If you have gone beyond Construction and didn't conquer any territory you either started alone in the continent (which is usually a bad thing) or you blew it. There are two optimal moments early game to go to war: when you just research Bronze Working and get bronze, build lots of Axemen and attack the closest neighbor so you get him before he builds good units, and when you research construction and you build catapults. If you never go to war you won't expand much and won't get a good head start. Go to war early but don't go to war often. Conversely, if your city is only making 4 hammers a turn, you should bother with a forge. You could better use those hammers to build a military unit. Then you build commerce buildings in commerce cities and production buildings in production cities.A corollary of this tip is that you don't have and you shouldn't build every building in every city +25% gold is useless if your city makes 4 gold each turn. Ideally, you want to have production cities, built around hills / production resources, and commerce cities built around grasslands / flood plains with lots and lots of cottages in it's fat cross. I think Civ IV players will be very unanimous that they are helpful, but I would like also some feedback and input from some other redditors: Lastly, I would like to give three tips that helped me greatly. The tips are all over the place, but are all sound advice. It might be a bit too advanced for newbies, but it's very good to get an idea of how advanced Civ players think.Īlso in the forums there is a topic called Condensed tips for begginers.
#CIVILIZATION 4 SERIES#
There's a series of posts by Sisutil called the All Leaders Challenge where he plays a game with almost every leader in the game, playing around 10 turns at a time, commenting on them and letting the members give feedback in each round. The CivFanatics forum is very, very good for strategies and tips. Is an explained walkthrough, very instructive. Maybe is not a Tutorial as much as a reference guide, but you should read the whole thing) In particular, I recommend these two guides: You should start with the Introductory Courses. It's a wonderful resource and has enough guides to blow your mind. In the left sidebar there is a link under the Civ IV section called the War Academy. First, the vanilla Civ has a tutorial, the expansions don't.
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But I think if it's your first time playing, you're better off without them. Now, most people will tell you installing Beyond the Sword and getting the two expansions content is essential. But BtS has both the vanilla scenarios and the BtS ones, so you'll likely never even think about the ones you're missing from Warlords. The only difference between Warlords and BtS is some Warlords exclusive scenarios.
#CIVILIZATION 4 INSTALL#
So what should you install? If you want the whole thing you should install just Beyond the Sword: it has all the gameplay mechanics and additions from Warlords and BtS. It's a different kind of game, you should play it, it's flawed in some ways but very fun, but right now we want to get you addicted to Civilization. Gameplay is very different from Civ IV, only the engine is the same. One thing about Civ is thaof Civlization, based on the original Colonization game by Sid Meier.
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What should you install? Let's do a quick rundown of the options:
#CIVILIZATION 4 PC#
Why so many games? If you bought the Civilization IV Complete you have four games on your Steam list (seven, actually, but those duplicates are the Mac / PC versions and are a result of having a third party doing the Mac port). If you recently purchased Civilization 4 and are confused as to what to do (we don't blame you, the game is incredibly in-depth) this guide should help.