Poor Me

[wakkoxc]

I rarely post here, but I need to vent. I started a huge map game on Regent last night, and was thrilled to have one of the best starting positions I've ever had. I had a four turn settler factory in my capitol, a two turn worker factory a few tiles southwest and a two turn spearman/archer factory a few tiles southeast. After founding about 30 cities I started to get hemmed in by my neighbors so I decided to pause for a second and admire the sprawling nation I had created. That's when I noticed I had no iron, only one horse and only one lux. And to make matters worse, the horse and the lux are in outer ring cities on opposite ends of my empire that I didn't even have roads to yet.

 

[IbnSina]

A horse is enough. Get a road to it ASAP and then go conquer some iron and luxuries. Personally, I'd rather have a horse than iron - horsemen are faster, always in fashion, and horses are never depleted. Give me a horse and one luxury, and I'll conquer the world...

 

[rschissler]

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"

 

[sausnebb]

a two turn worker factory a few tiles southwest

Is this necessary? Making multiple workers at a early stage as this would sound very expencive, you would have to pay 1gpt for each. Maybe later in the game it is though, like when you're a republic you need lots of roads.

BTW go for the horses.

 

[Renata]

You can never have too many workers. Almost literally.

Renata

 

[MOTH]

Is this necessary? Making multiple workers at a early stage as this would sound very expencive, you would have to pay 1gpt for each. Maybe later in the game it is though, like when you're a republic you need lots of roads.

BTW go for the horses.

The biggest mistake many players make (myself included) is to not have enough workers. 2 workers for every city in the early-mid game is about right, so a 2-turn worker pump alongside a 4-turn settler pump is perfect. Everytime a worker builds a road resulting in +1 comerce he has paid his salary for the rest of the game.

Also, he notes that he has not yet got roads out to his outer rings, so right there tells you he doesn't have enough workers.

 

[wilbill]

I had a four turn settler factory in my capitol, a two turn worker factory a few tiles southwest and a two turn spearman/archer factory a few tiles southeast.

And you're looking for sympathy?
Go conquer somebody's iron. Capture more lux. I'd take a start like this any day. Have fun!

 

[AA-battery]

Get the horses ASAP. If you can try to get the iron from somebody else, it would be helpful if we could know what victory you want to achieve in this game.

 

[wakkoxc]

Get the horses ASAP. If you can try to get the iron from somebody else, it would be helpful if we could know what victory you want to achieve in this game.

I'm not really looking for advice, I'm actually playing a few levels below what I usaully do, so I know winning will be a cake walk. I'm venting because in three years of playing, I've never controlled this much land and had so few resources.

 

[Cheeze]

Less civs overall = less resources.

 

[gmaharriet]

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"

Alas, poor Richard. He ended up with neither.