What to do? (huge earth domination attempt)

[shl7070]

For the first time I played with huge map and got somewhat bogged down.

My empire is the largest, 2nd place in score (but soon 1st place) and the year is 1768.

The research is very slow to all players so as I'm the first to industrial in 1750AD, All luxuries connected and all relevant strategic resources. Govt. is Monarchy because of the never ending wars.

The empire is sprawling from Europe to china and includes north africa and almost all asia, about 65 cities most of which are corrupt. The military is stretched thin in the Eastern wars and persia is looming beyond the atlantic and pacific (they declared war).

so what to do? (save file uses sn00py terrain, ptw rules,played on c3complete)

 

[vmxa]

Where to start, yes that is a good question. Sprawling is an apted discription. Nearly choatic is another.

We always talk about too few workers and it has held you back. The capitol has grass tiles that do not even have a road. Pretty much a crime IMO. You are trying to build a wonder and do not even have a single mine in the city?

This place should have been mined and railed by now. gang all the workers so they can get a tile done in one turn. Immediately made 20 more workers.

You are at war with China, they should be eliminated in hurry, you have 3 armies and they have 4 towns, not far away either.

Why are you researching Nationalism? It is an optional tech, you have no use for it.

Why have you not learned Electricity and gotten RP?

Why do you not have a pre going for the ToE?

Number 2 issue, workers number 1, towns are too far apart and there are too many places that should have a town. You should have 100 towns by now. Not a single settler in sight???

I found workers sleeping, what? You do know you have Steam, so no workers can be sleeping or working on mountains an shills or probably not even mines. Rails, rails RAILS.

I am not going to look at towns as I am sure they need a lot of changes. Riga making a temple. It has 6 happy faces now and has no need of a temple.

As to happines, why not get those silks in your border? Switch Grand River to a settler and rush it. Sell the court.

Kharkov switch market to settler, sell the lib and the court. Put some pop to specialist. Yes they are not as good ion civ3, but better than nothing.

Review all town to sell of structures that are not needed and drop the maint form 115 to a much lower number.

Stop building troops that will take 60 or more turns.

Mass your forces and clear your continent, while building up a force to hit Persia.

 

[vmxa]

PS:
Only build Cossacks, no longbows and maybe 2 places making muskets that will switch to infantry.

Start on some galleons in the far west. They will need 4 frigates to cover them, but hold off on them for a bit to see how the timing of the invasion looks.

 

[shl7070]

Thanks for the advice. Regarding the resting workers, it's because i got the steam power one turn before and I made a save before all were assigned. by 1820 all areas got connected, all opposition on my continent crushed and invasion is in full swing, regarding the money, selling and setting specialist helped until adam smith was completed