I would appreciate some exposition on why 3-city Liberty can be stronger for early warmongering than 3-city liberty Tradition. Thanks!
I would appreciate some exposition on why 3-city Liberty can be stronger for early warmongering than 3-citylibertyTradition. Thanks!
- build Pyramids and get it > 85% of the time (best wonder in game for war and for getting started - do NOT underestimate 2 more free workers)
If my starting location is that bad I expend a couple of turns to move to a superior location. It works wonders. Then my expansion goes where my settler originally started because spawns are usually at least decent.
This has the (usually) unfortunate downside that if the nearby AIs haven't settled their 2nd city before you'll settle the capital outside the original border range they'll start moving to your starting spot and will surely beat your 1st optional settler there.
Nonsense, sorry. I regularly build 3 and conquer the rest.
Against what? Prince AI? Try doing that in a real FFA with humans.
If this happens then you still have a capital that's much better than it would have been. Basically all your saying is that the AI gets a free settler and can settle wherever they want before you. Yeah, that's true and so they could take the superior spot first as well.
Those of us that enjoy early war know that Tradition is a distant 3rd for this.
1) Sacred Sites Cultural Victory (Not full liberty, but more liberty than tradition!)
2) Free Liberty GM Cultural Victory (nuke all opponents, GM bomb the last one when you complete Liberty... before they can generate enough culture)
Does SS CV allow for policies outside of Piety? Or is that a possibility now that Reformation is earlier in the Piety tree?
I am not familiar with this one! Is there a DCL or something where this is demonstrated? I would love to read more, but is it really much different than super fast early domination? If you can kill all-but-one of the AI opponents before closing out your first policy tree, what chance does the last AI have?