I feel the need to give you my assessment, even though some may not like it. I think it important however not to look at the individual topics as isolated issues, but also to have a "global vision":
- The fundamental flaw is that we did not built granaries in Deux Riviers and Vandelay. This slows our growth trendeously. We should discuss on where to found our next 5 cities, not our next city.
- The second fundamental flaw is the lack of workers. Most of the tiles our citizens work on are not or not fully improved. Thus we have slow research, little production.
- The 3rd flaw is overbuilding defensive spearmen. We are in need for warriors (cheap and upgradeable) and chariots (cheap, fast, and upgradeable)
- We really have to worry about the yellow civ starting to settle the very good (floodplains, wheat, wines!) land to the NW.
- We also have to worry about barbarians. Because we did not expand fast enough, a number of barb camps will spit out horsemen. Expand!
[/list=1]
We should build granaries, workers, and settlers. More cities = more citizens = more commerce = faster research + more power.
Granaries!!! There is no good alternative.
