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Originally posted by Diplo Mongolia
bah, all this overexpansion is overrated. my monarch wins have mostly been when I've stayed small, 4-5 cities (on a standard size map), fairly specialized, constructing lots of wonders and specialists and enough defences to stay alive. I compete or lead in tech until the AI start catching up around middle ages, then I throw together an army and conquer myself a sufficiently large empire. doesn't always work though...
bah, all this overexpansion is overrated. my monarch wins have mostly been when I've stayed small, 4-5 cities (on a standard size map), fairly specialized, constructing lots of wonders and specialists and enough defences to stay alive. I compete or lead in tech until the AI start catching up around middle ages, then I throw together an army and conquer myself a sufficiently large empire. doesn't always work though...
Anyways, a specialist economy does indeed take up less space and is less affected by surrounding terrain (save for food resources) than a cottage economy which in turn requires lots of good land in order to make good use of it. Therein lies the greatness of the game, you can achieve similar results with a variety of ways.
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