I've been playing Malaysia the last couple of days, but can't get the second UHV.
General strategy
Malaysia seems to be a whipe civ, with cities that don't usually grow past size 3. What I do is prioritize settling my historical territory (Palembang, Pagaruyung and Kota Lhokseumawe on Sumatra, Singapura and Tambralinga on the continent and Santubong and Vijayapaura on Borneo) and building gudangs. I try to get open borders with every civ and trade lots of techs, even selling some for gold. Then I buy an army of 4 war elephants and conquer Java.
Civics
Despotism, citizenship, merchant trade and thalassocracy are no brainers here, but I like to go for manoralism instead of caste system to be able to get those plantations up and running, and clergy at the beggining to help build gudangs and then Syncretism to get the missionaries you need, instead of deidification.
Techs
I'm not quite sure what should I be teching towards. At first I prioritized paper for post offices, but they are too expensive. So I usually beeline compass for the UU, then optics for trading on ocean, even if heavy galleys are enough to deal with Java's navy.
UHV goals
Getting the first commerce from city goal is not difficult with 4 cities with a gudang each. The problem comes with the adquire 14 different happines resources by 1300 AD. In your historical area you already have 6: ivory, gold, spices, dye, incense and gems. With a city south of the Philippines you can also grab whales and pearls. So thats 8 different happines resources. I know there are lots of other resources you can get: silk, jade, amber, citrus, tea, cotton, wines, opium. But by that time every civ you can trade with seems to be colapsing or loosing lots of territory: China, India, the Kushans, the Turks, Persia, Byzantium, China. In every one of my games I was trading with some of those and they just colapsed. Usually China and the Middle East become independent and you are screwed. The best I was able to get was 13.
So, any tips? Is my strategy right or should I change something? How do you guys do it?
General strategy
Malaysia seems to be a whipe civ, with cities that don't usually grow past size 3. What I do is prioritize settling my historical territory (Palembang, Pagaruyung and Kota Lhokseumawe on Sumatra, Singapura and Tambralinga on the continent and Santubong and Vijayapaura on Borneo) and building gudangs. I try to get open borders with every civ and trade lots of techs, even selling some for gold. Then I buy an army of 4 war elephants and conquer Java.
Civics
Despotism, citizenship, merchant trade and thalassocracy are no brainers here, but I like to go for manoralism instead of caste system to be able to get those plantations up and running, and clergy at the beggining to help build gudangs and then Syncretism to get the missionaries you need, instead of deidification.
Techs
I'm not quite sure what should I be teching towards. At first I prioritized paper for post offices, but they are too expensive. So I usually beeline compass for the UU, then optics for trading on ocean, even if heavy galleys are enough to deal with Java's navy.
UHV goals
Getting the first commerce from city goal is not difficult with 4 cities with a gudang each. The problem comes with the adquire 14 different happines resources by 1300 AD. In your historical area you already have 6: ivory, gold, spices, dye, incense and gems. With a city south of the Philippines you can also grab whales and pearls. So thats 8 different happines resources. I know there are lots of other resources you can get: silk, jade, amber, citrus, tea, cotton, wines, opium. But by that time every civ you can trade with seems to be colapsing or loosing lots of territory: China, India, the Kushans, the Turks, Persia, Byzantium, China. In every one of my games I was trading with some of those and they just colapsed. Usually China and the Middle East become independent and you are screwed. The best I was able to get was 13.
So, any tips? Is my strategy right or should I change something? How do you guys do it?
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