Okay, let's look at city management. Please read carefully and try to understand what you should be trying to achieve. Ask if it's confusing. Once you get a hang of these things (let's call it city management beyond basics) everything starts to feel a lot easier and you'll be the runaway civ in nearly every immortal game.
Tolosa - whip granary when available, start warrior (or barracks, but at least this city needs a police), preferably have cottages to work while you grow (though some turns working 2
1
is not a disaster). Later, depending on the
-situation, either whip a settler/worker or stagnate if you have to cool off whip anger working those cottages. In that case it'd be nice to give corn away, since it's a waste to turn a 6
-tile to a 6
-tile (after granary!). I always put down a sign with Alt+S saying when the borders pop, so that I could manage to have 1-2 workers ready on the sheep immediately when available.
Bibracte - "I'm going to put chops into settler then whip the granary in capital." In general, when competing builds are granary vs settler/worker, what you want to achieve is getting t
he settler out as fast as you can, preferably via whip, then have the granary done next turn in order to grow really fast. Every turn you stagnate the granary does nothing, this is why the settler/worker is more important. There are a few ways to do this, but I think since you probably already have whip anger and want soon to be max size, I'd try to not stack a lot of anger. I'd
keep building the granary, let chops go into it, grow to size 6 with your nice tiles, then 3-pop settler. The timing should be nice with chops that you are then finishing the granary size 3.
Vienne - with this city I'd address one issue you have right now: not enough workers. I'd grow to 4, whip worker, start granary. You have one forest and 4th city will claim you another one, so then immediately chop that 40
towards granary. Should be enough to complete it with overflow from worker whip.
There might be a better 4th city than clam, the southern spot 2S1E of pig. It's better because it's connected and can work 3 shared green cottages, i.e. has much higher immediate
. Then 5th to clam, 6th to western pig (or eastern pig). Cities on a river with
-resources (even shared) and green tiles are very strong and you should try to settle as fast as you can.
Once you have a vision what every city is doing, what it will look like in say 3-5 turns, it's easier to see what your workers should do. I am very careful with every worker move, for me it's the most "fun" thing in the game and I think in general it is one major thing that differentiates players beating deity and ones who struggle on immortal. If you want to see what excellent worker management looks like in practice, watch Lain.
edit: one more thing about city management, one that I see even strong players get wrong. Don't be afraid to grow into unhappiness. Avoid when possible yes, but often growing into
is better than stagnating. The reason is simple - even unhappy citizens are worth 30
via whip and as a bonus they don't eat
when building settler/worker. For me, the only argument against growing into
is maintenance cost. Capital is special in this respect, as extra citizens cost less.
. I'd put them on Hannibal, since likely you'll kill Hatty first.
So I reloaded a few turns and turn 67 I sent two workers to pasture pigs:
for those warriors every turn. There must be some other way.
