Recent content by Build2Much

As someone who recently decided to do just this, I didn’t really find my weaknesses until I got to immortal, but I had a lot of bad habits to unlearn (still learning but much better now). I had definite deficiencies in: -Fog busting, barb management -Over emphasizing long term vs short term...

In fact I do! Here is the opening, it is a fractal map, warrior has not moved yet - I played this opening multiple times, I really wanted to max out my flood plains by moving my settler 1 NW (I eventually decided this was not the best move). Other options are to settle the wine, move 2S1E or...

New situation for me - playing a game as Qin, it is 1535AD and it is setting up for a showdown between me and my 3 vassals vs Zara and his 2 vassals. Zara and I have been at friendly for a long time, he has been plotting at friendly, I assumed against Charley who I was at war with. I have just...

I wound up taking the advice of growing to size 3 before settler and settling 3E1N for the gems. Limited New York long term to size 12ish, but was far better in the early game - was possible to whip because there was food to grow back. Just enough commerce in the empire to get to 4 cities...

Again, I get fixated on the gems and didn’t look south at all. So you like the land grab with the cow and the extra hammer? Edit - you are correct that by this point I knew GLH wasn’t my likely path, but I still think it made sense for the start.

3E1N is what I assumed a better player would do when I thought about what I did after the fact. Still get the gems I can work immediately but can also grow on rice. I never even considered it the first time, I always go too far away, especially if I think there will be a battle for land with...

There is problem 1 - probably should have gotten to size 3. I have scouted south to SBs borders. Pic of that land and what I can see of Mansa for full info. I know that they are so close that I shouldn’t have crazy barb issues. (Trying to take similar route to what I did the first time and not...

Perfect - my thoughts were reasonable. I have played this map all the way through and I know I can win it, but I think I messed up the opening a bit - here is question part 2: I have gone AH>Mining>BW (not finished BW). I know that Sitting Bull is close to the south, Mansa is close to the east...

Roosevelt, Immortal, Fractal. Not planning on a full shadow or anything, but have this opening that I think has 2 good options and just curious what would be considered “best” with the available info. I already moved the warrior to reveal the coast which I already could tell was there. I do not...

I just logged in for the first time in a while to ask about an opening to see if I’m looking at things correctly, apparently a popular topic this week!

It is definitely possible some of the time on this map to lib scientific method > communism > physics, but then you have to backtrack to Cuirs (or at least that’s how it worked in my case).

My 3 GS thing definitely works, glad I practiced that because for this capital I think that could be very strong if used properly. I could hit Optics around 200AD in the run I just did, but needed to slow down at the end of my teching because I couldn’t get the boats out. I used @Henrik75 city...

I think I’m going to start a fresh game with this map, I have a great person question I didn’t find the answer to, and I assume I should already know this at this level. If I were to have 2 scientists running in 3 different cities all starting on the same turn, it appears 51 turns later you can...

@sampsa the city placement stuff I’ve done for years and gotten away with at lower levels definitely starts to make a difference at this level, and particularly in this map where the AI is capable of keeping up with my tech pace. I absolutely understand now why everyone chooses the tile 1 N of...

Either every or almost every “better” player has put the eastern river city (your “other” city example) off the coast. I would have never even considered it because it “only” took a monument to pop the 2nd flood plain. Dealing with emancipation in this game as early as 1400AD has been a harsh...