One thing that worked out really nice when I "refocused" on TGL: It allowed me to quickly cut off elephants from Darius. He did get one built tho.
I have 26 workers...with almost nothing left to do.
Getting early Nat Park with lots of forest preserves is interesting idea on this map. We get Sci Meth really early here means we can get forest preserves really soon. OTOH until you get at least forge, city will run 11 citizens, which is not bad with Representation anyway.
I wonder why don't you settle city 3S from capital. Can work 2 bananas and some cottages for capital, while cost you nothing in maintenance.
Are you saving forests to chop SS parts?
There's always a lot to do!
A lot of farms for rapid early growth with pre-improvements to workshops for example.
Same thing for windmills over mines, watermills, etc.
You'll want to have some buffer population to whip the larger more beneficial buildings since you're teching pretty fast.
let a very backwards ai live on an island with 1 city, gift him some mainland cities untill he builds a colony (-> vassal), kill said ai on the island and you will have an almost "clean" and very backwards ai on the mainland with only -2 for declaring once and lots of +for liberating cities close to his mainland capital
So you postpone sushi till you get Kremlin and may be Iron Works?
@ Wastin : what is your target date for Sushi? I assume you'll Lib Medicine right?
Is that faster or slower than marathon..or about the same?Sushi is looking like it will come in during the later 600's AD.
Is that faster or slower than marathon..or about the same?
Any idea why there is so much disparity between the dates? More city capture gold? Or is marathon more suited to getting a huge number of cities early?That is extremely slow. On marathon, I target Sushi soon after turn 310 (around 300 BC) and I get Mining Inc around turn 330 (1 AD is turn 350).
Sushi is looking like it will come in during the later 600's AD.
I wish I could go back and double up my army just after Oxford. I've now set a target (for future games) to complete wars and be near domination by turn 130 so that all cities are out of revolt by 140. Unfortunately, in my game, I'm not gonna get the last captured city until 150. This is my first "real" normal speed space race played in this style, so I didn't know when sushi would come in.
Any idea why there is so much disparity between the dates? More city capture gold? Or is marathon more suited to getting a huge number of cities early?
we are using this game for "training purpose", so i would really like to encourage you to go back and retry if you think you can do better at a certain point
-> the ideal goal would be to find an optimal strategy, so reloading (as long as you mention when and why) is really recommended in this special case