MMMMMm nice juicy lands to spread the doctrine of Mao. And do my eyes deceive me? or did Mad build a cottage. he DID, praise marx. J/K you're playing a great game. LOL, but as usual I have to toss my 2cents in. LOL, most games my 2 cents actually makes up half your commerce.
You can get the same production in Beijing if you work the grassland cows instead of the grassland forest. But you don't starve the population down. Just click avoid growth so that you can be right there ready to pop to size six when you get more happiness.
Which brings us to the workers in the rice near Guangzhou and mining near Nanjing. Move atleast one of them to the junglewgrasslandgems near nanjing. By the time workerA has finished the farm, guangzhou will be at the happy cap and not need the rice. And the gems will be a welcome boost your economy. But most importantly the happy cap goes up by one.
I absolutely LOVE the city site in the middle of the bananas/jumbos/dye. It screams commerce city in big fat chinese letters. Though i would farm anything touching that mountain peak. Late game volcanos eat up towns down to the bare grass.
I would move archer guy 1w for the iron city. It gives you both clams and the iron. With the 2 clams and the iron. You also gain the ability to build a lighthouse and harbor. Which are good because you have no fresh water. the two clams provide +6
which is exactly what you will need to work the 5 hills and the iron. That is a whole buncha production for a size 8 city. PLUS you can work 9 water total with the Maoa statues. By settling where the archer is now, you make the watertiles dead weight.
I would settle one more city 4 tiles south of the bananas, 1w of the cows. Great production city. And you will want one down there to deal with willy/surry. Marching troops all the way from shanghai will be annoying and dangerous if you need them fast. Also it has more potential than Shanghai. It is on a river for a levee and has a lot of riverside tiles to benefit from it. It has more food potential than shanghai. Pre biology you can only work 4-5 hammer tiles in Shanghai. The southern city can work pretty much everything because of higher food and the ability to run watermills all over.
I would chop whip all three settlers as soon as possible. settling elephant/banana first and then southern city. Backfill the coastal city.
Teching monarchy would be a good thing. At somepoint get those Once you start towards literature, grab drama along the way. Get those pavillions up and running. Without religious buildings you are going to get a cultural smackdown put on your cities. Does the sistine chapel count as a religious building? It doesn't generate priest points or require a religion for the specialists culture boost.
You have room to rex. Build the economy back up and Mao will be a powerhouse. He will also have a military production city on all three borders. Shanghai for troops against just, coastal maoao city for dealing ith surry ans southern city for dealing with will. Cottage the heck out of Beijing and the other cities. Honestly If you can get the coastal city and the dye/jumbo/banana city you really don't need to worry about war until maces and Chokonu. The southern city would be a huge bonus.
Originally Posted by BalbanesBeoulve
I prefer to axe rush suryaman asap. He's annoying as hell, better to get him out of the way early.
A. Axe rushes are what doomed alex 1&2 as well as mao1.
b. It is extremely difficult to axe rush WITHOUT COPPER. And a little late when you get iron.
You can get the same production in Beijing if you work the grassland cows instead of the grassland forest. But you don't starve the population down. Just click avoid growth so that you can be right there ready to pop to size six when you get more happiness.
Which brings us to the workers in the rice near Guangzhou and mining near Nanjing. Move atleast one of them to the junglewgrasslandgems near nanjing. By the time workerA has finished the farm, guangzhou will be at the happy cap and not need the rice. And the gems will be a welcome boost your economy. But most importantly the happy cap goes up by one.
I absolutely LOVE the city site in the middle of the bananas/jumbos/dye. It screams commerce city in big fat chinese letters. Though i would farm anything touching that mountain peak. Late game volcanos eat up towns down to the bare grass.
I would move archer guy 1w for the iron city. It gives you both clams and the iron. With the 2 clams and the iron. You also gain the ability to build a lighthouse and harbor. Which are good because you have no fresh water. the two clams provide +6
which is exactly what you will need to work the 5 hills and the iron. That is a whole buncha production for a size 8 city. PLUS you can work 9 water total with the Maoa statues. By settling where the archer is now, you make the watertiles dead weight. I would settle one more city 4 tiles south of the bananas, 1w of the cows. Great production city. And you will want one down there to deal with willy/surry. Marching troops all the way from shanghai will be annoying and dangerous if you need them fast. Also it has more potential than Shanghai. It is on a river for a levee and has a lot of riverside tiles to benefit from it. It has more food potential than shanghai. Pre biology you can only work 4-5 hammer tiles in Shanghai. The southern city can work pretty much everything because of higher food and the ability to run watermills all over.
I would chop whip all three settlers as soon as possible. settling elephant/banana first and then southern city. Backfill the coastal city.
Teching monarchy would be a good thing. At somepoint get those Once you start towards literature, grab drama along the way. Get those pavillions up and running. Without religious buildings you are going to get a cultural smackdown put on your cities. Does the sistine chapel count as a religious building? It doesn't generate priest points or require a religion for the specialists culture boost.
You have room to rex. Build the economy back up and Mao will be a powerhouse. He will also have a military production city on all three borders. Shanghai for troops against just, coastal maoao city for dealing ith surry ans southern city for dealing with will. Cottage the heck out of Beijing and the other cities. Honestly If you can get the coastal city and the dye/jumbo/banana city you really don't need to worry about war until maces and Chokonu. The southern city would be a huge bonus.
Originally Posted by BalbanesBeoulve
I prefer to axe rush suryaman asap. He's annoying as hell, better to get him out of the way early.
A. Axe rushes are what doomed alex 1&2 as well as mao1.
b. It is extremely difficult to axe rush WITHOUT COPPER. And a little late when you get iron.
. I'd have very much liked taking AI's as vassals, that would have sped things up considerably, not to mention it's fairly easy to get a vassal to convert civics/religions. Maybe too easy, since this is a role play CHALLENGE
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. Very solid play up until now from you, IMO!
(even if we have to take it right away, and in a game like this I'd actually want to anyway). That would make taking them a strategic choice, depending on victory type pursued etc. I'd imagine that if one goes for conquest, having SP satisfied wouldn't be too difficult (or population for that matter 
