I finish Copper Working and find that I have two sources of copper fairly close by. One was within range of the location that I was already thinking about. Here is my second city, founded in 2500BC (turn 60).
Now this city is a little bit of a useless city. I make it my (very slow) military pump. Here is what it looks like after I have finished the game ...
What's that I hear ... comments like "What a waste of a second city!" ... well, it served its purpose (copper & marble) and enabled me to do this ...
Since it was such a killer city site, for the first time in my Civ history, I started a second settler straight off. Normally, it is a protective unit and then a settler, but this time, settler. And to cap that off, I whipped him to completion 2 turns later. Thus my third city was founded (see below) in 2350BC (turn 66).
I played a 3CC game for a very long time. I sort of drifted after settling my 3rd city, just enjoying the high tech rate from my gold mines, as well as the high happy cap (gold and forge) and using my capital to churn units, but mainly wonders. I killed off a Barbarian city that was off my preferred location by 1 tile (see the city ruins below) ...
Why 1 tile off? I really wanted the phants. Cats and Phants make a killer army. My wonder chase went a little off when I missed the Pyramids by many turns. Qin (Khan - you know who I mean) got them in his really good capital. He also had stone so that probably made the difference. It actually changed the game a lot ...
The good think was that Khan declared war on Mansa (who is miles away on the other side of the island) so I built up my forces waiting for Khan's forces to get a very long way from home ... then ... WAR! 145AD (Turn 183)
It seems that war is contagious because Alex declared war on Mansa a few turns later and then Ceasar declared on me. He sent 1 unit all the way through my land (pre war), declared war and then parked it on the forest (see below). That single unit sat there for the whole war ... did nothing. I started a phant and was preparing to whip it so that it was ready to defend. I didn't need the whip, I just let him finish naturally.
However, Ceasar did send a real force trying to take my newly acquired pyramids. I lost a bunch of units to this group but, lucky for me, Civil Services and the associated Macemen were available next turn.
Then Monty wanted some payback so he declared war on me. My phants had lots of fun killing his jags and chariots - it was like shooting fish in a barrel. With my spys in Mongolia, I could see his units coming from a few turns away. He soon settled for giving me a bunch of money to end his war. Ceasar wasn't so easy, I had to take one of his cities before he saw the wisdom of coming to the peace table (another 180g for me).