TaPele
Chieftain
- Joined
- Mar 26, 2022
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- 43
I'm learning how to play the early game and I did it quite well in my current game (playing as Mao). I even managed to plan to assign scientists and bulbed philosophy (I felt I was Einstein for that move XD). Up to that point I was at the top of the chart, but for some reason I always tend to go to war... when maybe it's not the right time...
I guess I had expanded quite far and was losing a great amount of gold per turn at 100%, so that might have been something wrong I did. When is it the right time to expand. In regards to war, for instance, I saw that Englad (which had the juicy Holy City of buddhism, the official religion of all my continent) was pretty weak. So I decided to attack the English empire and succedded, took a few cities including London and vassaled Elizabeth. Though the buddist and confucionist Holy Cities came in handy, my treasure had been heavily hit and as turns went by, Babylon and Greece got over me in terms of techs. From that point onwards, I only focused on building as many military units I could and felt extremely hurried to attack other empires. I tried attacking SB but in the blink of an eye he got rilfes and I was beaten, signing peace through the AP.
Now I'm attacking The Netherlands and though it's going okay, Wilhem has airships and I'm not confident enough if I'm going to vassal him. Also Kublai Khan attacked me trough the southeast, but he's extremely weak (he had a Protection Agreement with Babylon)
The point is: how can I avoid wars? I tend too easiliy to think about attacking when maybe it's not necessary. When should I go to war? How do I know when (and how) to expand? If it's not through war, how do I get over other empires technologically?
I'm attaching my save if you want to take a look at it. Thanks!
I guess I had expanded quite far and was losing a great amount of gold per turn at 100%, so that might have been something wrong I did. When is it the right time to expand. In regards to war, for instance, I saw that Englad (which had the juicy Holy City of buddhism, the official religion of all my continent) was pretty weak. So I decided to attack the English empire and succedded, took a few cities including London and vassaled Elizabeth. Though the buddist and confucionist Holy Cities came in handy, my treasure had been heavily hit and as turns went by, Babylon and Greece got over me in terms of techs. From that point onwards, I only focused on building as many military units I could and felt extremely hurried to attack other empires. I tried attacking SB but in the blink of an eye he got rilfes and I was beaten, signing peace through the AP.
Now I'm attacking The Netherlands and though it's going okay, Wilhem has airships and I'm not confident enough if I'm going to vassal him. Also Kublai Khan attacked me trough the southeast, but he's extremely weak (he had a Protection Agreement with Babylon)
The point is: how can I avoid wars? I tend too easiliy to think about attacking when maybe it's not necessary. When should I go to war? How do I know when (and how) to expand? If it's not through war, how do I get over other empires technologically?
I'm attaching my save if you want to take a look at it. Thanks!