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I never totally understood the best way to play venice. I always just established my happy little hermit kingdom with my one city challenge gogogo, allied every city state through the power of money, then waited for diplo victory to happen. City state buyouts always seemed dumb because they'd be puppet cities that I couldn't really do anything with, and I'd get more from having them as a city state ally, especially for diplo purposes- yessiree
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The single most important disadvantage with Venice is that Venice is trash tier late game. Being on one city means you have considerable fewer population than other civs. You get less science per turn, less production per turn, less great people generation per turn than civs with more cities. It's a simple number game.
This isn't even considering that fact that multiplayer games almost always end in a domination victory, assuming you're playing against at least semi-competent players. All you have to do to screw over a sim city Venice is to just plunder his long distance trade routes. Trade routes are Venice's lifeline. Take that away from Venice and Venice becomes pretty much irrelevant.
imo, Venice's advantages are that that you can focus on population growth all the time (since you won't be building settlers); you can get national wonders up before other players (national college); you can get happiness from city states very easily meaning your first golden age will come sooner than normal.
This means Venice is a strong EARLY game civ, and as such you have to do something with that advantage and hope you can snowball from there. Otherwise you'll end up being irrelevant. Your goal as Venice is to destroy at least one civ with an early timing push (comp bow + swords + cavs).
Venice's early game advantage means you get more free turns to focus on military. You can usually afford to have built/prebuilt a sizable army, have a militaristic city state ally, built TerraCotta by the time other players have just finished planting their expansions.- Empire
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Step 1. Git gudIn post 667, Alisae wrote:If someone is willing to TEACH me Civ 6 I'll play it.
But I rather do 5.
Also I'm usually free as long as its not late Tuesday since I have class then.- Alisae
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I will try 6 again eventually, but 5 has been a lot more fun.
I tried a huge Fractal map with Arabia. More stressful, went for the Diplo win, but had Venice being a bitch on another island (thought fractal was meant to be one large and lots of small) unfortunately only 12 city states spawned and Venice ate about 4 of them. Still won easily, with a Science Victory not so far away, if all else failed. Poland was about 200 points ahead of me throughout, only in the last bit of the game (Satellites) did I find he had 16 cities. Not sure what the computer was doing there. I took China out. They were pissing me off.
I've just started another game as Austria, who I've never seen or played against before. It was randomly chosen. Turn 200 currently. I've probably commited myself to culture now, although thanks to being randomly assigned a Archipelago map I wasnt able to get cities out easily or in many good food spaces (masses of production though) got 3 now, plus married Wittenberg. America has grown exponentially more than me though... this could be my second loss on Prince (I always say I should buff up my diffuculty). China beat me once a couple years back, it's why I take them out almost every game Im in with them.Mostly retired. Unless you ask or it's something interesting.- PJ.
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