Fellow Fanatics,
Thanks to the help I've received on here, I absolutely blitzed my last game on Prince! The issue was with my bias towards turtling and investing in irrelevant/inefficient buildings. Now it's time to step things up to Monarch and I'd really appreciate your input to help me refine my play.
For this go-around, I'd like to:
- Focus on great scientist generation, and bulb key technologies ASAP
- Find out when to go for certain wonders, and how to leverage them
- Get a better grasp on ideal city placement and when to expand
- Learn more about when/when not to whip
- Aim for a Cuirassier timing attack
This playthrough is on default settings, with no random events/huts on a pangea map.
All that being said, this is my first shadow game so please let me know if there's a certain etiquette involved.
Let's go!
Last shadow game I re-rolled because of an overpowered start with two gold and two corn, this time? Looks like the universe wants me to have gold and corn! So be it... at least it's only one of each. I moved my warrior NW and found some sheep. I'm leaning towards settling in place. Thoughts?
Moderator Action: Merged Original Posts....text below is from merged thread. -lymond
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Thanks to the help I've received on here, I absolutely blitzed my last game on Prince! The issue was with my bias towards turtling and investing in irrelevant/inefficient buildings. Now it's time to step things up to Monarch and I'd really appreciate your input to help me refine my play.
For this go-around, I'd like to:
- Focus on great scientist generation, and bulb key technologies ASAP
- Find out when to go for certain wonders, and how to leverage them
- Get a better grasp on ideal city placement and when to expand
- Learn more about when/when not to whip
- Aim for a Cuirassier timing attack
This playthrough is on default settings, with no random events/huts on a pangea map.
All that being said, this is my first shadow game so please let me know if there's a certain etiquette involved.
Let's go!
Spoiler :
Last shadow game I re-rolled because of an overpowered start with two gold and two corn, this time? Looks like the universe wants me to have gold and corn! So be it... at least it's only one of each. I moved my warrior NW and found some sheep. I'm leaning towards settling in place. Thoughts?
Moderator Action: Merged Original Posts....text below is from merged thread. -lymond
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Spoiler Original Post for Merged thread...lymond :
Fellow Fanatics,
Thanks to the help I've received on here, I absolutely blitzed my last game on Prince! The issue was with my bias towards turtling and investing in irrelevant/inefficient buildings. Now it's time to step things up to Monarch and I'd really appreciate your input to help me refine my play.
For this go-around, I'd like to:
- Focus on great scientist generation, and bulb key technologies ASAP
- Find out when to go for certain wonders, and how to leverage them
- Get a better grasp on ideal city placement and when to expand
- Learn more about when/when not to whip
- Aim for a Cuirassier timing attack
This playthrough is on default settings, with no random events/huts/espionage on a pangea map with diplomatic victory turned off.
All that being said, this is my first shadow game so please let me know if there's a certain etiquette involved.
Let's go!
I settled in place because I heard plains hill is pretty strong.
Should I move?
Would worker -> warrior be a good build queue?
For technology, I'm thinking Mining into The Wheel.
Thoughts?
Thanks to the help I've received on here, I absolutely blitzed my last game on Prince! The issue was with my bias towards turtling and investing in irrelevant/inefficient buildings. Now it's time to step things up to Monarch and I'd really appreciate your input to help me refine my play.
For this go-around, I'd like to:
- Focus on great scientist generation, and bulb key technologies ASAP
- Find out when to go for certain wonders, and how to leverage them
- Get a better grasp on ideal city placement and when to expand
- Learn more about when/when not to whip
- Aim for a Cuirassier timing attack
This playthrough is on default settings, with no random events/huts/espionage on a pangea map with diplomatic victory turned off.
All that being said, this is my first shadow game so please let me know if there's a certain etiquette involved.
Let's go!
Spoiler :
I settled in place because I heard plains hill is pretty strong.
Should I move?
Would worker -> warrior be a good build queue?
For technology, I'm thinking Mining into The Wheel.
Thoughts?
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