[BNW] First Liberty Game and Need Advice (Pictures Included | Immortal Difficulty)

[Civ V > Civ VI]

So, I decided to create an account to thank this forum for all the great tips and strategies that have helped me push the difficulty up little by little. I have been going basic tradition almost every game, and I decided to try out liberty in this game primarily because there were 4 luxuries in my capital and after scouting for a little bit, I found that I had room to expand and even more luxuries in my expands. Everything just seemed to fall into place to try and do liberty.

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So, first I'll give you some background on the game, and then I would love to hear your opinions about what to do next and what I should have done instead.

So, I decided very early on that I was going to attempt liberty and I thought that the Pyramids would be a strong wonder (I have never built it before). So, I rushed masonry and built the Pyramids as soon as I could (before settlers). After that I had the collective rule policy and cranked out 5 settlers in a row. I was planning on doing more, but happiness was becoming an issue and I didn't see any great locations to settle. My first city Te-Moak, so that I could get a quick religion with Uluru which I thought could be a good solution for unhappiness later in the game. It was about this time that I got the ridiculous idea of trying to get Petra in an expand on immortal. Then I remembered that I received a free great person as the liberty finisher, so I decided I would rush Petra in that city. I didn't settle that city until after Agaidka and Goshute because those cities were more contested and I wanted to define my borders. Then I settled Pohokwi and finally Washawkie. In each city I built a monument first because it was taking a ridiculously long time to get to the finisher policy of liberty (that is what delayed Petra so much).Then in each city I just built what I felt I needed at the time (either a caravan, granary, watermill, or archers). At this point you guys can see I have two more turns until libraries are finished and then I can start the national college immediately. So now I have some questions:

Do you think I have delayed the national college too much (It will be done by about turn 90 - 95).
Was the building of Pyramids a mistake?
Was the building of Petra a mistake?
Should I have settled more or less cities?

Any other things about the game up to this point that you can comment about, I would greatly appreciate.

Now about the future of the game. What should my pans consist of?
I don't know what "filler" policies to take (I get a new policy in 10 turns).
Should I attack one of my neighbors and tell me what you guys would do at this point.

Thanks for any help!

 

[marcopolothefraud]

For Immortal, this is a fantastic and highly lucky opening. You're surrounded by friendly AI (Netherlands, Portugal, Austria) and your cities have a lovely population. I don't feel like either wonder was a mistake - you didn't sacrifice settling space to make them, and the NC delay won't be too significant.

However - you seem to have low income (only 10 gpt), and that's not enough to maintain city-state allies (and therefore happiness). Get markets ASAP and sell your luxury/strat resources. For the game's future - maybe turn that start into a warmongering empire with Crossbowmen, Cannons or Artillery (I'd recommend Cannons). Patronage would be incredibly important if you tried to do that. Portugal's an easy target with an isolated and mostly-flat capital, then maybe the Netherlands.

Good luck!

 

[mbbcam]

I'm no expert, but the first thing I'd advise is to read Acken's guide, if you haven't done so already:

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/liberty-wide-game-guide-ackens-version.559009/

I don't think your friendly neighbours will stay friendly for very long if you only have four archers. You also seem to be a bit short of workers. So building units would probably be a good plan. And another caravan.

As for the long-term plan, domination seems a fairly obvious choice. You have the Pyramids, which supports pillage-repair, so flooding the map with units and earning by pillaging could be done.

 

[raider980]

Looks really good for Immortal. Especially getting Petra, that's never bad. What's bad is trying for and the AI gets it right before you, which seems to happen a lot so I usually don't even try for it. Get that Petra city up and running asap. Might be worth sending a food caravan to it, gotta expand to those hills. Although there's lots of food there anyway so maybe not.