corranhorn01
Chieftain
I've recently started play Immortal (jumping from King) and I'm having a little bit of difficulty with a couple of points in my games. Namely Diplomacy and Happiness/Gold.
I'm playing random civs and following the standard 3 city tradition route (aiming for science victory).
First game was as Askia. I got Education T119 and was on track for ST at ~T175-180. I had a DoF with Egypt and about T140, he back-stabbed me because on how weak my military was.
My main issues this game were:
Forgetting to keep up military (I had 2 archers...)
Poor cities (really good first one - stone, marble, deer and 2 silks, an ok 2nd one - 2 iron, citrus and sugar - damn Shoshone took my ideal 2nd city place, and a poor 3rd city - 1 bannana, 1 silk and no production (60+ turn granary...))
Unhappiness
Second game was Babylon. I got a pretty good first city again and stole a settler from America (I got the spot he was going (2nd city) to settle 1-2 turns before he got there). I got Education on T114 and was on track for ST ~T165-170. I was friendly with America and Atilla and had a decent military. On T160 I got DoWed by Atilla for some reason (I'd bribed Ghengis to DoW him earlier to get him off my back) and managed to hold him, then 2 turns later got back-stabbed by America who quickly took over my main production city (with 2-3 trebuchets, lots of swordsmen and crossbows). I just retired here. Unfortunately I was at -1 happiness and had like 30 gp at +1 gpt and couldn't get anyone to declare on either
Washington got grumpy with me T115 when I settled my 3rd city to the south of me because it was 'in lands he considers his own' and he was on my north side??
Issues:
Diplomacy - I wasn't weakest in military, but was in approval. Not sure why, I was being nice to everyone.
America's (who got Terracotta Army) Capital was about 7-8 tiles north of my capital and Atilla was directly to my south -.-.
Unhappiness
So my common issues are:
Diplomacy - I'm not sure what I could've done better tbh
Unhappiness
Social Policies - not sure what to go after Tradition finisher (Asthetics or Patronage)??
Can anyone please offer advice on what I can do to help with these issues?
I'm playing random civs and following the standard 3 city tradition route (aiming for science victory).
First game was as Askia. I got Education T119 and was on track for ST at ~T175-180. I had a DoF with Egypt and about T140, he back-stabbed me because on how weak my military was.
My main issues this game were:
Forgetting to keep up military (I had 2 archers...)
Poor cities (really good first one - stone, marble, deer and 2 silks, an ok 2nd one - 2 iron, citrus and sugar - damn Shoshone took my ideal 2nd city place, and a poor 3rd city - 1 bannana, 1 silk and no production (60+ turn granary...))
Unhappiness
Second game was Babylon. I got a pretty good first city again and stole a settler from America (I got the spot he was going (2nd city) to settle 1-2 turns before he got there). I got Education on T114 and was on track for ST ~T165-170. I was friendly with America and Atilla and had a decent military. On T160 I got DoWed by Atilla for some reason (I'd bribed Ghengis to DoW him earlier to get him off my back) and managed to hold him, then 2 turns later got back-stabbed by America who quickly took over my main production city (with 2-3 trebuchets, lots of swordsmen and crossbows). I just retired here. Unfortunately I was at -1 happiness and had like 30 gp at +1 gpt and couldn't get anyone to declare on either
Washington got grumpy with me T115 when I settled my 3rd city to the south of me because it was 'in lands he considers his own' and he was on my north side??
Issues:
Diplomacy - I wasn't weakest in military, but was in approval. Not sure why, I was being nice to everyone.
America's (who got Terracotta Army) Capital was about 7-8 tiles north of my capital and Atilla was directly to my south -.-.
Unhappiness
So my common issues are:
Diplomacy - I'm not sure what I could've done better tbh
Unhappiness
Social Policies - not sure what to go after Tradition finisher (Asthetics or Patronage)??
Can anyone please offer advice on what I can do to help with these issues?