DrNomienom
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Hi guys, I'm still a little bit new to the game. What's your general strategy for playing Venice? Do you puppet every city state each time you have a great merchant?
Strategy for playing Venice?
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Usually I use the Merchant of Venice to buy a City-State. Especially if the CS is surrounded by peaceful civs and I know I can use it as a base for trade routes.
But I enjoy being a warmonger Venice, and if my civilization is expanding quickly through warfare then I can use the Merchant of Venice to build a colonia. It's a very powerful tile, worth the investment, and it can expand your borders too.
My strategy for venice is somewhat counter intuitive compared to the main course of action.
1) only puppet city states that are close to your city a maximum of 10 turns should be the farthest. the landlocked city sates should be able to have their border connect to you. so on an so forth.
2) I actually can go as a bit of a warmonger against neighboring civs just taking surronding cities and puppeting them. the UA applies to all puppet cities hence you can get a lot of great merchants. Use these great merchants to make colonia this can create a incredible amount of food, and gold for venice.
3) get tradition , then statecraft, then finally industry.
This was my strategy up to immortal. ( i actually got a 100 pop venice once but i forgot to screen shot it
1) only puppet city states that are close to your city a maximum of 10 turns should be the farthest. the landlocked city sates should be able to have their border connect to you. so on an so forth.
2) I actually can go as a bit of a warmonger against neighboring civs just taking surronding cities and puppeting them. the UA applies to all puppet cities hence you can get a lot of great merchants. Use these great merchants to make colonia this can create a incredible amount of food, and gold for venice.
3) get tradition , then statecraft, then finally industry.
This was my strategy up to immortal. ( i actually got a 100 pop venice once but i forgot to screen shot it
tu_79
Deity
In case you haven't realize it yet, going Authority gives you a free Merchant of Venice quite early, and since most of your cities are going to be conquered puppets, you are likely going to fight a lot.
