I have made too much mistakes in this game but i managed to be the dominated force in this. the prob now is who should i attack or peacefully to a space race game.
if i win this, i will decide to move to immortal game. i hope this is my final emperor game.
still not figuring out how to use cuirs
Hi there, welcome to the forum!
I took a look at your save file and a few things jumped out right away.
Your capital's cottages are very underdeveloped for the stage of game you are in
You placed cities far apart and only settled 7 total cities. You didn't initiate a war until Suryavarman attacked you aroundd 250 BC; so the lack of rapid expansion is perplexing.
Why does Knossos not have a single building?
The lack of Heroic and National Epics is also surprising considering how late it is in the game.
I would start with canceling whatever the workers are doing in the North, pull them all to Sparta, workshop it and build a Heroic Epic there, it is on coast and we will need ships to go bully the other continent.
Build a mix of Infantry and Cannons. I would have just gone straight to Artillery instead of Physics, but you can complete Physics or trade for it and use Airships to support your infantry war across the continent.
I would give Djenne back to Mansa, that city is going to be crushed under a lot of Malinese culture and will revolt all the time unless you garrison a large force there.
I would also direct your vassals' tech - give Sury what is needed to tech artillery in exchange for Physics, task him to tech artillery for you.
Switch your tech to Medicine.
Once Mansa and Sury have Electricity and Arti respectively, trade medicine for them,
Then tech Refrigeration (+1 move speed for ships) while you set them to tech Flight and Industrialism.
Also, Factories and Coal Plants are your friends.
Of course, if you are impatient, you can ignore everything, just turn the military production on in all the cities, accumulate Infantry, Cannon and go visit Toku for a cup of sugar.
Advise for future:
Try to settle helper cities that will work the capital's cottage for it and grow them. Athens has four excellent food resources and at least two should have been given away to two separate helper cities.
National Epic is a good wonder and is even more powerful for Philosophical leaders like Pericles. With good planning you can stay in golden age for eons thanks to all the Great People he can spit out.
Adopt Civics that match your empire and build improvements accordingly - Rep takes advantage of specialists so lots of farms, State Property boosts Watermills and Workshops, so get those and these two synergise very well with Caste System as it boosts workshops and also lets you run Representation Specialists.
For empires like yours with cottages all over, I would have adopted Universal Suffrage and Free Speech to boost your large number of cottages and to rush buy things wiht the money you rake in.
too bad manhattan project is too expensive to build
