You just now realized you had no iron? You must not have needed it very much.
You just now realized you had no iron? You must not have needed it very much.
Actually, I think BNW's strategic resources are not scarce enough. Although I would prefer to see them scarce in a more balanced manner.
I'm the biggest civilization in the world and I have ZERO access to oil?
There is only ONE city-state with access to oil on this map?
No oil = no battleships. It really kills your late game when a resource this critical to unit-building is nowhere to be found.
My wife was very disappointed in me for invading India because they had the poor taste to be living on top of my oil.
Actually, one of the peculiarities of Civ 5 is that there is always an alternative, frequently powerful, unit that does NOT require resources:
Pikemen
Submarines
Artillery
just for examples off my head.
Also, note that most of the 'city takers' don't require resources: trebuchets cannon, artillery...
Finally, note that several of the Strategic Resources tend to spawn in certain terrain:
Oil in tundra, snow, desert
Uranium in jungle, tundra, snow
If you have a need coming up, get a settler ready to head for the ice!
You can build a perfectly useful military without any resources early in the game: spearman, pikemen, archers, crossbowmen, catapults, trebuchets, etc.
Then slide past Frigates to submarines, but note that in that 'Frigate period' musketmen, gatling guns, riflemen, machine-guns, Great War Infantry, cannon and artillery, etc require no resources - concentrate on your 'ground game' until you get submarines, then start looking for aluminum if there is no oil...
If you are missing ALL of the strategic resources, you have, frankly, a very peculiar map, but you can still build some kind of unit in every Era of the game...
Lack of Strategic Resources is not a game-breaker, just a game-changer
You can see how much oil is on the CS's patch by hovering over the square. And you can pay to improve it and get it immediately as well.