Hi all. First post and I’m in the middle of my first ever game of and civ.
I watched one vid on YouTube to get to know the idea but I basically have used this first time round as a learning curve. I’m almost at 400 turns and have some observations about what I’ve done/done wrong so would appreciate any advice about those as well as some tips for beginners.
so here are my observations:
I feel like I was doing well in the early part of the game, I was placed at the southern tip of Africa and soo added 2 more cities and then another at the top of Africa. I soon wanted to expand further but started getting denounced all over for one reason or another. I was then attacked to which I defended and decided to re attack one of their cities and was close to conquering, although army was depleated, but they offered peace and I accepted. I assume this was a mistake as I should’ve just took the city. Is this fair?
after that, another country declared war and this time I followed through and took a big city so my empire was expanding. I put more cities in north however another country totally blocked my passage between south and north so decided to attack some cities in order to make access between my northern and southern cities. once I took what o needed I again made peace.
I decided to focus on my military in order to take over more so all my cities were building military. This stopped everything else progressing. I then decided to attack again only this time I was totally in a mess as the opposition were way more advanced than my armies. So how do you manage to keep advancing at a fast pace like the AI does? Should I not be filling my queues in cities and doing things one at a time so that I can develop the army as I go?
after having 2 nations attack me I decided to attack someone else, not fully understanding what a city nation was. They wanted to make peace with me using a Suzerain delegation. In the delegation it said I could enter their border etc yet none of my military are able to enter? Am I reading this wrong?
Like I say, I’ve used this game as a learning curve but feel like I’ve barely touched on anything in the game really. I have a hundred turns left and I’m going to see it out to the end just to see what happens but I certainly won’t be winning. I’m playing on the easiest level so I reckon I’d definitely be wiped out by now if I wasn’t.
Another question, why are you denounced so quickly by everyone? How do you maintain good relations as no one likes me and didn’t even before I started attacking people?
despite all this I’ve really enjoyed it. I’m 35 and haven’t had a game hook me like this since I was a teenager.
many help, pointers, answers, basic strategy welcome.
thanks in advance
I watched one vid on YouTube to get to know the idea but I basically have used this first time round as a learning curve. I’m almost at 400 turns and have some observations about what I’ve done/done wrong so would appreciate any advice about those as well as some tips for beginners.
so here are my observations:
I feel like I was doing well in the early part of the game, I was placed at the southern tip of Africa and soo added 2 more cities and then another at the top of Africa. I soon wanted to expand further but started getting denounced all over for one reason or another. I was then attacked to which I defended and decided to re attack one of their cities and was close to conquering, although army was depleated, but they offered peace and I accepted. I assume this was a mistake as I should’ve just took the city. Is this fair?
after that, another country declared war and this time I followed through and took a big city so my empire was expanding. I put more cities in north however another country totally blocked my passage between south and north so decided to attack some cities in order to make access between my northern and southern cities. once I took what o needed I again made peace.
I decided to focus on my military in order to take over more so all my cities were building military. This stopped everything else progressing. I then decided to attack again only this time I was totally in a mess as the opposition were way more advanced than my armies. So how do you manage to keep advancing at a fast pace like the AI does? Should I not be filling my queues in cities and doing things one at a time so that I can develop the army as I go?
after having 2 nations attack me I decided to attack someone else, not fully understanding what a city nation was. They wanted to make peace with me using a Suzerain delegation. In the delegation it said I could enter their border etc yet none of my military are able to enter? Am I reading this wrong?
Like I say, I’ve used this game as a learning curve but feel like I’ve barely touched on anything in the game really. I have a hundred turns left and I’m going to see it out to the end just to see what happens but I certainly won’t be winning. I’m playing on the easiest level so I reckon I’d definitely be wiped out by now if I wasn’t.
Another question, why are you denounced so quickly by everyone? How do you maintain good relations as no one likes me and didn’t even before I started attacking people?
despite all this I’ve really enjoyed it. I’m 35 and haven’t had a game hook me like this since I was a teenager.
many help, pointers, answers, basic strategy welcome.
thanks in advance