China help

[Bigv32]

I have been playing around lately with china on earth 18 civs. I have two questions.

1. If you can answer this you do not need to answer the second. Can anyone point me to a site or thread that offers different strategies for this map and different civs? I am talking about something like the strategy articles for rhyes and fall of civ.

2. If not, can anyone give me some good strategies for china? I am looking primarily ideas on where to put my cities. I have tried a few combos, but I never seem to like how they are placed because of the overlap. I know you have to overlap, but I can not seem to find any combo that works.

Thanks

 

[Koning]

2. If not, can anyone give me some good strategies for china? I am looking primarily ideas on where to put my cities. I have tried a few combos, but I never seem to like how they are placed because of the overlap. I know you have to overlap, but I can not seem to find any combo that works.

Thanks

Expand first towards Korea to block of the Mongols. Only two cities are needed. Then, the rest of the game is a walk in the park. Your southern fertile and resource abundant land is almost entirely blocked off by the mountain in the west. By the time Asoka expands through the jungle in South-East Asia, you probably have already established prosperous cities in that area. And don't forget to conquer the Mongols before they attack you. They will.

Concerning city placement: if you're unsure, just print screen (with the recources marked) and draw a good dotmap using a simple application like paint. This will help you to achieve optimal city placement. If you want examples of dotmaps, the're many on the forum.

 

[Amao]

King of the World Series on sample games, though China is yet to be played

 

[twitching]

I dont know of any strategy forums for earth 18 but i have found a good strategy that works decently is to settle ur capital 1s of the pigs for all those nice hills then build TGLH in your 2nd city on the coast (you could put capital on the coast if you prefer) and rexing korea and sorrounding lands like mad, than beeline machinary for your UU which has awsome synchrincy because since ur protective you get CG and Drill in all archery units which means with a barracks you can get a unit with 6 strength, 3-4 first strike chances, collateral damge plus 50% vs melee units! attacking anything before longbows your first unit without cats will have bout 40% chance of winning more after you cause collateral. with those uber units u can conquer india and if your playing on slower speeds maybe even some other civs to his west. It helps if u can get pyramids aswell and set up a se/te to fund ur expansion but on some higher levels it probly isnt worth it

 

[jamesddd]

take your initial warrior and walk into an undefended Karakorum