greynite1
Chieftain
Hey there folks
never posted a thread of my own but i have several questions because unfortunately I keep getting my butt kicked by the CPU in numerous ways. My primary problem is this.
My primary goal is Research and conquering through a combination of having the best culture and most advanced military. My Problem is this. In the early times I am always trying to do expand enough to make space for my fledgling empire. Then to have enough cities on terrain which produces enough shields to create all the wonders and improvements I need. This could be because my early game sucks. What usually ends up happening are the following scenarios
1. I out expand and out research my neighbors but as a result of gettng my culture up my military suffers and since the computer can smell blood they declare war on me as soon as they are able. what happens then is I have to switch my production over to military units to defend myself and push the attackers over the borders and then the rest of the AIs can also smell blood declare war on my already in trouble empire. so I am ahead technologically and land wise but I can't defend it.
2. I go the military route and build my military up massively. Then nobody messes with me but I fall behind massively on upkeep of the units. then i get out cultured and out wondered by my opponents who sometimes get 30-40 turns ahead of me in research. then I'm stuck I can rarely if ever catch up at that point enough to get the wonders I need. One time I had a huge advantage in research over the computer and I was doing good then suddenly other civs I hadn't even contacted yet were beating me to the wonders in the middle ages. I had no significant enemies on my continent but I was so far behind in research it wasn't worth the effort.
So thats what I'm trying to figure out some early game Build orders and Research orders just to get me started. thanks for all your assistance. thanks.
never posted a thread of my own but i have several questions because unfortunately I keep getting my butt kicked by the CPU in numerous ways. My primary problem is this.
My primary goal is Research and conquering through a combination of having the best culture and most advanced military. My Problem is this. In the early times I am always trying to do expand enough to make space for my fledgling empire. Then to have enough cities on terrain which produces enough shields to create all the wonders and improvements I need. This could be because my early game sucks. What usually ends up happening are the following scenarios
1. I out expand and out research my neighbors but as a result of gettng my culture up my military suffers and since the computer can smell blood they declare war on me as soon as they are able. what happens then is I have to switch my production over to military units to defend myself and push the attackers over the borders and then the rest of the AIs can also smell blood declare war on my already in trouble empire. so I am ahead technologically and land wise but I can't defend it.
2. I go the military route and build my military up massively. Then nobody messes with me but I fall behind massively on upkeep of the units. then i get out cultured and out wondered by my opponents who sometimes get 30-40 turns ahead of me in research. then I'm stuck I can rarely if ever catch up at that point enough to get the wonders I need. One time I had a huge advantage in research over the computer and I was doing good then suddenly other civs I hadn't even contacted yet were beating me to the wonders in the middle ages. I had no significant enemies on my continent but I was so far behind in research it wasn't worth the effort.
So thats what I'm trying to figure out some early game Build orders and Research orders just to get me started. thanks for all your assistance. thanks.