Because of the lack of maintenance costs and corruption, as well as the number of bonus to each city events, city smallpox is a great strategy.
Build a production city near mountains, don't smallpox near the production city. This will be your only very productive city, as the others will suffer from tile overlap.
Get code of laws. Convert. Expansion phase 1.
Found a city at bare minimum distance. You should fill EVERY single inch with cities.
Go back to democracy for science boost.
You will have lots of cities, without much production, but lots of trade. In the industrial era, build libraries everywhere. At 20 hammers, it's great.
[By now, you should have a high tech lead. Use it to research techs that give you bonus per city to first discoverer]
When you have reached the modern era, it's time for expansion phase 2. Change back to republic, settle every inch of space. Only your outer cities needs defenses.
Your production city can be used for wonders and the space ship.
It's so easy to win with this. You can turn 1 population into 3 at early game, and 1 pop into 6 at late game.
Build a production city near mountains, don't smallpox near the production city. This will be your only very productive city, as the others will suffer from tile overlap.
Get code of laws. Convert. Expansion phase 1.
Found a city at bare minimum distance. You should fill EVERY single inch with cities.
Go back to democracy for science boost.
You will have lots of cities, without much production, but lots of trade. In the industrial era, build libraries everywhere. At 20 hammers, it's great.
[By now, you should have a high tech lead. Use it to research techs that give you bonus per city to first discoverer]
When you have reached the modern era, it's time for expansion phase 2. Change back to republic, settle every inch of space. Only your outer cities needs defenses.
Your production city can be used for wonders and the space ship.
It's so easy to win with this. You can turn 1 population into 3 at early game, and 1 pop into 6 at late game.
