How do I skip a unit for one turn without fortifying them?
How do I especially do that for a caravan?
How can you properly work out if you can create an army of 3 identical units?
How do you fucking rush a unit/building?
Its jerky and slow. Avoid.
He could've just said they came from another planet but seems keen to convince people with his bullshit pseudoscience that he knows stuff. I wouldn't trust him with my lunch. - SG
Pressing the unit icon cycles through them.
When you've got 3 of the same units on the same tile an icon to form an army will appear.
A symbol appears under the build progress bar when you can afford to rush.
unit icon is the one in the bottom right which you slide? ahhh, that will be a game changer.
The perspective makes it quite tricky to select the right unit so this will help.
He could've just said they came from another planet but seems keen to convince people with his bullshit pseudoscience that he knows stuff. I wouldn't trust him with my lunch. - SG
So IV is the best to get for a noob to the series? I asked a while back when I had my shit laptop, before getting a new one and never really playing it. Forgot what peeps said.
I know, I know, this is a 'hold my hand' post, but which difficulty would be best? It defaults to 4, aka normal, is this about right for el newbie?
It looks like its gonna be a monumental timesink, so much stuff. I'll be setting too proper about 9 tonight. Looks amazing and exactly the thing I need/want.
For a total newbie you might want to start at 3. Make sure you dont turn barbarians off though. They can be essential for levelling up your troops without having to get involved in a war.
Okay so this is fricking awesome. Done the tutorials and got the hang of things, so gonna start a small, easyish (level 3 as suggested) game and see how it goes
This is glorious, why have I never played it before? Currently got London and York, starting to develop a trade line. Takes a while to develop stuff but I know its a long haul game, love how the map progressively opens.
Why does everything take so fucking long to build? I'm at about 50bc, I've got roughly six lots of military, everything is taking 20-30 turns to build, and if I set citizens to work tiles on production, the town starts to starve, even with trade routes and +food building. This is on 3 setting.
I'm enjoying it, but not really getting it. If I attack a town/city, I'm decimated before I can do fuck all, even with mounted/archer/spear units.
So patience is the key? I'm used to strategy games where its all WAAAARRRRR from the outset. I restarted, went Atilla, and took a weak city (Bogota) early doors that had no affiliation/protection with four sets of warriors. Based my capital in a gem/salt/silver rich area so building mines, getting horses set and just keep military as defence at the moment. Building my first ever catapult, woop.
I was probably jumping the gun, as I know when it clicks I'm golden. I've set workers to automate as there's a ton of shit needs to be done so I'll leave them to it.
I am enjoying it though, six hours has gone by today without any concept of time.
Aye I've got a small empire now, Alexandra just offered me a shit ton of stuff (about 150 gold, iron, gems) in exchange for 30 cotton. Made a couple of friends, slaying barbarians, and now got hoseback, spearmen, archers, catapults, warriors and el sword cunts in my army. Gonna do a new trade route I think.
If you want to be warlike, pick a good civ (leader) for the war bonuses.
The early turns can be a little dull I grant you. Lots of exploring and pressing enter to end turn.
The later turns can take 20 minutes if you are micro-managing and things are getting tense.
Whenever I set them to build roads or whatever, they look shoddy as fuck. I'd already set all the mines I could, so best to let them crack on whilst I get set for important things.
Pushing endgame now (1500s). Game has properly clicked, been running rampant over cities (there's a couple of major strongholds left). My army is massive, I'm generating enough gold to sustain (+20 a move), shit load of resources.
Be careful of over extending yourself. Keep a close eye on your happiness as you expand. One city too many and you can plunge yourself into an angry population, economic recession and civil war.
Currently Yank with 3 cities, about 400AD. Keeping the populace happy, and very slowly building my army. Gonna kick off with someone around 1400/1500AD.