Zulu Strat
by: Rizen
January 1000
First of all, you will want to disband all 10 Archers since they do not serve any purpose this early in the game. Next set the food ratio to very high...this will give you a steady population growth. Ok now you are almost ready to take some turns.
Queue 166 toolmakers
Buy 1000 wood on local market (make sure you do this on local trade and not on automatic trade!!!)
Queue 205 woodcutters
Queue 99 iron mines
Take 3 turns
April 1000
Set toolmakers to 20%
Take 5 turns
September 1000
Queue 101 iron mines
Queue 2 town centers
Auto sell 300 wood. This is so you have to gold to build your town centers. At this point you should be producing 900 wood per turn.
Take 3 turns.
December 1000
Queue 13 town centers
Take 3 turns
March 1001
Queue 11 town centers
Take 3 turns
June 1001
Set food rationing to normal. By now you are eating more food than you are producing.
Send 204 explorers to find forest land
Queue 12 more town centers.
Take 3 turns
September 1001
Queue 139 hunters
Queue 11 more town centers
Take 2 turns
November 1001
Set food rationing to extremely high
Take 1 turn
December 1001
Queue 132 hunters
Queue 8 town centers
Send 330 explorers to find forest land.
Take 3 turns
March 1002
Queue 88 hunters
Take 3 turns
June 2002
Queue 212 hunters
Send 384 explorers to find plains land now that you dont have any.
Ok this should give you a decent start. Keep in mind that you are going to want to lower your food rationing at some point. You always want to make sure you have enough people to work, if you dont it could cut into you production so bad that you have waste turns building your population.
As a Zulu you want to keep forest and plains land about the same. Or at least I do. Dont be afraid to PM vets in game as they can give you tips. Though for starters heres a couple of my own.
1. As Zulus dont ever send explorers to find moutian land only. The initial 500 is plenty to start out with. By the time you are big enough to need more iron mines you should be producing enough food to easily buy what iron you need on the local market.
2. You will never win Blitz as an explorer I suggest that you use an attacking civ if you ever want to reach the top.
For Bltz only
Research
100 food
10 space
10 markets
100 food
5 markets
100 fort space
50 attack
100 conquered land
after that it is you choice.
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