... villagers

6 for other civs.

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... food

150 for other civs

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... suffice

A food source is: 1 berry patch, 2 elephants or 2 schools of shore fish. A herd of gazelles is also, but I treat them as an advanced topic.

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... sixth

For non-Shang civs you need seven foragers and have to send your eighth villager chopping wood for your third house hence you send your ninth and tenth exploring

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... villager

It seems to me that after hitting H, you have to wait until you see the villager icon before hitting C. This is the only time when you have to do this though.

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... center

Perhaps 1 time in 20 those berry bushes are inaccessible or offer only limited access. If you really want to sound incompetent in an intermediate game, sending out a message saying ``I have no berries near my TC.''

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... either

They may occasionally have trouble finding the next tree until you have built a storage pit near a forest.

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... lion

The ``fight or flight'' option is a tough one. Either one works great for alligators, neither works well for lions, but I lean towards fighting lions unless I know that I can reach a swamp quickly - lions don't seem to like swamps. Alligators are easy to kill, but if they aren't in my way, I'll run away from them just to save time and keep my villager near full strength.

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... wounded

It is a tough call if they are 10 - 20% wounded. It is hard to consider that seriously wounded, but villagers often come out of a fight with a lion with only 10% of their hit points left, so it may be wise to replace even slightly wounded explorers.

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... one

Shore fishing only requires 2 villagers but produces as much as four. Elephant hunting requires 6 villagers.

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... map

They aren't marked any differently from other units, but you should know what all of the dots of your color on the map are. Check them from time to time.

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... minutes

After you have assigned your villagers to foraging you might as well set the speed to fast(2.0) and save yourself a few seconds. Set it back to slow before you start the next game or exercise though.

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... fishing

Schools of shore fish are shown in small square boxes and can always be fished either from shore or from the sea. The large boxes (deep sea schools) can sometimes also be fished form the shore.

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... bushes

Is this micromanagement worth it? I think it is, but only on the first berry bush. Four optimal foragers will generate 104 food per minute whereas two optimal and two non optimal foragers will generate only 96 per minute. Whereas 104 is essentially the 105 that the town center can conceivably use in a minute, 96 guarantees a 10% slip in villager production.

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... bushes

An advanced technique is to put the villagers in the inaccessible area before you build the granary.

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... foragers

Experts often start with 5 and add one later.

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... ninth

Eighth for non-Shang civs

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... attack

If a villager gets hit, you may have to finish off the attack or at least distract the elephant with another villager to save that villager.

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... on

It will take 5 villagers about 3 minutes to butcher one elephant.

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