Help me with my Siam game

[apocalypse105]

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So I recently start a game as Siam and I am now at a point where I don't what to do maybe on of you guys can help...

This are the settings:

Siam
standard map continents
difficulty : king

Options:
Disable ruins
disable start bias


my game

I started on a continent with egypt right next to me(capital was only a few tiles away) my other neighbours where spain and greece..

SO I picked honor because egypt was close and I was pretty sure that alex would become a problem. I settled a second city close to egypt I sold all my luxuries to get gold SO I could rush buy archers and spearman And I rushed egypt...

After that I tryed to get the pyramids . for some extra workers. (and got it)

I completly wiped egypt of the map so spain wasn't verry happy with me However it doesn't really matter because some turns later she gets wiped out by greece and I olso got a pop up that that a other civilizations lost their capital :
6 civilizations are still in posision of their capital I will proparly go domination.

After a few turns alex wanted my land and expanded near my conquered territory a few turns later he DOWED me I fend the atacks off by using a citadel from my second great general that spawned.. long story short As soon as I got to chivalry My elephants wiped greece off the map I let them keep 1 city the capital of spain..


Because I was constantly at war I didn't had the time to tech proparly So I went straight to philosophy for the national college(I only have 2 cities) After that I picked up education and go straight to astronomy because I didn't met anybody!!!!!

I met : england, polynesia, korea I still didn'explore 1 civ
WIth korea ahead in tech and conquered a lot of land (he conquered rome)

Because I've got the pyramids a great engineer spawend And I went to architecture So I could rush the tash mahal.. After the great engineer 2 great scientists spawn and I used them for a a accedemy

Because I've had a lot of money and did some great quest I picked patronage and was allied with tyre(mercentalie city state ) , militaristic city state, and a maritine city state. (all on my continent)


Current situation

Diplomacy :
I'm currently have a decleration of friendship with korea, england(have RA with both)

And polynesia is guarded but still friendly that he give me 200 for luxuries..



I settled 2 other cities because I 've had the happiness for it and I gave me more beakers(because I've had a feeling I was behind). I still have my military that was used against greece existing out of : elephants , bowman, pikeman..

I have a good navy 6 ship of the lines and 3 privateers


My research agreements with korea is donne and gave me metalurgy and military science.. ..

So I entered the industiral era with only 6 turns away for my second policy nice timing

However I then got a pop up korea has entered the modern era..


What Should I do ? I've atached the save file because there are so many other things I didn't explain .. IF someone could ook at the current situation and tell me what to do.. Because I don't really know how to stop korea before he goes to space

 

[Heerlo]

I don't have any DLC, so I can't load your game.And I don't usually play to win, so I might not be the best for this, but this will revive the thread so maybe someone else can help, if this game is still going.

 

[prince_caspian]

It's not the end even if he enters modern. AIs will usually beeline so that probably means they didn't fully research the techs of the last 2 eras.

Which was what you should have done.

I'm just offering some opinions so don't take this too hard.

1) You should have beelined for public schools then labs the moment you entered renaissance asap. Chemistry, fertiliser is good but not before them. I'm not sure if you took down your continent's AIs with the cannons but if you needed more oomph just bring more trebuchets.

2) There are tons of luxs all around you, many of them not improved - especially whales, and Si Satchanalai's placement is a little awkward as one gold is more than 3 tiles away.

3) On both foresight and hindsight, I strongly believed that Liberty was a much better policy for you than Honor, even if you had to conquer your continent. There's this thing where if you go Commerce and take the GAD you could use it to explore and reach the other AIs before Astronomy. And Rationalism instead of Patronage would help a lot more with the science buildings giving happiness and beakers to your TPs.

4) This may be to you but you will need to settle a few more cities, especially to the left of the capital and downunder. Alex will not hesitate to send settlers and honestly, with his AI behaviour it's better you prevent him from doing so.

5) As for wonders, the GE would be better spent on Pisa and PT in the long run. Of course you didn't plan on running specialists but it's better not to let anyone else take it. Especially Korea.

Well what's done is done, you can still catch up. Now that you're at zero happiness, that's your first order of business, try getting it up by taking rat. and order.