Strike

[Dis]

interesting. I noticed I was still at -10 gold per turn at 0% science and culture, yet my units stopped striking. Once I got down to one unit per city, they stopped disappearing. I lost all my workers though. . Interestingly, I'm doing very well this game. But taking all the English cities and one barbarian city put a hurt on me. I'm playing Kublai Khan. I can't believe my research is this high with him.

I'm not sure what's going on. I can't explain why I do so well some games. The only thing I can come up with is I got a great scientist very early and built an acadamy early.

[Tattila the Hun]

A good way to awoid strike, when you cannot yet build Wealth, is to set your cities to emphasise commerce.

[MoonWolf]

And cottages, build cottages. Find a good spot for a city close to some food resources and build a money-city. Also stop invanding when your income is running low.

[Dis]

my income was great when I started. . But I wanted the entire continent to myself, and figured the English only had 5 or 6 cities, might as well take them all.

I recovered fairly well from this strike. I had already researched currency and just finished researching code of laws. Just took a few turns to get my courthouses up. In hindsight, I could have ran wealth in a few cities, while I built courthouses in the rest. But I elected to build courthouses in all my cities at once. And I wanted to get my forges up and running as well. I lost my army, but no sweat, I had the continent to myself, and I had no use for it anymore. I did not get in a war for the rest of the game.

I lost my warlord unit though. That's okay, I only wanted him so I could build west point.

My point was I as running -10 gold/turn for about 6 or possibly 9 turns. But I wasn't losing any units!! Because I had no more units to lose. The game wouldn't take away my last city defender (I did lose all my workers though). I thought it would start selling buildings, luckily that did not happen. So essentually I got away with losing 10 gold per turn without having to pay for it.

It ended up being my 2nd highest space victory. Kind of strange getting a space victory with the mongols, but oh well. I just can't believe I did this well with a non financial civ. I'm very happy with this game.

keshiks rock.

[Tattila the Hun]

I'd propably have burned few of the marginal english cities, and settled later. (Or taken over the barb city that surely plops up.)

[Sabre2th]

Kublai's one of my favorites... perfect if you feel like an early war. Keshiks alone can run over a Civ in no time. When I do that, though, I generally take something more like the Tattila approach. I usually prefer my city sites over the AI anyway