Current game I decided to gave Shaka a first try , pangea , epic speed and monarch level .
Axe rushed the Ethiopion guy fast for some easy city's and got around 6 city's around 1000 BC.
Had marble and 2 of the early happy's and since I was planning to go for domination I figured I would try a SE since im going to war a lot anyway .
Here come the problems , even with around 8-9 specialist my economy is a complete mess .
I figured I would just recover a bit , get some specialist up and move on to the next victim , every time I hit happy cap or I didnt have a grassland farm or hill or special resource to work I switched the city's to a specialist.
Since I had the marble I decided to go for the great lib which costed me ages to discover aestics , poly and lit .
Used my first GS for a acedemy and build the great lib but even now my economy is very slow (around 30~ turns for civil service)
Because of all this recovering I couldnt build my army since I was already running only at 20% and most of my production went into scientists .
So what happened , its now 400 AD and I get a double backstack from my "friends"
Im sure I can defend them off since I have plenty of production etc but I was in a very nice position in the early game and messed something up , I just dont really know what .
The maintenance isnt over the roof cause of the zulu UB.
Ive played quite a lot of SE's before but in all of them I got the pyramids early , If I dont have stone or im not indus I usually just dont bother and go hybrid or CE but just because this is a test game I decided to give this a try and I must have missed something up bigtime .
Im normally able to win about 70% of my games on emporer but I very rarely war before cats ( most of the time my first war is with maces and trebs)
So what should I do diffrend ?
Dont go SE?
Stay with 4 city's?
Tech fast to CoL or cats ? ( I went for currency > aestics > poly > lit > col > about 10 turns from CS now , I think im second in tech atm)
Lightbulb techs this early in stead of the acedemy ?
Dont go for the great lib?
Any help would be appreciated , im always trying to up my game a bit and try out new things .
Axe rushed the Ethiopion guy fast for some easy city's and got around 6 city's around 1000 BC.
Had marble and 2 of the early happy's and since I was planning to go for domination I figured I would try a SE since im going to war a lot anyway .
Here come the problems , even with around 8-9 specialist my economy is a complete mess .
I figured I would just recover a bit , get some specialist up and move on to the next victim , every time I hit happy cap or I didnt have a grassland farm or hill or special resource to work I switched the city's to a specialist.
Since I had the marble I decided to go for the great lib which costed me ages to discover aestics , poly and lit .
Used my first GS for a acedemy and build the great lib but even now my economy is very slow (around 30~ turns for civil service)
Because of all this recovering I couldnt build my army since I was already running only at 20% and most of my production went into scientists .
So what happened , its now 400 AD and I get a double backstack from my "friends"
Im sure I can defend them off since I have plenty of production etc but I was in a very nice position in the early game and messed something up , I just dont really know what .
The maintenance isnt over the roof cause of the zulu UB.
Ive played quite a lot of SE's before but in all of them I got the pyramids early , If I dont have stone or im not indus I usually just dont bother and go hybrid or CE but just because this is a test game I decided to give this a try and I must have missed something up bigtime .
Im normally able to win about 70% of my games on emporer but I very rarely war before cats ( most of the time my first war is with maces and trebs)
So what should I do diffrend ?
Dont go SE?
Stay with 4 city's?
Tech fast to CoL or cats ? ( I went for currency > aestics > poly > lit > col > about 10 turns from CS now , I think im second in tech atm)
Lightbulb techs this early in stead of the acedemy ?
Dont go for the great lib?
Any help would be appreciated , im always trying to up my game a bit and try out new things .