Warrior too easy and Prince a bit hard need advice

[Towerbooks3192]

I really need help. I managed to finish a game or two on prince and I decided to go up to warrior since I played on continents and its a bit easy to clear the continent out and prepare to conquer the other one. I now tried to play warrior on Pangaea and I am having trouble since I managed to eliminate Dido as Assyria however I am facing rebels and Persia is preparing to crush me so I abandoned my game.

Any tips on how I could improve my game? I feel Prince is a bit hard for me and warrior is easy and I did not remember a single AI declared war on me.

 

[DemonMaster]

Since you like to play in a warmonger style, I assume that you are taken the Honor path. Rebels, I guess that rebels means that your empire is unhappy. One way to help this is to take the Military Caste SP (I think that's the name) who gives you happiness for garrisoned units. If you don't want good units just sitting an a city, build scouts (fast to build) and place them as garrison. Oh, yes I forgot, in your puppet empire, don't forget to burn crap cities that don't gives you resources. Also if you can target and conquer/cripple a foe before he has his era so to speak, good.

 

[Towerbooks3192]

I usually go for a quick expansion and only pick honor second since I want to get the free settler and worker. I rarely do honor first. I don't want to stick to warmongering and I sort of don't want to rush either. Its just that I don't know when to stop once I start warmongering and end up crippling my empire due to unhappiness.

Also if I sort of expand slower than usual, I feel I am getting behind and if I go warmongering, I get crippled by unhappiness. I need to find the right balance or even the right warmongering civ or the right civ to have an open-ended victory condition with.

 

[joncnunn]

How many cities are you planning on self-building? (vs conquering). If your only planning on self-building 4 cities and then conquering the rest, liberty is a waste.
Liberty provides all of 1 happiness per city in the empire (after trade connections.)

Tradition provides: 50% population reduced unhappiness in the capital + every 10th citizen per city has no unhappiness.

Also, for any sort of warmongering, you want a religion with a happiness bonus that can be attached to every city. (There are several.)

 

[Towerbooks3192]

How many cities are you planning on self-building? (vs conquering). If your only planning on self-building 4 cities and then conquering the rest, liberty is a waste.
Liberty provides all of 1 happiness per city in the empire (after trade connections.)

Tradition provides: 50% population reduced unhappiness in the capital + every 10th citizen per city has no unhappiness.

Also, for any sort of warmongering, you want a religion with a happiness bonus that can be attached to every city. (There are several.)

I guess I will start to choose honor over anything in the early game. I usually avoid that because the bonus in some of them only kicks in when I start to war monger or upgrade my units.

I have a habit of bee-lining writing and setting my capital to build the great library asap and while its constructing it, I usually bee-line bronze working and usually choose iron working as the free tech. I don't know if its such a good idea.

Since I just discovered that wonders still work when you conquer a city with a wonder, I guess I will refrain from worrying about them too much.

I just need some tips for opening moves for war mongering kind of playstyle and what to look for on where to expand .

 

[joncnunn]

I guess I will start to choose honor over anything in the early game. I usually avoid that because the bonus in some of them only kicks in when I start to war monger or upgrade my units.

I have a habit of bee-lining writing and setting my capital to build the great library asap and while its constructing it, I usually bee-line bronze working and usually choose iron working as the free tech. I don't know if its such a good idea.

Since I just discovered that wonders still work when you conquer a city with a wonder, I guess I will refrain from worrying about them too much.

I just need some tips for opening moves for war mongering kind of playstyle and what to look for on where to expand .

Honor is the weakest starting policy (as a first one); it's a much better second one (say after Tradition if your only founding a few cities)

Also Great Library is not compatible with early game warmongering. For early game warmongering, you want the regular library and invest the difference in the cost in something else.

 

[Towerbooks3192]

Honor is the weakest starting policy (as a first one); it's a much better second one (say after Tradition if your only founding a few cities)

Also Great Library is not compatible with early game warmongering. For early game warmongering, you want the regular library and invest the difference in the cost in something else.

Now that identifies one of my weak points. I know its said in the description that honor is for small empires, so 'small' means I only found a few cities (4 to take advantage of the max numbers of bonus building) and just conquer the rest? Ok I will try that. I guess getting the paper maker as China earlier rather than getting a great library even with the free tech would free up my capital for production.

Now on to my next problem. What about research priorities? I think as China bee-lining writing to get the paper maker works but not sure where to get from there? I also read that getting tons of archers early would give me a chokuno army with great stats (if I manage to keep them alive that is). With the importance of trade routes in BNW, Should my priorities be beeline writing (for paper maker)-> Archery (early defense and for future Cho-ko-nu army)-> animal husbandry (for trade routes)?

I am a bit apprehensive about getting land trade routes because the only civ nearby is usually my next target.

 

[joncnunn]

The beeline to Writing is the most popular opening tech tactic as every civ; not just China.

Normally the next few techs are those allowing you to work luxury tiles near you.

 

[Towerbooks3192]

The beeline to Writing is the most popular opening tech tactic as every civ; not just China.

Normally the next few techs are those allowing you to work luxury tiles near you.

Ok then. I will just have to stop beeline writing-> great library then. I will try it and see how it goes. Thanks!

 

[Towerbooks3192]

Just an update. Did I place my city well? I am playing on prince level now and I am starting to gain some confidence that I can do it. I combined the best of both Liberty and Freedom to get some good cities and then started with Honor. Now I just need to conquer the 2 remaining Dutch cities. So should I raze utrecht and eliminate the Dutch or just raze Utrecht and get all what I can get for the peace deal. As far as I know, Utrecht only provides oranges and I already sold my surplus to Askia and I think with Gaja Madah as well. Don't know what the other city holds but I am pretty sure its not much of a big city.

 

[black8]

in this case,just eliminate them entirely,at least that is what i would do.If you have the upper hand military wise,go for it.