How's my game?

[Diamondeye]

In post 4, you are working 8 unimproved tiles. Consider building more workers.

 

[MStumm]

Ok I finished the game! Thanks to everyone who took a look at it. I make sure to build more workers and improvements this time.

In the end I won by Conquest in 1635. The idea was to ship knights across the sea but they got upgraded to Cavalry on the way. I vassalized everyone on the other continent very quickly. Vassals is a nice feature when going for conquest it seems, I would have to raze every city in vanilla, to get the same result, now I needed to raze only a couple from each, and I actually saw Gandhi fighting .

For my next game I'll be upgrading to Noble, and I've never won a cultural victory, so thats what I am going to go after.

Here is the final save, if anyone wants to take a look. I kinda stopped managing the empire after my first galleons sailed, but anyway.

 

[DMOC]

Nice job on your win, and I hope you learned a lesson on workers. I didn't see this thread before so I couldn't add on my comments.

I will be looking forward to your next game.

 

[Diamondeye]

When going Cultural, France is often a nice choice. Louis XIV for the full cultural monty (IND/CRE), one of the others for a more war-friendly approach.

 

[Skallagrimson]

Thank a lot everyone!

I picked warlord difficulty, because its been a while since I played last time, and because I am new to the expansion. I'll be moving up the difficulty in my next game. I'll also make sure to build more cottages too. Now that i've captured Justian and Catherin's land, my finances are hurting, but I did cottage every green tile insight, so things should be getting better. I am getting 500+ beakers per turn and its about year 13 hundred something.

So my current plan is to sail across the ocean (since I have astronomy now, and way ahead of all the other rivals) to the other guys, and vassallize them.

In my previous post I should have said "improved" rather than "cottaged". An improvement has to make strategic sense for the city in question and the empire as a whole. Some purists only like to build cottages when running a Financial civ, but for me in the early game I use them as food count adjustment mechanisms, as sometimes when you want to cap growth from whipping or flip specialists, you need a variation on food count for the various tiles in the BFC. So even when I run SE (which I tend to do early-game) there are still some cottages in odd places, or later after US/FS makes cottages more optimal, there might still be the odd farm (or state propery watermill) to tick the food count up by just that one needed for growth control. I think my style overall is "Hybrid With Emphasis" (SE progressing towards CE).

I just didn't want you to think it was recommended to always "cottage every green tile".

 

[MStumm]

Actually I do have a problem with not improving my cities properly. I do tend to build cottages everywhere, and sprinkle all other improvements more or less at random.