City Planning

Hey guys, I posted this on the end of the last thread I posted, but felt it may need its own discussion.

"Let me add hat once Stonehenge is built, I start cranking out either archers or whatever is available to me. These units I usually have scout out new city places, and what I like to do is take a couple of them (2 or 3 TOPS) and fortify them where I want my next cities to be. This does a couple things: first, I don't forget where I want my new cities and it helps me plan them better. Second, it takes away the fog of war near my city borders thus making barbarians spawn further away (or not at all in the area if all the fog is lifted) and gives my settlers a clear path to make it out there without an escort (not always the case if I notice barbarians roaming). Lastly, if barbarians do come and attack my fortified archers, they will usually win and gain experience so when the settler comes, it already has an upgraded defender.

*Note: Even on Prince, barbarians tend to go for these fortified archers before my cities. At one point I had an archer to level 4 before I got a settler out to him.

Later guys.
-UberCivver

You can also use them as real keeper of the borderlands, putting a bowman every 5/6 tiles, fortified in a forrest, so :
- no fog of war = no surprising attacks from barbarians
- natural defense since as like Ubercivver said the barbarian goes to them (making them stronger each time)
- have "elite troops" at the edge of your realm as to have nice defense when you go on funding city. They can also be very useful to make out-of-the-war-zone workers kidnappings in wartime (those units are obviously not centred in other civ zones since they are where barbarian come from).


Also use fighters / axewarriors that earned forrest-living (fast move + increased defense), you usually have a few ones from the exploration time.

I like Ubercivver's tactic, and will employ it immediately. I haven't done a good enough job of protecting my settlers, and regular warriors aren't always effective against barbs.

I like placing those guys on hills for the visual range if there are any around

Cyberian,
Yah, hills are the best place to station them, especially if there is one near where you want your city, extra defense and extra line of sight, sweet.
-UberCivver