Gaming Lexus
Chieftain
Hi all
First post here of an experienced (but not good) player so please take it easy!
I know any question asked about strategy is usually situational and there is sometimes no hard and fast rule. That's one of the things that makes Civ great IMO as rarely is a game the same as the next!
Context:
Playing Catherine on King. Fractal. Secured early horses and iron with 4 cities. Happiness coming out of my ears! Neighbouring. Liberty opening -> Honor. Secured religion. Civs: Alexander, Bismarck and Harun. 3 CS in trade range; 2 as allies through quests.
Situation:
Bismarck was expanding quickly in unhelpful strategic locations to my progression to what I had anticipated early to goal towards a dom victory. I thought I could 'nip out' a capital early and could do without aggressive neighbours. I decided to move towards Germany vs Greece as I didn't fancy my chances against an early game Greece. I was moving units towards Bismarck's cities when he settled away from said cities, in the middle of my units (which were out of visibility (+7 tiles) from his main cities). He then noticed my military units (obviously) and gave me the war warning. I didn't want to get diplomatic penalty so I declared war instead of saying they were moving through. I razed the obstructive city and continued my march to their main cities. At this time, I had 2nd strongest military after Harun and was producing units out of one city and pushing out important economical buildings in the other three as I was last in demographics for literacy at the time.
My core questions is:
Would you delay critical buildings (i.e. libraries, National College, workshops and universities in favour of generating lots of military units?
Given this situation, would you delay libraries and workshops in all cities to produce military from all or somewhere in-between?
Thanks in anticipation of your views
First post here of an experienced (but not good) player so please take it easy!
I know any question asked about strategy is usually situational and there is sometimes no hard and fast rule. That's one of the things that makes Civ great IMO as rarely is a game the same as the next!
Context:
Playing Catherine on King. Fractal. Secured early horses and iron with 4 cities. Happiness coming out of my ears! Neighbouring. Liberty opening -> Honor. Secured religion. Civs: Alexander, Bismarck and Harun. 3 CS in trade range; 2 as allies through quests.
Situation:
Bismarck was expanding quickly in unhelpful strategic locations to my progression to what I had anticipated early to goal towards a dom victory. I thought I could 'nip out' a capital early and could do without aggressive neighbours. I decided to move towards Germany vs Greece as I didn't fancy my chances against an early game Greece. I was moving units towards Bismarck's cities when he settled away from said cities, in the middle of my units (which were out of visibility (+7 tiles) from his main cities). He then noticed my military units (obviously) and gave me the war warning. I didn't want to get diplomatic penalty so I declared war instead of saying they were moving through. I razed the obstructive city and continued my march to their main cities. At this time, I had 2nd strongest military after Harun and was producing units out of one city and pushing out important economical buildings in the other three as I was last in demographics for literacy at the time.
My core questions is:
Would you delay critical buildings (i.e. libraries, National College, workshops and universities in favour of generating lots of military units?
Given this situation, would you delay libraries and workshops in all cities to produce military from all or somewhere in-between?
Thanks in anticipation of your views