Dondorian City 5k
Central. Middle is a janitor distribution hub to pull from
West side carpentry, smelting, and smtihing
First attempt with Dondorians and first run of v71 coming from the demo. I can see why the game suggests hard for them. Cold climate, being so far up north limits neighbors, meat fish mushrooms are not very easy to mass produce, and have to happiness max as there's no children being born. Good fun though, but it's time for a break so I can try out other things.
Started with manually hunting and hunters workshop. Needed more food so built a massive fishing industry and city. Also built some pastures in the middle of the map which were later torn out to build city central. Dabbled in mushroom farming but those returns were pretty bad. Mountain building sucks. Not a fan. Didn't include a screenshot of my south city which is where I expanded the most early on, as a lot got gutted as I expanded into the other city sections.
When I attacked my small neighbor, my other neighbor got pissed off. Well I'll just fight them too and is that a cantor? That was a rude awakening and my entire army + mercs got demolished again and again until I could finally win. Eventually got a few cantors on my own which is good because I accidentally pissed off another neighbor expanding to the east and they sent a 4k army towards me with about 75 cantors. Once again, lost all my army but finally beat them back a bit and more so I could expand my cantor havens. Eventually pushed in the other direction which was blocked by a 9k army and an epic battle since I was outnumbered 9:1, but cantors saved the day.