Those left two cities are gonna have a hell of a time building anything lmao
My suggestion: enable "No Bad Events", everything else is fine but that one is too annoying (for me). Or disable events completely, up to you ^^
In my opinion, it get a bit worse.
Disable it. The negative events are so annoying, every 3 turns are some of my lumbermills or farms burning..... and the positive events often feels a bit like cheating.
I don't intend to make a photo journal, just a one time example of settler rush strategy. But can move it to the Morocco thread.
True. But there is no other way with this start. Eventually I will place great engineers there. Kasbahs will add some production too. They will be high pop cities with engineer specialists. But yeah the beginning is rough for them. And lastly internal TRs. There was no other place with this start.
You could go Tradition, settle just two cities, snipe a wonder or two, and wait for the AI to settle there before you get a new puppet, or settle yourself once you have Forge technology. With just food, those cities are not contributing in a long time.
It could be bias, since I'm going Spain, having plenty of mounted units, but can't seem to be able to do anything productive with those. Conquistadors are less resilient than I remember or AI is more proficient at killing them.
I can tell that AI is harder when you play aggressively, but easier when you play defensively. You can check my current play through. I can defend against Shaka quite easily.
Please note both left cities have a few forests available to them, and both have one jade too. It is not completely terrible situation, eventually they will pick up the pace.
