Recent content by Araius

You have Music so you can build culture where you haven't had a border pop like Bulawayo. You're building libraries in places that need granaries (Thebes). Markets are a pretty rare build due to their high :hammers: requirement. Often better to build wealth and just take the 150 :gold: right...

Warrior near Chicago should be scouting Egypt. You should send one of your Boston warriors to scout Zulu. Chicago should build a Granary and not a Library. If a city has any potential for growth it should get a Granary ASAP. Remeber that to two pop whip axemen you need to have less than five...

The 'Mids is Stone and not Marble, maybe you meant the Great Library as you were thinking of getting Literature? I'm reluctant to give advice at this open point of the game since I'm a mere Immortal player and I feel this forum is a sea of Deity players. What I can say is that if you want to be...

You're building a riverless cottage in your capital when there's a perfectly nice river to build cottages next to. Philadelphia should probably be working the wheat at some point otherwise it's not going to grow much at all. I'd prioritse building roads to connect your cities (You'll get four...

New York shouldn't be working the unimproved cow right now, there are better tiles to work. Remember that Expansive gives extra :hammers: for every four :hammers: and gives NO extra bonus on surplus :food: when building workers. Talking about unimproved cow, you should probably improve that...

Barbarian cities can show up as early as turn 30 on Monarch so there's a good reason to fogbust new city sites.

Another thing to consider is that you need to tech Animal Husbandry for sheep and that the sheep is only going to give four :food:. A lot of the early game is about getting settlers and workers out as quickly as humanly possible and for that you need :food: for whipping and/or forests for...

Yeah, settling on plains hills with your first settler if you have the Expansive trait is usually pretty good, though obviously you have to consider the bigger picture with every settle. The plains hill gives an extra :hammers: for the city tile. If you mix that with working a tile with two...

Tried the map again and won Diplomatic on turn 277 :D

Considering all the hills I hope it's a rocky map so the AI can struggle to get going. If it's not, well it's quite the unfortunate looking start. Will try this map on Immortal. Might need some tips around warfare. I can generally out beaker the AI, but I tend to find they successfully rush me...

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As civac says, specialists are mainly used for GPPs and when you're at the happiness cap. A non-river grassland tile with a town gives 2F and 4C (5C with Printing Press). Nothing to scoff at. The reason you want a lot of workers early is partially so you can avoid having any cities work...

You're having a bit of a commerce problem. 6 more pop or 3 more units is gonna put you in the red. I feel like you need more cottages pronto and you have a worker shortage too. Should have around 15 workers maybe by now. I assume you're building farms for the golden age? Not sure if you'd even...