Note points of interest in your head - those can be independent cities or treasure sites that you are interested in and want to have cities next to. I like to have two or 3 stacks first before I feel comfortable enough to leave my throne city and expanding outward.ĭont put your cities closest together, just find nice spots, and such that your city centers are like 8 hexes away from each other, or more if there's no good spots that close.Ĭast Paid Absolution to get a little bit more income. What tips are there for expanding quickly with the absents of these dwellings and independent cities nearby as a human theocrat? I guess my major concern are the roamers as I do not want to expand too quickly and have defenseless cities. Since I am trying to go for a beacon victory, I need at least four cities so I can construct a beacon in each and racial governance XP depends on the number of cities owned by the race and the racial happiness. I also notice that I am too slow to construct a second city and in my current game I did not establish one till turn 70 which seems too late. Recently however, I have not been graced with such luck and I never encounter any independent cities near my starting location anymore and my income is never enough to recruit a large army or have a lot of heroes. With 1-3 vassals adding to my income, I could recruit a large army and get a second and third city quite fast.

Since I always play good and focus on diplomacy, I was able to easily vassalize these smaller cities and they would add their income to mine.

I usually play as a human theocrat and in the past I have been able to almost complete a random map game, but that seemed to be only because I started close to many independent cities and dwellings (one of them was a dragon dwelling).

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