Anyone else enjoy Venitians too much?
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Yzman
Deity
I totally agree. I bet had they thought of it sooner they would have done this for the Huns instead of "get other civs city names". They would probably need to give them another military bonus of some kind though but maybe not. It just seems like it would be too much of a one trick pony. You would HAVE to rush.
Interestingly enough, Mongolia played like this in my current game. They had their original city, but never founded any others. Instead they took over the 2 CS near them. Unfortunately for them Siam conquered them and liberated those CS and Mongolia was gone, but it was different to say the least.
Venice and the Freedom tenet that gives you +4 influence a turn from trade routes is so horribly broken it hurts
There's also the Freedom tenet that lets you buy spaceship parts
Venice is completely amazing with Freedom basically
There's also the Freedom tenet that lets you buy spaceship parts
Venice is completely amazing with Freedom basically
Polisurgist
King
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Of course, after getting my hopes up and doing a serious delve as Venice yesterday, I'm somehow finding myself getting completely spanked in GPT terms by every civ I meet. I'm in the early Renaissance and making something like 12 GPT. Not sure where I went wrong.
budweiser
King of the Beers
I guess so. It should be more like 200gpt. Make sure Venice is huge.
Wuddel
Warlord
My game just took a turn for the worse. Currently running with Autocracy Venice complete with Prora on a continents map. This will be a close one.
budweiser
King of the Beers
Not, that I cant figure things out for myself, but what does he think is important?
bud, so far it is massive growth (he's at size 9-10 with +20 food) in order to fill in all of the future specialists slots. He's also growing into production since that is one of the banes of Venice. Trade routes are also important since they start with 4 and one should take advantage of them asap. One of his routes, though, is to bring in 7 food from a puppeted city-state.
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Venice sounds like too much fun. I think I will save them for last so the others don't feel like a letdown by comparison.
budweiser
King of the Beers
Thanks for the reply. I am doing all that.
Note: later on you can assign multiple hammer caravans back to Venice for 30 turns ea if you need hammers for someting like wonders or World's fair or World Games.
drubell
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I only played one game and just on Prince (was learning the ropes on culture and WC) but my Venice was in like the best location ever. There was a large mountain range that separated Venice from the rest of my continent (I never had to defend it once). Massive massive unchecked sea route trade (one of my AIs was actually parking ships at my trade routes to protect them so I didn't even need to do that myself.
At the end of the game I was sporting over 700 GPT. I'm sure people could beat that GPT but I decided to just have 3 extra merchant cities.
Only war I had was with Byzantium because I couldn't finish a culture victory until she was wiped out. Just purchased 18 great war bombers nearby (6 per turn from my 3 extra cities) and crushed her in a few turns (But that's Prince difficulty for you).
Playing trade empire is pretty fun
At the end of the game I was sporting over 700 GPT. I'm sure people could beat that GPT but I decided to just have 3 extra merchant cities.
Only war I had was with Byzantium because I couldn't finish a culture victory until she was wiped out. Just purchased 18 great war bombers nearby (6 per turn from my 3 extra cities) and crushed her in a few turns (But that's Prince difficulty for you).
Playing trade empire is pretty fun
I bee lined to optics and bought a coastal CS (Ur) with sights set on another CS along the way. I researched toward caravans next, but by then my scouts were over burdened by raging barbs.
This game is clearly a fail, and is also my first taste of Venice (King, Mediterranean, Standard).
My strategy with new civs is to rush tech that take advantage of the Civ's unique qualities (UI, UB, UA, UU, etc). In Venice case, I should have rushed a Caravan first in order to deal with the rising cost of expansion.
This game is clearly a fail, and is also my first taste of Venice (King, Mediterranean, Standard).
My strategy with new civs is to rush tech that take advantage of the Civ's unique qualities (UI, UB, UA, UU, etc). In Venice case, I should have rushed a Caravan first in order to deal with the rising cost of expansion.
budweiser
King of the Beers
City of brick --> city of marble.
Just focus on early growth with some self defense against barbs. The rest will come in time.
Just focus on early growth with some self defense against barbs. The rest will come in time.
