One of the easiest wins ever, and I began to feel respect for the Venetian Civ. Anyway, I was thinking of starting to raze to go for a Dom win when suddenly I got Diplomatic from all the city-state allies, and game over. After she saw me steamroll a couple other Civs, though, she moved into Afraid status. (I wasn't razing at the time) My biggest competitor was my (by late game) neighbor China, who was a warmonger, but had stayed friends most of the game. My tech was so high, and I had so much happiness (somewhere between 70-90), that I ended up taking about 2/5ths of the continent before running low on happiness. Eventually, goaded by other Civs, I went into all-out warfare. I was also careful where my trade routes went, keeping in mind war. And my science was so high that I out-teched all the other Civs. Eventually I had them all and was still rich as hell. I was making so much money, that I allied all of the cultural city-states, which I used to go Patronage, which boosted my science and happiness, and made it easier to ally more city states. I got Venice once when playing on a large peninsula-ed Pangaea map on Prince. This civilization is basically if you can live through the early game and get the required wonders, you will win diplomatically. Many wonders arent even a problem getting either because you don't need buildings of each kind in all cities but just in the capital, so for example national college, circus maximus, oxford, and east empire compony are all really easy to monopolize on. Science on the other hand you desperately need so it's better to take. You can go down patronage or rationalism afterwards but I think the extra science is better because you will be having allied city states flowing out your ass with all the money you make so you don't need any help with that. The social policy trees that I like to go down are tradition at the start to get growth, and then go into exploration for all the amazing benefits that gives, and commerce for the boost in gold and happiness. The civilization is really weak early because you cannot use production for units other than in your capital, where I try to pump out wonders and trade routes as much as possible.
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Then when late game shows up and you have 20 some trade routes, each giving you 30-40 gold, you can pretty much just buy everything from your 7 or so city states. I personally try to rush colossus and great lighthouse with just having as many units as I need to survive.
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When you notice that you have 20,000 gold in the bank and there are no buildings to spend it on, you can get a massive army and destroy any country you want. I'm not that great at the game, but when I get +1000 gold per turn late game, I'm pretty sure that it's a good civ. Being able to take control of puppeted armies and buying units/buildings in puppeted cities has its perks but I feel Venice is too weak of a civilization to last, especially on harder difficulties against aggressive, militaristic civilizations.Īm I missing something? I fail to see the real advantage of using Venice.
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I am having a difficult time understanding how to effectively use theĪt first glance, the Venice Civilization seems significantly weaker than other civs: with the primary reason being that they CANNOT build/buy settlers.