prince_caspian
Prince
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Like some general advice on this. No matter which civ I try one problem I always encounter is I'm unable to contain the runaway civ on the other landmass(es) and that gives them a tech lead which despite my best I'm just playing catch up. I want to make them cry on their own land but I just can't! I'm pretty sure there's something I'm not doing right - I just don't know what. And I'm still on Emperor!
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I'm training on one civ at a time to get used to its tech flow, battle strat. Currently playing Korea, I almost always tech Pottery -> Writing to get OB asap unless there's a lot of mining luxs in which case I'd tech Mining first. Then Philosophy.
Building wise, I'd rush for GL right after Writing as I understand that Korea gets a RA like boost for building it, free tech aside. By this point I'd probably be getting the free settler and worker from Liberty and popping the second city. Then depending on what neighbors I have - if I have India or Washington who are generally peacable, from Philosophy then I continue onto Education plopping the free GS/GE from the Liberty finisher, HS, ND/PT etc.
But one thing that really bothers me when playing Korea is you will almost never get a peaceful neighbor - you'll get the likes of Napoleon, Oda, Genghis, Monty who always want to DOW you just because they have 8 warriors. That forces me to beeline to Physics right after Philosophy which results in getting it rather late, around T120 something. If I have excess cash I can just buy them if not I'd unfortunately have to hard build. But it's still early enough on Emperor I guess, to 1-hit those swordsmen and around this time I'd be able to dominate my continent with 4-5 of those hwachas.
Then it starts to spiral downwards when I beeline to Astronomy and send scouts to find the other civs, turtle ships not being able to enter ocean hexes. *sigh* I'd most definitely find one civ that is starting to get runaway and at this point I can't do anything much about it. I have those guarded, hostile civs waiting to DOW me the moment I draw hwachas away and if I continue building hwachas to DOW the other landmass I can't get my Oxford university, workshops, etc. So it's like if I want to fight an endless war I can't develop, but if I don't get those universities my hwachas will not last long enough before everyone else starts churning out riflemen, and the other landmass will soon be run over by a dominant boss.
Building wise, I'd rush for GL right after Writing as I understand that Korea gets a RA like boost for building it, free tech aside. By this point I'd probably be getting the free settler and worker from Liberty and popping the second city. Then depending on what neighbors I have - if I have India or Washington who are generally peacable, from Philosophy then I continue onto Education plopping the free GS/GE from the Liberty finisher, HS, ND/PT etc.
Spoiler :
A nice thing about Korea is if you want to get the Liberty finisher asap and for that you run temple specialists (snarzberry's advice), you also get a bit of beakers too which is nifty. Not to mention another RA-like boost the moment you finish NC
But one thing that really bothers me when playing Korea is you will almost never get a peaceful neighbor - you'll get the likes of Napoleon, Oda, Genghis, Monty who always want to DOW you just because they have 8 warriors. That forces me to beeline to Physics right after Philosophy which results in getting it rather late, around T120 something. If I have excess cash I can just buy them if not I'd unfortunately have to hard build. But it's still early enough on Emperor I guess, to 1-hit those swordsmen and around this time I'd be able to dominate my continent with 4-5 of those hwachas.
Then it starts to spiral downwards when I beeline to Astronomy and send scouts to find the other civs, turtle ships not being able to enter ocean hexes. *sigh* I'd most definitely find one civ that is starting to get runaway and at this point I can't do anything much about it. I have those guarded, hostile civs waiting to DOW me the moment I draw hwachas away and if I continue building hwachas to DOW the other landmass I can't get my Oxford university, workshops, etc. So it's like if I want to fight an endless war I can't develop, but if I don't get those universities my hwachas will not last long enough before everyone else starts churning out riflemen, and the other landmass will soon be run over by a dominant boss.