In a rough spot- save attatched

[MantaRevan]

I'm playing as brazil in an attempt to try out the new culture victory, but I may have dug myself into a corner on this save. I'm on Emperor, which I've won on twice before, and I still have difficulty with it. I'm planning on attacking England soon, how could I improve my place in this game?

 

[ekat2468]

I'll look at it tomorrow, its 2:25 AM here

 

[ense7en]

I took a quick look.

You are doing very well with tourism, so it looks like that's okay.

The main issues i see is lack of happiness and WAY lower growth in your main cities than you should have.

Capital was what, 7 pop i think?
One other city was 9 pop?

Cities like your cap you basically always want to keep growing if at all possible.

Get Colosseums up in all your cities and get Circus Maximus.
See if you can complete some CS quests like finding natural wonders, or anything that could ally you with them to get some happiness.
Trade your excess luxs for gold (if not a different lux for happiness).

I think you have too many cities for your happiness basically, and why would you get to war right now when you are unhappy?
Get way happier and start growing, or the AI will start to run away with their teching most likely due to your slow tech rate (due to your lack of population).

Scout!
You have open borders with civs (or had), but haven't scouted their lands.
You still need to find the other continent(s) with the other unmet civs.
That'll open up more lux trading options (and more happiness, which you desparately need).
Don't worry about war until you've fixed happiness with a nice buffer, as your lack of population will become a bigger issue soon.

 

[ekat2468]

prepare for a long post:

First conecern is population, here is how I micromanaged your cities tiles to maximize population growth:

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Concern #2: Happiness:
You shouldn't have taken any of those cities from Polynesia, you should've simply focused on growing your initial cities, taking those cities from Polynesia costed you a lot of happiness that you could've used towards new Carnivals. and don't think about any future offensive wars, at least until you get Prachina's and you can go attack someone kill their military off, then take as many luxuries as you can get in a peace treaty, therefore getting you even more happiness towards your next golden ages.

Focus on building/buying Temples to get happiness from the celts religion. Focus on buying/building Colosseums and then building Circus Maximus to allow for population growth.

Concern #3: Military

You don't have enough military to DEFEND yourself, let alone go and attack anyone. After you increase your happiness again, focus on getting a decently sized miltary so you can defend yourself.

I see you have a research agreement coming in 20 turns. Use this to push you through Printing Press so you can get Zoo's. Spend the 20 turns researching Compass + Prerequisites to Printing Press, and start researching Printing Press right before the Research Agreement comes so that it can push you through Printing Press.

I would then research Astronomy so that you can build/buy a caravel in Salvador.

For Social Policies, I would take Landed Elite as your next policy so that you can grow, and then jump into Aesthetics, it will be critical to helping you with your planned culture victory.

Then I would go into Order for your Ideology and take these Tenets:

Level 1:

Hero of the People
Socialist Realism
Young Pioneers
Universal Healthcare

Level 2:

Academy of Sciences
Cultural Revolution
Worker's Faculties

Level 3:

Dictatorship of the Proletariot

If you have extra policies after that, go into rationalism to help out your science, so that you can keep up with the ai's.

 

[MantaRevan]

Should I finish tradition or go down rationalism?