Chemical Toilet
Chieftain
I know there have been several similar threads lately but none of them really addressed some questions I have.
I always go liberty, regardless of if I'm going tall or wide, for the free worker, the pyramids, and the free settler. Recently this has been getting pretty bland and I've been wanting to explore the other start trees but I haven't had near the same success as I usually do with Liberty.
Now, I'm looking at Tradition. (but this should also cover honor and piety). My early game strategy is:
Build a scout, then monument/shrine, granary, then I rush Stonehenge, Pyramids, and the MoH. The reason for this is I depend on Stonehenge to secure a better chance at grabbing a religion with the beliefs I want. I guess pyramids isn't that big of a deal, but I like the faster tile improvement and free workers that allow me to focus on building other things. MoH of course is for the gold bonuses, which I don't nessecerially I need I guess, sometimes the AI beats me to it anyway.
But my other problem with the other trees is, with my current strategy, I don't have time to build a worker or another settler fast enough, and if I don't get atleast the worker, my entire game suffers.
Do I need to sacrifice one of my wonders in order to make the other trees, particularly Tradition, work? Some posters have mentioned that they steal a worker from a CS, but this isn't always an easy task. I usually either don't have enough CSs around, or they simply aren't afraid of my (small) army.
How do you guys manage the other trees? Any advice? I play on Prince, by the way.
I always go liberty, regardless of if I'm going tall or wide, for the free worker, the pyramids, and the free settler. Recently this has been getting pretty bland and I've been wanting to explore the other start trees but I haven't had near the same success as I usually do with Liberty.
Now, I'm looking at Tradition. (but this should also cover honor and piety). My early game strategy is:
Build a scout, then monument/shrine, granary, then I rush Stonehenge, Pyramids, and the MoH. The reason for this is I depend on Stonehenge to secure a better chance at grabbing a religion with the beliefs I want. I guess pyramids isn't that big of a deal, but I like the faster tile improvement and free workers that allow me to focus on building other things. MoH of course is for the gold bonuses, which I don't nessecerially I need I guess, sometimes the AI beats me to it anyway.
But my other problem with the other trees is, with my current strategy, I don't have time to build a worker or another settler fast enough, and if I don't get atleast the worker, my entire game suffers.
Do I need to sacrifice one of my wonders in order to make the other trees, particularly Tradition, work? Some posters have mentioned that they steal a worker from a CS, but this isn't always an easy task. I usually either don't have enough CSs around, or they simply aren't afraid of my (small) army.
How do you guys manage the other trees? Any advice? I play on Prince, by the way.