
Love this game, far better than settlers ever was. What hjd suggested was a good idea, but not applicable in my case (imo), I just needed to tweak and be a little more bold. When I load it up this afternoon again, I'm going to prevent some goods from going into the HQ because theres a 5 roads into one junction and it's getting chocka there which I think is my main issue, so will get some of the raw goods to go into the two other warehouses (one at either end of my territory) and see if the wine can reach the marble mine more easily!


I've had a few issues in the last 15 minutes of play with insufficient bread/wine, so I've built 3 more farms and 3 more vineyards + winerys. I've moved my sentrys around far enough to reach the gold which is producing. Then there was some to-ing and fro-ing, some quick SAVEs and more bold moves, thought I had-it at one stage, but I've now built my training building and arena. THIS time, as I was on the glacial lake map, I focused on moving counter-clockwise to avoid them, so I had more infrastructure before I met them, didn't delay it much longer, but also, as soon as I saw them building a second sentry near my border I moved to attack the first one, moved in, destroyed it, which destroyed the land they were building the second one on. I think I just wasn't bold enough to go attack the second I saw the barbarians on my border. So I have the semi-optimal minimal set of buildings for empire already. I worked out (the hard way) what buildings I had to build in which order, without realising I can't build a saw mill because I've run out of planks (and have no saw mill to make any more) and the same with the stone mason etc. I couldn't really do what I did much different.
