What to do if you have NO COAL!

[Chieftess]

Build up a ton of artillery and conquer the civ that has coal!

 

[jerVL/kg]

Ok, as it turned out I finally did find coal, it was way to the north of Napoleon's continent amidst a bee's nest of barbarian cities. (Of course he kept sending crappy units up there which just gave the barbarians free experience, the longbows were all CGIII when I got there! ) It took awhile to get a city planted and a mine built, and then I discovered it wasn't hooked up to my empire, because the city wasn't on the coast. So then I had to build another city to hook up the coal with my empire...and by that time Monty had hooked up his coal and I traded him Wine for it.

Of course, by the time I get the rails built, I'll have airports...

 

[malekithe]

When I first read the title of this thread, my first response was, "Thank god you don't have any real problems."

 

[jerVL/kg]

When I first read the title of this thread, my first response was, "Thank god you don't have any real problems."

Heh -- well, you guys were right in the sense that lacking railroads turned out not to be as big a problem as I thought it would be...as for Coal Plants? Bah, never build 'em anyway. (Already got two GE's poised to build the Three Gorges Dam as soon as it becomes available...)

 

[magritte]

If you don't want to declare war on Montezuma, Samson's idea seems best. Though it's worth saying that coal is nowhere near as critical as it was in Civ 3.