Early granaries and barracks?

[smallstepforman]

ON higher levels you have serious happiness problems, so increasing your population results in more unhappiness, forcing you to use entertainers, which means less people working, which means no benefit in production. Most cities are capped at 6 anyway for a long time, so granaries are useless. Once I can build aqueducts I usually have universities/cathederals to build straight afterward, and before I know it the city is capped at 12 again, so Granaries are again useless.

Therefore, I only really build granaries in 3 cases:
- capital, to act as settler factory.
- cities with slow food growth (hills, desert)
- cities size capped at 12 and city has nothing left to build.

Let the AI build the Pyramids, I'll just take it away from him sooner or later (hopefully sooner).

 

[God]

Originally posted by smallstepforman


Let the AI build the Pyramids, I'll just take it away from him sooner or later (hopefully sooner).

Same for me. I build granaries in my core cities, for rapid expansion. The others won't need any, because first they usually build a spearmen, then a temple and then a settle, because by then they are already size4-5.

As I move up each level I change my strategy. Right now on monarch I don't really bother to go for any ancient wonder. Sometimes I like to get Hanging Gardens and now and then if I have an early leader I'll rush the Great Libary.

Pyramids aren't that useful.

If I plan to fight alot of early war then I'll build barracks in all my major cities.

 

[Gundam]

u aren't that smart u know...first of all what is the point of having irigated a 2 food tile in despotism when one could have 2 food and shield per mined tile( like I said mine all of it//u will irigate those tile later one when your town is 6 +).So u'd better make some inteligent remarks about the beginning of the game rather than making stupid observation..like for example that dude god "Pyramids aren't that useful" >>>SOME REALLY STUPID OBSERVATION...if u haven't realized yet god The Piramids are perhaps one of the most powerfull thins in the game.. and one shouls try to have them at any cost.
ps If u have like 4 city pumping warriors(regular ones) and setllers u can afford having your capitol city building the piramids-after u did make a temple and funded the city entertainment- even on a pangea-continental huge map.

 

[Gundam]

hell no baracks 8 regular warriors kick 2 veterran warriors -THat is why the ai outnumber u 4-1 at least