Hansa's Basics
by: Aztexia
- The first million land bascic strategy I use. Of course it's not perfect and
goes for all civs and strategies, but I think is good to have as an idea for a
standard start.
General advice.
- Take turns one and one, really saves a lot of turns, though time expensive. Every turn if its any use send new explorers, trade and build to be as effective as you can.
- Never ever have any army, don't build any great wall
- When explore cost is less then 3*horse cost send no horses, else send 3x horses and have avarage explorers/4+some stables
- Never stock to much, you want as much of your production as possible to become food for explorers as soon as possible.
- have 5% of your land as mage towers, research food.
- Each october goto status and see how much food you need during the winter. You should have enough food to survive 5 months of winter. Also remember that due to population increase your food use will become higher as the winter go. If necessary stop new exporers, selling food, producing horses, lower pop groth rate to not starve during winter.
Before you start:
- Demolish your 10 archers
- Set popularion growth to extremely high
- Set tool makers to 0 %
- set 90 tool makers on build queue, then woodcutters to fill the forests, then a few farms and last some iron mines to fill the mountains.
- (send out explorers- most times i wait with this to march 1001 so i have less problem to stop starvation first winter)
- make the order to demolish the towers and gold mines, make sure they are always at the bottom of your queue so they have the lowest prioroty.
First year
Every month buy tools so you have enough for all your builders. Make absolutely sure you have enough food during the winter so you don't starve. Sell some iron first if you are low on gold, possibly some wood to if you really need gold.
Then.
Always have enough but not to many
- houses so your population can grow
- enough town centers so you use all your food on explorers
- wood cutters to get wood
- iron mines to get iron
- markets to get gold by selling (wood is the best thing to sell)
- tool makers to get builders
- stables, when you start sending horse with the explorers
- people, when you notice you get to many unused people lower the food rate.
The rest of the land should be hunters and farms, the more of theese you manage to squice in the better.
When tools get more expensive to buy, build them with your tool amkers instead, set them to 20-30%, 100% when you are building new tool makers.
Explore all lands when you need woodcutters or ironmines else explore all plains.
Buildings you don't need this early is wineries, stables (before your explorers need them), gold mines, towers, forts.
When you reach a million land you should start to worry about wall and army, but thats a hole other strategy.
When able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.
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Hansa - a veteran player of 1000ad
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