need help with dom.

[harmanoff]

I am in serious need of some dominatikn help....i suck at it big time! Always in the hole and juat cant seem to get outbof my shell no matter what...any good steps to do in the first 40-50 turns that would help me? Thanks so much

 

[VainoValkea]

BNW makes early game attempts at domination very risky. You lose money, happiness and tech speed. My advice: don't bother.

 

[Adjuvant]

Haha! It's different! Certainly not as easy as G&K was. You need to nurture culture in your 2-4 "big city base". At least that's how I play. You really reap your necessary happiness policies to do it. Once you get an ideology, any one really, it's easy.

 

[kukatr]

Go to a permament war with a remote city state. You can train your soilders at their walls. Pick up cover and healing for the melee troops and logistics for the archers. Then you don't have to have such a big attacking force, you'll save money. Later make trade routes with city states and liberated non-capitals. Also save great artists for wartime, the golden age can solve your money problems.
Also Honor policies and Statue of Zeus is quite obvius I think.

 

[mbuna120]

I'm having the same issue. No matter how I try I cannot seem to support an army of even 6 units in the early game. If I attempt to gear up for war prior to turn 100 in any way I just go negative gold and can't upgrade the units I have or do anything meaningful with them. In addition...are barracks and armories simply too cost prohibitive now? I can barely afford the monument/library combo in each city whole trying to be aggressive. I feel like peaceful until just before industrial is about all I can manage any more on emperor level :-(