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I try to get one big city with IZ + Commerce + Harbor + encampment for the +5 production from internal trade routes. But yeah, commerce and harbors #1 prio.

In case the micromanagement of this seems too much, you can also use the Horse Economy to do this, though you miss out on the 30% production bonus. But it's much easier to build/sell Horsemen everywhere and stockpile enough gold to buy a worker in every city the turn you get Feudalism locked in.

First: The bath is one of the best unique buildings in the game; +4 housing +1 amenity that early is incredible and I build it everywhere asap. Second: Aqueducts seem only to be for non-freshwater cities. I try to place cities either on fresh water or 1 tile away (1 tile away from mountain is...

I've not at all noticed that I fall behind in science.. in fact, I am routinely ahead of all immortal AI's in science without a single campus. Campus simply aren't very strong early.. getting all that extra food + housing + amenities + production -> more cities -> more pop -> more science, gold...

Ignore campus until factories are in place, you don't really want any tech until your infrastructure is up and running. Maybe add a campus if there is an insane adjacency bonus if you want to tech industrialization faster. My current build is: 1. Tech for horsemen/swordsmen depending on...

Just wanted to add since no one else has mentioned it that the techs for industrial zone AND factories both give +1 hammers to mines... that's also a huge passive benefit...

I am so glad they fixed this wonder and made it useful in the patch. Not. :|

The only time I would ever consider using a GE on a manufactory is if I am playing deity and I have no chance of catching up in tech enough to get a decent wonder in the next hundred turns... it happens occasionally, but I can count on one hand how many I have made in the past hundred or so games :P

Wanted to share; I just had a huge "wow" moment. Playing as the Mayans, I rushed the Chichen Itza wonder with a Great Engineer(it's actually fairly decent now.. +4 global happiness helped a lot). After I built it, I realized.. wait a minute.. I actually rushed the Chichen Itza in.. Chichen...

I play on Emperor, and I usually amass a thousand+ gold before currency... I'm never sure what to spend them on (usually libraries / settlers / sometimes work boats).. but I do like to have a nice war chest in case I am attacked, nothing like rush buying walls and some archers in a town just as...

Oups, I forgot Autocracy.. knew I was missing something :) Camikaze is absolutely correct. Lower five.

You need to open up one of the four lower (commerce, freedom, rationalism, order) social policy trees.. then they will appear in the "purchase" menu for cities.

I did a mass faith Byzantium game and went Order.. I ended up with so many Great Engineers, I could Rush every single wonder from industrial until the end of the game..

For those who question the strength of the Ironclad and their ability to take cities, I thought I would bring up Commodore Perry and the Black Ships of Edo: In 1852, Perry sailed 4 ironclad ships into the port of Edo (modern day Tokyo) and demanded that the Shogunate open up trade to the west...

Even longer if you look at older wars - it's not that uncommon for medieval sieges to drag on for up to 10 years.. ex. Siege of Tripoli, 1102 - 1109 Siege of Philadelphia, 1378 - 1390