Recent content by justanick

For a developed empire the amount of cities with low or semi-low corruption is essentially a constant. So at least as far as the corruption model from C3C 1.22 is concerned that has never been a true issue. Still, those cities in the core and semi-core are best off to be as large as sensibly...

There is the caveat, that culture lead does effect AI attitude.

Then you need to pay the price for beauty. Either with money or with blood. The choice is yours.

Barricades can offen some protection. Moving onto an enemy barricade reduces movement points to zero.

You can decrease the amount of workers turns it takes to clear swamp and jungle tiles. You could also increase the food production of those tiles. Also for all AIs except for the Maya you can increase their workers production. Only the Maya prioritize them.

To be fair: The land is far from small. The starting continent offers enough territory for 32 metros and prior to hospitals for 40 cities. Given that, the pyramids offer a great deal, at least if an SGL is available for it. Similar is true for Sun Tzu. Building only 5 barracks can work out, but...

I donnot like to disagree that much about that. But if the goal is to simply keep down unit support while facing only pikes at best, then going for only 4/4 cavalry and no cannons and no Enkidus will work better as it will shorten wars significantly.

A clear first priority is to utilize as many tiles as possible. This dwarfs other considerations and implies a settling pattern that looks for water tiles first and then close gaps within the continent second. A second priority is to utilize the given amount of tiles with as few cities as...

You have an incredible undersized military and often just regulars instead of veterans. Even more disturbing: You still succeed. Usually the idea is to upgrade more than 30 veteran knights to cavalry and then go steamrolling.

Those are some weak defence values. Weak defence values make it easy to defend against them. Those two units, if intended to be strong, should not be weaker than ancient cavalry with 3/2/2/+1 and war elefants with 4/3/2/+1. As my post above implies those extra HP matter. Also of course the mere...

Well, it seems to me that your best bet is not to wait for hospitals und just go for domination directly. Even waiting for railroads is not needed. Waiting may have the main effect that the territory you conquer will be less underdeveloped. Greece in particular is hampered by jungle and swamps...

This is looking good. Thanks to a dense settling pattern a low ratio of workers to towns still yields a good result. In the late medieval age and the early industrial age you should be a powerhouse. At the chance of overestimating you: After winning this game you should try Demigod. You do seem...

Well, it always depends on the price you need to pay, but the pyramids are rather helpful for growth. You need to optimize what happens before turn 140 - 250 AD.

If we subtract the cities with low production for producing artillery or naval units, then it might turn out that exactly 15 cities need barracks. Cities inside a continent should usually get barrracks, but the ones at the coast need additional shields for harbors while having less shields as...

The first priority is to use as many tiles as possible as early as possible. Having many tiles used per city is a lower priority. Using a given amount of total tiles by fewer metropolises can help to lower building maintenance and corruption. That really only matters after hospitals are...