On Monarch level techs come a lot quicker. Huge size maps will make techs take longer. You seem to be well ahead of the AI tech wise but you should be on Monarch level.
You only have 6 cities on a huge map.Hannibal is up to 19 cities. Long term that is an issue if you don't spam cuirs or another unit soon. The AI on other continents will be spamming cities.
Not sure you need Great Library. Adds very little after liberalism is gone. There was no point taking nationalism from Liberalism as no one was close to it. Looks like you didn't GS bulb liberalism as you already had machinery. Which means you self teched it. Pretty sure a great scientist would of bulbed much of that.
For me I seem to spend a lot of the BC era fighting at least 1-2 wars which is usually why I am bit later to CS. On Marathan speed you could of easily abused HA/Axes or phants with such a strong commerce start. Don't get comfortable on 5-6 cities on huge maps. My recent Joall game on a normal map i had 16 or so cities by 1ad. Land=power. If you stick to a small empire you want a break out strategy as you won't win a huge map with 6 cities. I guess with cuirs you can capture much of the nearest 2 AI land. Aim for 20-25+ cities before taking any vassals.
Not sure point of playing marathan speed if you are going to stick to 5-6 cities. You pretty much are clicking enter each turn if you have no worker moves.
You only have 6 cities on a huge map.Hannibal is up to 19 cities. Long term that is an issue if you don't spam cuirs or another unit soon. The AI on other continents will be spamming cities.
Not sure you need Great Library. Adds very little after liberalism is gone. There was no point taking nationalism from Liberalism as no one was close to it. Looks like you didn't GS bulb liberalism as you already had machinery. Which means you self teched it. Pretty sure a great scientist would of bulbed much of that.
For me I seem to spend a lot of the BC era fighting at least 1-2 wars which is usually why I am bit later to CS. On Marathan speed you could of easily abused HA/Axes or phants with such a strong commerce start. Don't get comfortable on 5-6 cities on huge maps. My recent Joall game on a normal map i had 16 or so cities by 1ad. Land=power. If you stick to a small empire you want a break out strategy as you won't win a huge map with 6 cities. I guess with cuirs you can capture much of the nearest 2 AI land. Aim for 20-25+ cities before taking any vassals.
Not sure point of playing marathan speed if you are going to stick to 5-6 cities. You pretty much are clicking enter each turn if you have no worker moves.
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