spindaslayer
Chieftain
- Joined
- Jun 19, 2016
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- 7
The game seems pretty good about making sure that your capital location is good, but every now and then you end up with immediately surrounding land of plains and tundra. My first instinct when I realize this is to beeline bronze working/animal husbandry, hook up copper/horses and take out a neighbor, even if they're a little far. I figure that the increased maintenance from distance is worth it for getting access to some better land, and I can settle the near land later when my economy is in a better state. (Some people advocate for regenerating the map, but that seems like cheating to me )
But sometimes this doesn't work. Sometimes you don't have strategic resources nearby. Sometimes your civilization doesn't start with the right techs to make a rush viable, and maybe your leader is very bad at recovering from economy crashes (looking at you, Tokugawa). Perhaps the nearest civ really is too far away for a rush to make sense, or maybe it's someone like Hammurabi/Sitting Bull/Mansa who are all really hard to take out early.
What do you guys do in such a situation? Do you suck it up and settle the land anyway, or are there other options I'm not considering? Perhaps building wonders to get a lead could be an option here if you don't focus on expansion.
But sometimes this doesn't work. Sometimes you don't have strategic resources nearby. Sometimes your civilization doesn't start with the right techs to make a rush viable, and maybe your leader is very bad at recovering from economy crashes (looking at you, Tokugawa). Perhaps the nearest civ really is too far away for a rush to make sense, or maybe it's someone like Hammurabi/Sitting Bull/Mansa who are all really hard to take out early.
What do you guys do in such a situation? Do you suck it up and settle the land anyway, or are there other options I'm not considering? Perhaps building wonders to get a lead could be an option here if you don't focus on expansion.