Militaristic City-States will be my savior

[Verax]

As a professed build-aholic, the thing that usually gets me in my mid game, is lack of military. Now though, I just keep a military city-state ally, and he keeps pumping out top tier units and gifting them to me! I'm in love with Tyre! Still learning, but city-states is a very welcome addition thus far.

 

[nes18]

I have the same problem. I like to build buildings and expand my culture. Next thing I know there are barbarians in my capital

 

[Coker]

As a professed build-aholic, the thing that usually gets me in my mid game, is lack of military. Now though, I just keep a military city-state ally, and he keeps pumping out top tier units! I'm in love with Tyre! Still learning, but city-states is a very welcome addition thus far.

Belgrade was a huge help for me in my first go-thru.

 

[Elite]

I maintain a rather large standing army for both offensive and defensive purposes, as Alexander found out the hard way about an hour ago.

 

[Thormodr]

City States are fun. As Siam I have gotten 5 great people out of them so far.

 

[Brota]

I had to tell them to stop giving me units. I got no space left on the map to put them.

 

[spicytimothy]

it's so expensive to get good standing from them! and it degrades so fast

 

[Verax]

As the greeks, it seems fairly simple

 

[Verax]

I had to tell them to stop giving me units. I got no space left on the map to put them.

Or you can do what I do, just wheel them on over to another city-state and gift them.