I realized one of the core elements of Civ. this week: population. The more people you have, the better chance you have for success. And success is exactly what I acheived this week, even though it did take some cheating along the way.
I made sure to build a worker on my first move. This would help in building my first city. I was met with no difficulty in having a worker unit, and continued to fortify my city. However, instead of waiting to build combat units, I actually put them into place rather early on. I immediatly placed improvements on these units. What I learned from playing this game is that if I do not have enough defense, I enemy will declare war on me without hesitation. Pretty true to life. Later on in the game, I would make a few cities as far away from the major civilizations as possible. These would be used to provide certain materials for my army, and since they are pretty far away, I do not have to worry about them being conquered.
After I had a good amount of soldiers, I focused alot on destroying the civ. closest to me. Usually, the civ. closest to me gives me the most problems. Also, I was given some great advice. Everytime anyone wants to trade with me, I always game them what they asked for. This was helpful in avoiding some wars. However, when asked for things to help improve scientifically, I refused.
I truely tried to focus alot of my development on creating two things: horses and iron. After acheving these two things, my fighting skills were much improved. Than, after taking some advice from a strategy guide, I placed all my emphasis on scientific development. While I did fall behind, a little, in terms of my defense, I gained much ground after I was able to produce University and observatories.
My biggest problem: GOLD. And the solution to my lack of gold? Cheats of course.
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It seems you have a pretty good strategy. It's definitley a good idea to have a strong standing army in case of any attacks. And it's also smart to trade whenever you can to keep good relations with other countries, but at the same time don't give countries too much to give them any kind of advantage over you. The only thing you have to be careful of is to make sure your settlements aren't too far apart. You have to keep in mind that in order for your civilization to get the full benefit out of all your cities they have to be connected. This will be much harder to do when they're so far apart. Another disadvantage of keeping them so far apart is that if one city gets attacked, it'd be hard and time consuming to send troops from one city to the one under attack to help defend.
There is also the penalty in the game for expanding your empire far away from your capital city (starting location.) To help counter this problem you can select a city ( any one) that is central in your empire, and then dictate that, the selected city is your new capital. Also like tyler said, make sure all of your cities are connected, THAT is crucial. As the game progresses your roads will turn into railways, and you can move troops faster that way.
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