berserks01
Obviously Very Confused
So, til about a week ago, I was consistently playing on Chieftan and Warlord and beating the AI by leaps and bounds. Then last week I tried my luck at Regent and again won by leaps-1 and bounds-1. So I figured, why not try Monarch, so I did.
And learned that this is totally different from the 3 levels below it. Right of the bat, I'm already behind in tech/culture/size/and units
Science is pretty expensive too, but I managed to beeline to Philosophy and got Lib as my free tech and built the GL. Then I stop researching (this is probably the problem here) to generate more income.
I switched to Monarchy several turns after I got it to finish up my GL. And several turns after that I've been in wars non-stop. Zulu just attacked me out of the blue, so I held them off and got most of the other civs in against them. Then, after my MA runs out, I attacked Russia cuz they have saltpepper and I THOUGHT I didn't
Well, I'm the type that captures instead of raze and resettle, so I had a couple of flips but luckily I never fortified inside cities until they're completely wiped out or I use obsolete troops to garrison. Built the FB in the center of Russian cities, so it's less corrupt. So now I"m taking out the Zulu and heading toward Aztec afterwards. It's almost safe to say that I got the game in the bag.
However, my questions deals with how do I keep up with tech and gold during the AA cuz that's where I fell behind. Somehow their culture grow like crazy while mine doesn't grow at all til I have a temple or lib in it, so I'm always afraid of flips. I guess Republic would help with generating more gold, but I'm in constant war so I usually choose Monarchy.
Here's my save from somewhere during the AA, and my current save.
Now that I look at it, I could've done with more workers to improve the land faster

And learned that this is totally different from the 3 levels below it. Right of the bat, I'm already behind in tech/culture/size/and units

I switched to Monarchy several turns after I got it to finish up my GL. And several turns after that I've been in wars non-stop. Zulu just attacked me out of the blue, so I held them off and got most of the other civs in against them. Then, after my MA runs out, I attacked Russia cuz they have saltpepper and I THOUGHT I didn't

However, my questions deals with how do I keep up with tech and gold during the AA cuz that's where I fell behind. Somehow their culture grow like crazy while mine doesn't grow at all til I have a temple or lib in it, so I'm always afraid of flips. I guess Republic would help with generating more gold, but I'm in constant war so I usually choose Monarchy.
Here's my save from somewhere during the AA, and my current save.
Now that I look at it, I could've done with more workers to improve the land faster
