Welcome aboard t-ras! To answer your question, why you are starting out doing the right thing by posting here, as other people looking for games will also now post to your thread and before long you'll have enough for a game. Second way is to look at this forum and wait for a thread, "Looking for replacement players", as there are always people dropping out for this reason or that. Finally, you can post to this thread as well:
http://www.civgaming.net/forums/show...1948#post11948
There is a game forming up right now which you can probably get into if you post real soon. FYI and good luck!
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