Terrian improvment

[Sman]

In the modern age i takes about 6-8 turns making a mech infantry, my best city takes about 4 turns and my worst about 15 turns and nearly all of the rest take about 7 -8 turns.. how can I change this because I have heard people that they can build a massive army in about 4 turns. I'm guessing that I'm probably doing the wrong terrain improvement on the wrong terrrain type so can some one please tell me what I should do with all the diffrent type of terrians?

 

[getak]

well it all depends on what terrain you have. to produce things you need to have alot of sheilds. to get sheilds you just build mines in every and all hills within the city radius. a hill is 2 sheild plus a mine it is 3 and if you add a railroad on top of that it maxes out at 4 sheilds in that one square. i recommend building a h\mountain town close, but not on the action sort to speak.

also for population just irrigate everything not worth the sheilds. food depends on terrain, but the maximum possible if flood plain 3 food, irrigation +1 and a railroad +1 and yo get five total.

also everysquare that gets a railroad also gets +1 commerence too, so you get rich populatd and industrialized.