JunglistGuy
Chieftain
Hey all, been reading these forums for 4-5 years, decided to join finally lol. Anyways, the way I like to play Civ is by waging war, I currently play on warlord(I'm not very good player) and have a win rate of about 25-30%, looking to better myself and move onto higher difficulties before trying multiplayer...I mostly played Warlords but now play BTS since a friend finally got it 
I play as Washington, almost always on a huge continental map, epic speed, conquest victory and no city flipping from culture(it pissed me off too much in one game lol)
Since I play conquest only I find one of the most important things to me is research, as a general rule of thumb I try to never let it go below 80%, having it at 70% for a little while, if I run 60% or below for too long I usually quit.
The way I tech up once I get past the opening (the first few techs you research is pretty straight forward depending on city placement) is going straight for important military tech, and once hitting a couple milestones I have set I go back and grab some key economic ones to help boost the economy. I tend to wage a war shortly after hitting certain points in military tech as I have no problem out teching the AI up until 17-1900AD.
The way I build my empire is pretty standard I feel, found cities near resources and try to found on tiles where it is easier to specialize...all mines around you for hammers, plains with a gold coin for gold and then some food towns. I generally build a cottage on every tile except ones where I can have a farm produce a full loaf of bread(this excludes my first city as I build 2-3 farms to help population growth)
The civics I usually take are Universal Suffrage (cottage spam plus extra hammer I find is nice...usually get pyramid wonder to unlock this right away or I take Hereditary until then), Nationhood(usually take no civic until this due to high upkeep), Slavery(never changes), Free Markets(usually don't take a diff civic until I can get this) and Organized Religion(which usually never changes since I mostly end up founding Christianity or spread my nations religion I adopt)
I try and trade with everyone I can until people start getting upset about it and this helps me stay in the green. I always try and make at least 1-2 friends for war allies(I usually play with 11-12 AIs)
One thing I do do that I haven't seen mentioned in the forums yet (perhaps one of my weaknesses) is I usually keep almost all the cities I capture. I find this helps expand my economy(even though you take a hit when you first capture a city, I typically am busy rolling through others, growing the coffers enough to withstand the negative impact until either the war ends or it starts making me more gold) I find this also helps me pump out units really well as I almost always end up in 1-3 wars of pure attrition. Also this prevents the AIs taking over the land and I find it is far easier to monitor a continents entire coast line in the mid-late game preventing amphibious attacks on the homeland...
One thing I am really bad at in this game is building wonders...most of my wonders end up not completing and I get gold. I always try and read what resource helps speed production if any do.
I also have a habit of building a road on a tile after the improvement is made...is this bad? Do roads increase the commerce generated? Do people play conquest only multiplayer?
Any points would help.
I play as Washington, almost always on a huge continental map, epic speed, conquest victory and no city flipping from culture(it pissed me off too much in one game lol)
Since I play conquest only I find one of the most important things to me is research, as a general rule of thumb I try to never let it go below 80%, having it at 70% for a little while, if I run 60% or below for too long I usually quit.
The way I tech up once I get past the opening (the first few techs you research is pretty straight forward depending on city placement) is going straight for important military tech, and once hitting a couple milestones I have set I go back and grab some key economic ones to help boost the economy. I tend to wage a war shortly after hitting certain points in military tech as I have no problem out teching the AI up until 17-1900AD.
The way I build my empire is pretty standard I feel, found cities near resources and try to found on tiles where it is easier to specialize...all mines around you for hammers, plains with a gold coin for gold and then some food towns. I generally build a cottage on every tile except ones where I can have a farm produce a full loaf of bread(this excludes my first city as I build 2-3 farms to help population growth)
The civics I usually take are Universal Suffrage (cottage spam plus extra hammer I find is nice...usually get pyramid wonder to unlock this right away or I take Hereditary until then), Nationhood(usually take no civic until this due to high upkeep), Slavery(never changes), Free Markets(usually don't take a diff civic until I can get this) and Organized Religion(which usually never changes since I mostly end up founding Christianity or spread my nations religion I adopt)
I try and trade with everyone I can until people start getting upset about it and this helps me stay in the green. I always try and make at least 1-2 friends for war allies(I usually play with 11-12 AIs)
One thing I do do that I haven't seen mentioned in the forums yet (perhaps one of my weaknesses) is I usually keep almost all the cities I capture. I find this helps expand my economy(even though you take a hit when you first capture a city, I typically am busy rolling through others, growing the coffers enough to withstand the negative impact until either the war ends or it starts making me more gold) I find this also helps me pump out units really well as I almost always end up in 1-3 wars of pure attrition. Also this prevents the AIs taking over the land and I find it is far easier to monitor a continents entire coast line in the mid-late game preventing amphibious attacks on the homeland...
One thing I am really bad at in this game is building wonders...most of my wonders end up not completing and I get gold. I always try and read what resource helps speed production if any do.
I also have a habit of building a road on a tile after the improvement is made...is this bad? Do roads increase the commerce generated? Do people play conquest only multiplayer?
Any points would help.
is unmanageable. (By now, I've usually mostly electrified, so the whip isn't quite as useful.)
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from US. You have to have a lot of towns to capitalize on US so it is better later on in the game.
/turn. That's 100 turns before it has payed back the building cost compared to building wealth instead. And by building wealth, you get those 200
