Ouch. Sorry for further gratuitous Civilization IV updatage, but ouch and a half. In a recent game I played as the Inka (or Inca as the game has it) and didn't get horses until 1585. Har-de-har, Civilization IV. But this time out as Gandhi, I didn't get horses until 1865 I think, and it was awful. Mind you, I won, and easily, but it took for-freakin'-ever! So apparently, the big key is finding horses quickly.
On the remote chance that anybody might be curious why that would be, it's because of barbarians. The game starts at 4000 BC but rushes along for the first couple of millennia. At first the only barbarians are wild animals; these are easy to avoid if you want to. Then there are marauding human barbarians, who are harder to avoid. Then, starting about 1000 BC, the barbarians settle down and make towns. Then you can go take them away from them, which saves a lot of settler-building time, and also lets you have towns on the other side of rivals' territories. Without horses, you can't get there fast enough. Boy howdy! Ouch!
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