an average walk of 3 tiles (0.76 x ((3x1.1)/(0.76x13)))
So at 12:30 your vills could have gathered 11:30 (time less 1 min before any are on wood) times ave vills on wood (10) times gathering/movement rate (0.40) = 2,760.
So I guess theoretically it can be done if you do everything just perfectly.
But a70 vill Bronze by these stats just seems impossible.
I am afraid I seem like a doubter but I have even set up a scenario crawling with resources & fish rich water close to the TC and I can’t do it !