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What I've been doing with the British is building houses will all the wood I get on age one (1,2,or 3) then during age up put almost all villes on wood to get even more houses to keep villagers comming. I stop building them mostly when I get into age 2. My question is, is this a good idea because you'll have so many more villagers than the other person early in the game, or would it be better to spend the wood on markets and even out the reasorces gathered during age up? Thank you for your thoughts and ideas.

 

 

i dont know a huge amount about brits but from what i have seen you should have a few on food during transition but most on wood for a villie boom. have them on food though so yuo can start building units as soon as you get into age 2. and dont stop building vills. ever. until you get to the limit.

From my Experiences, you want every vill on food and send wood from your HC to build houses

It generally depends on your homecity level. If you are 60+ and can use the 500 food age up put about 12 wood, 3 food, 2 gold. If you have the 200 gold and otwer age up put about 11 wood, 6 food. Always put the majority on wood, but make sure that you have carefully planned that you have enough resources for a quick army and villager creation.

Hope it helped. Good luck.

i here that a new strat coming through is get houses only wen u need to and get to the limit b4 u do a house boom cause it means u go over ur set limit, meaning mor eoverall sets but less res early in a game, but maybe a stronger eco late in game, ive never useed brits like this but it makes em hard as hell to get rid of, especaily when teamed up wid some manor cards like manors creating sets card.

As far as I know you can't go over your settler limit with the manors. Once you reached 99 vills they will no longer spawn vills.

Castozor

Buiding manor houses can be way of villes booming only when u already have lot of wood and lot of villes cutting on wood, and only for a while. Mainly in Age2 as for me.

They have a card called Virginia Company that makes manors cost 87 wood, you can send it in age 1. That helps a lot with a manor boom.

yes if you want to build vils in a boom definently send Virginia Company, because then you can get almost double. You can get a large economy as well as get up to 200 pop easily, because it costs even less then a normal house. The only problem with a manor house villager boom is if you are playing in a 4v4 game or if you do not have enough herds on the map, which can happen, especially on Bayou. Then gathering the wood is much harder to gain for mills, or especially expensive plantations.

I don't like the Virginia Company.... it's way too short term and gets you off track of the real game. On one hand if you ship that card to get a few houses it's not worth it. On the other hand if you build a TON of houses with it at once (making the shipment worth while) They will just rush you if they are smart at all and blow you off the map. I don't like Virginia Company and I know i'm not the only one.

Cluster_Bomb:

I don't like the Virginia Company.... it's way too short term and gets you off track of the real game. On one hand if you ship that card to get a few houses it's not worth it. On the other hand if you build a TON of houses with it at once (making the shipment worth while) They will just rush you if they are smart at all and blow you off the map. I don't like Virginia Company and I know i'm not the only one.

This card is very good to get huge numbers of villagers. It is all about time. IF you have 35+ villagers when your enemy only has 20 due to this card it pays for itself very fast. You will have more villagers faster so it is like sending a 700 resource crate over and over. It is all about how you take it. I have had people have 35 villagers at 8 min or less. Yes they had no military but if no one rushes them the win with a mass of units at 10 min. I just aged up with french at 6 min and was attacking with 8 hussars at 7-8min mark. I lost the first game so i made sure to rush the hell out of this guy and he lost maybe 20 settlers and gave up.

In our first game he had 4 rax up at 10 min and 30+ units attacking me and it was all thanks to virgina company card.... If you are a noob then this card helps a lot at 2nd lt or lower rank and not playing rushing civs... like ottos.

srry but that is bullshit, virginia company is never worth it in supremacy, just go for 3 vills and then 700 wood. Also use the 5 and 4 vills shipment to boom later on. This way you can outboom most opponents and keep up military wise.

 The card only safes 135-87=48 wood / manor. In a normal game 3 vills are much more valuable

48 wood per manor build max manors and well that is a whole ton of wood plus with this you can have 5-10 more villagers than a normal brit without Virgina Company. 5-10 more villagers pays for itself very fast.

Bart331:

srry but that is bullshit, virginia company is never worth it in supremacy, just go for 3 vills and then 700 wood. Also use the 5 and 4 vills shipment to boom later on. This way you can outboom most opponents and keep up military wise.

 The card only safes 135-87=48 wood / manor. In a normal game 3 vills are much more valuable

 I'm with Bart 100%

so am I