FlashOGroove
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Hi everybody, and thank you for the precious materials available on this forum. I have been able to progress a lot by reading things thanks to you.
Recently I bought BNW, won a few game easily on king level, and tried the emperor level, and I'm meeting with some difficulties: I need some more specific help on 3 topics:
- maintaining happiness, especially during war time,
- maintaining revenue, especially during war time,
- doing something useful during the renaissance era.
Here is a story of my first game:
I had the arabs in standard pangea map, quick speed, normal settings otherwise, with a very good start in a desert full of rivers and encens. I was located on the easternest part of the continent, with two city states between me and Japan north of me, America west of me, tundra south and another city state.
My start was very good, I was able to grow to develop the first pantheon thanks to barbarians and then the first religion thanks to desert folklore. My science was very good too, I build the national college as fast as possible before funding my second city near America, and researched all the techs needed to grow my two cities, build an army and continue to tech the scientifics tech. I even build Petra in my capital, which ended useless because I had only river tiles.
At some point I planed to build a new town next to the Sinaï, but America built Boston first in an inconvenient place. I razed Boston, conquered Washington and made piece, leaving America with New York in the middle of a desert, as a weak buff state. I then built Damas on my ideal place near the Sinaï. My incomes were good, science was good, diplomatic relations not so good but it didn't mattered much because west of Washington was a mountain range which made it impossible for India to attack me. I was friend with Japan who was attacking everyone, conquering Egypt and Assyria far away.
At this point I began to play without purpose, not knowing precisely what I should do and teching a bit at random, things that I thought could be useful for growing my cities even more. I was allied with a lot of city states, but it was consuming a lot of money because India was into city states as well. Japan begin to be less friendly as I they were now looking to my lands, so I figured I would denounce them to become friend with everyone else, which happened.
A few turn later, I declared war on japan, thinking that my camel archers could do a good job until artillery came into play. Obviously, my two buddies America and India declared war on me, destroyed all my trade routes (being in a corner, all my trade routes went though neighbors I was now at war with). My incomes went between -50 to -100 GPT/turn, and my happiness -10, because I lost several commercial deals and city states which were providing precious luxuries.
I was able to fend off the Americans and Indians, and the rebels who began to spam here and there, but soon become bored and abandoned, seeing that I was now behind in tech (Rome was doing good), military (Japan was huge), tourism (Brasil).
So my empire was flourishing one turn thanks from GPT and happiness out of trades and city states, and crumbling down the next due to war. I understand I didn't use the renaissance era correctly and allowed other civs to catch with me or runaway, through bad teching, bad international relationships, and lack of purpose.
How could I improve in the renaissance and modern era? I'm good at making strong cities, but when I do have strong cities, I don't know what to do except managing it?
How can I deal with the GPT and happiness issue? What should I do better?
PS: I have also seen a lot of people mentioning moving food from one town to the other with cargo ships or caravans, something I don't do because I generally (and especially with the arabs) prefer to send them to other civs for money and religious influence (which worked really well in this game by the way). Of course, when Islam was the main religion on my side of the continent, I didn't knew how to take advantage of it (I know how to do a few things, I don't know how to take advantage).
Thanks for the long reading (remembering this game was fun) and your advices.
Recently I bought BNW, won a few game easily on king level, and tried the emperor level, and I'm meeting with some difficulties: I need some more specific help on 3 topics:
- maintaining happiness, especially during war time,
- maintaining revenue, especially during war time,
- doing something useful during the renaissance era.
Here is a story of my first game:
I had the arabs in standard pangea map, quick speed, normal settings otherwise, with a very good start in a desert full of rivers and encens. I was located on the easternest part of the continent, with two city states between me and Japan north of me, America west of me, tundra south and another city state.
My start was very good, I was able to grow to develop the first pantheon thanks to barbarians and then the first religion thanks to desert folklore. My science was very good too, I build the national college as fast as possible before funding my second city near America, and researched all the techs needed to grow my two cities, build an army and continue to tech the scientifics tech. I even build Petra in my capital, which ended useless because I had only river tiles.
At some point I planed to build a new town next to the Sinaï, but America built Boston first in an inconvenient place. I razed Boston, conquered Washington and made piece, leaving America with New York in the middle of a desert, as a weak buff state. I then built Damas on my ideal place near the Sinaï. My incomes were good, science was good, diplomatic relations not so good but it didn't mattered much because west of Washington was a mountain range which made it impossible for India to attack me. I was friend with Japan who was attacking everyone, conquering Egypt and Assyria far away.
At this point I began to play without purpose, not knowing precisely what I should do and teching a bit at random, things that I thought could be useful for growing my cities even more. I was allied with a lot of city states, but it was consuming a lot of money because India was into city states as well. Japan begin to be less friendly as I they were now looking to my lands, so I figured I would denounce them to become friend with everyone else, which happened.
A few turn later, I declared war on japan, thinking that my camel archers could do a good job until artillery came into play. Obviously, my two buddies America and India declared war on me, destroyed all my trade routes (being in a corner, all my trade routes went though neighbors I was now at war with). My incomes went between -50 to -100 GPT/turn, and my happiness -10, because I lost several commercial deals and city states which were providing precious luxuries.
I was able to fend off the Americans and Indians, and the rebels who began to spam here and there, but soon become bored and abandoned, seeing that I was now behind in tech (Rome was doing good), military (Japan was huge), tourism (Brasil).
So my empire was flourishing one turn thanks from GPT and happiness out of trades and city states, and crumbling down the next due to war. I understand I didn't use the renaissance era correctly and allowed other civs to catch with me or runaway, through bad teching, bad international relationships, and lack of purpose.
How could I improve in the renaissance and modern era? I'm good at making strong cities, but when I do have strong cities, I don't know what to do except managing it?
How can I deal with the GPT and happiness issue? What should I do better?
PS: I have also seen a lot of people mentioning moving food from one town to the other with cargo ships or caravans, something I don't do because I generally (and especially with the arabs) prefer to send them to other civs for money and religious influence (which worked really well in this game by the way). Of course, when Islam was the main religion on my side of the continent, I didn't knew how to take advantage of it (I know how to do a few things, I don't know how to take advantage).
Thanks for the long reading (remembering this game was fun) and your advices.