Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[justanick]

Barricades can offen some protection. Moving onto an enemy barricade reduces movement points to zero.

 

[r16]

but they are an eyesore in my rustic countryside !

 

[justanick]

Then you need to pay the price for beauty. Either with money or with blood. The choice is yours.

 

[r16]

survive until Modern Armour or do not pick Spain as an AI ?

 

[Lanzelot]

Or face the challenge and try to find counter-measures. That can be fun as well! Who said, that the game needs to be "easy/risk-free/automatic win" in order to be fun...

 

[r16]

indeed . Though ı started 3 different LotM scenarios today and lost the early wonders ı needed in the first two , that's the reason for the third . That one has me on a small continent with no rivers and one single tile lake so that only my capital will grow larger than 6 in the first 300 or so turns of the game . Have 4 cities , missing one single grassland tile as maybe 60% of the landmass is tundra and forest on a tundra . Had a settler and a tech from huts , of the 13 or so AIs maybe 7 are ahead of me in tech for now , spent a settler in to build the same city as abandoning it let me move my palace to my biggest city . Have 3 settlers in stock to settle in finest places possible with a palace move again, as my settlers were autoproduced and that small wonder is now out . My next door neighbour is Harad with the 6-5-2 elephant which does not ever fall with its two extra health bars ... short of me having 10 or 20 catapults for each of them . And Harad alone has privateers in game , meaning my sea travel will be always at risk for at least 150 turns , out the 600 the scenario has . That's about 4 or maybe 6 months of game play for me . Everybody has a taste of own .