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Ah thanks for the clarification. I was thinking something like this instead XXXXXX XUXXUX XXXXXX instead of XXXXXXXXXX XXUXXXXUXX XXXXXXXXXX

Well I realize part of my problem is I'm playing on the largest map with the the second slowest(IIRC) growth. So, my guess is that's not helping things as it pertains to barbs. As for the 2 by 2 area, are you just putting them in places barbs are attacking from? Because if you have 3 cities that...

Early on, how many workers should I be shooting for? Like say I've just built my third city. Is 6 workers not enough, good, or too many? 2 per city would seem to be about right to me to quickly build tiles in the early times. I've started to try and keep an eye on locations with at least 1 good...

My general early tech goes like this bronze working(+mining if needed), then to cottages(+ pre reqs). Then to alphabet to tech trade. and catch up some. As for buildings, my general focus is on terraces/gran to whip into production. If i get a copper city I try to make that a specialty...

I felt like a challenge last night so I started a game on Emp. Normally I play on whatever is below that. The problem I seemingly always have is my growth is just so much slower than the other AI civs. I decided to try a new tactic. Only making cities that would generate good revenue. I have...

Well I do play marathon with huge maps usually. So maybe that's the issue.

It might be that I'm not fog busting enough but I try to have a 360 radius around my territory. I usually sit on mountains to give better views. I use either scouts or axes usually. Sometimes I use warriors. I think the problem stems from the fact that on a lot of maps there will be a large...

Ok another question here. When do you make them capitulate? I normally play continents. I would think anyone on the same land mass you want to destroy unless you are at the far south and they are all the way at the north. If you're capital is in the middle I would say you probably want to just...

I am more of a builder than a warmonger but I'm noticing more and more I need to learn how to wage war properly in order to get to higher difficulty levels. In the current game I'm playing(Monarchy), I used the steal worker trick on japan. They were a close neighbor with copper between us...

No i'm just playing a standard "play now" game.

Barbs totally piss me off most of the time. I don't mind them in small groups. However, it seems like in every decent game I start they become unmanageable very quickly. Take the game I'm currently in for instance. It's 770 BC. I have 4 cities built with the dutch. I have a handful of fog...

Well I chop rushed the second worker as I recall. So it isn't as terrible as it seems. I agree about the fish thing. I probably should have went after it sooner. As for worker worker settler, I find that it seems to work ok. I use some time after those to build it up. That why I went library...

Oh and I went and traded sailing for AH, priesthood, meditation, and poly. And then I traded mysticism for hunting. Edit: I've been playing the game some more and I'm thinking about going after Cyrus as soon as I get whatever tech gives vassal abilities. I probably should gun for him now but I...

I've been trying to teach myself to play on monarch for awhile now. I've got some advice before but people wanted a game save. So I started a random leader game on pangea. I wasn't totally thrilled with my start location but I kept it and started playing. Initial build was worker worker...

Thanks for the advice. Some replies. I generally try to keep 2 in garrison and others for fob busters though as of late I've decided it's probably more worth while going after the great wall early. As for the 70% thing, I was mainly talking about early in the game. In other words I found my...

Do you predetermine you will use it or do you wait and see what your start situation is. Or i guess another option would be to regen map until you get a start you like. I would think that if you see 6+ flood plains you would instantly think SE or if you see a lot of livestock/grain tiles.

I'm much more of a builder than a war monger. I'm trying to break this habit but early wars aren't something I like. I'm used to attacking with more better units in the late game though I think that may need to change. So here's a little run down of my early game: I usually play huge...

I sorta wish barbs were more like the warlord scenario in that you have a "camp" unit. If you kill that unit the hoard will stop for awhile until another camp is spawned. To me that would be more realistic as generally speaking barbarians are led by a leader and if he's killed it tends to stop...

Well I'm starting to see the value of the great wall. I mean this last game i was playing I had 2 axemen and a warrior in each of my 3 cities. Everything was great..... until the swarm came. At one point one of my cities had an archer an axe 2 warriors. Another had 1 axe and 1 warrior and my...

I like longer games and usually play marathon or epic games and I ALWAYS have a problem with barbs. I'm thinking that plus my large map size is my problem. It seems that right around the time I get my 4th city they become a huge pain. I am trying to play on monarch and the difficulty makes this...