plumsmugler
Chieftain
- Joined
- May 4, 2012
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I was wondering what people usually try to do when they are on a crowded continent and are going for either a tech or diplo victory.
Obviously both these victories require you to have a good sized empire which means you want to take the liberty policy track and plop as many cities down as fast as you can. However, this gets rather tricky on a crowded continent.
On my last play through I was Korea and was sharing a continent with Askia, Napoleon, and Otto. (The most ideal neighbors to have for sure!) When I go for this victory I usually get my first settler through the Collective Rule social policy. (The one that gives you a free settler.) However, on King difficulty the AI are usually founding cities before you can even do that, which Askia did right next to my capital.
I figured I'd take the first day in prison strategy and beat the out of the first civ I saw which was him. I captured his first city and went in to finish off his capital but it was in a well defended spot with an archer so I was unable to take it.
At the same time I founded a couple of other cities, one of which was in the middle of the continent. Yaddda yadda yadda it's turn 100 and literally every single civ on the continent has declared war on me. I even had to deal with the ridiculous situation of having one of my cities completely surrounded by Germany and literally every single hex behind them was occupied by a Frenchman waiting for his turn to pound on me.
So what the hell are you supposed to do if you are going for one of these victories and are on a crowded continent? It seems like your two options are to turtle and just be happy with your two-three cities in terrible spots or have the entire continent declare war on you.
Obviously both these victories require you to have a good sized empire which means you want to take the liberty policy track and plop as many cities down as fast as you can. However, this gets rather tricky on a crowded continent.
On my last play through I was Korea and was sharing a continent with Askia, Napoleon, and Otto. (The most ideal neighbors to have for sure!) When I go for this victory I usually get my first settler through the Collective Rule social policy. (The one that gives you a free settler.) However, on King difficulty the AI are usually founding cities before you can even do that, which Askia did right next to my capital.
I figured I'd take the first day in prison strategy and beat the out of the first civ I saw which was him. I captured his first city and went in to finish off his capital but it was in a well defended spot with an archer so I was unable to take it.
At the same time I founded a couple of other cities, one of which was in the middle of the continent. Yaddda yadda yadda it's turn 100 and literally every single civ on the continent has declared war on me. I even had to deal with the ridiculous situation of having one of my cities completely surrounded by Germany and literally every single hex behind them was occupied by a Frenchman waiting for his turn to pound on me.
So what the hell are you supposed to do if you are going for one of these victories and are on a crowded continent? It seems like your two options are to turtle and just be happy with your two-three cities in terrible spots or have the entire continent declare war on you.