I have never tried this strategy. Looks interesting. I have always tried for ~9 cities and 5 puppets. So, basically you plaster everything with trading posts, buy all your food from maritime city states. Your cities build temples, collusiums, and circuses. Build workers as needed, and troops as needed. Do you build a troop for each city to boost happiness?



-Why build monuments? You don't need them do you? You do not need to rex new land as placing cities basically does that and you are helplessly far from social policies. The only reason is if a monument is required for a collusium, which I cannot recall off the top of my head.

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