Way of the Samurai

Culture's beginnings:
rice-planting songs from the heart
of the country 

4000 BC
But what shall our people eat?

The starting position against the sea and lacking any grassland is not promising. There is wheat which we can mine(!) for shields. We move our worker there first -- before founding our capital. 

The tepid rain falls
On the bare thorn.

4000 BC
An Observation

But look! What is that to the northeast? It's a river delta! We will migrate to the river and settle there. The only danger is if the area is already settled on this small, crowded world.

Take your time before making important decisions. It is easy to overlook the better move through haste. The choices you make in the early game will have huge effects in later times.   

3850 BC
A Better View

Not only have we found grassland, but fields of wheat, a river for trade, floodplains to help our capital grow, horses, hills and mountains to mine. But look again! There is another tribe to the north.