Population explosion

[RMeigs]

Is it only my imagination or the result of my civ-building strategy? It seems that no matter what civ I play, with whatever combination of traits, I always get overrun in or soon after the Middle Ages because the other civs invariably produce more fighing units than I am capable of. This seems to start with more populous and productive cities. At least at Warlord and Regent levels. I haven't really tried anything higher, though I was comfortable at King in Civ2.

[Ethelred]

You are NOT

Building enough cities

Making good use of workers

The AI is at a disadvantage on Warlord and is seriously crippled on Chieftan. On regent its all even.

You must produce enough cities to have the money for research. You must use workers to improve the land so you will get the shield for building city improvements and military units.

There are a lot of helpfull threads for this on the Strategy forum and even some on the General forum.

Here a few of the those presently active that should help a bit.

REX - An Essay

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=59146

The Virtues of being Industrious....

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=50963


How to automate workers correctly? Late game. SO they don't mess things up.
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=59554

[alva]

Tty this one:
http://apolyton.net/forums/forumdisp...136&daysprune=

be carefull as some off the data is outdated due to new patches. Still a good (and a lot) read.

[TacticalGrace]

If they are beating you in the middle ages then try taking the fight to them in the ancient age.

It's becoming a classic strategy already: the archer rush. Just build up 3 or 4 cities and then pump out those archers. Go wack a civ with your stack. Once you've beaten the civ a bit, demand tech and cash.

repeat with another civ.

variants include the swordsman rush and the horseman rush. The horseman rush is good because horsemen are upgradable all the way to cavalry.