The trick is finding the other civs from the start and wiping them out before they can generate founding father points and soldiers. That way you can get all the founding father bonuses and play all the way till the click runs out without worrying about another civ declaring independence
Just started playing this game that came bundled with some other titles that I bought a while back. I played the original version of Colonization when it first came out and this one is a bit different. I'm hoping your video will get me up to speed. The tip about using a treasure wagon to explore is actually great! Also to stop and help with that pronunciation of Stuyvesant... It's pronounced Sty vess ant (It's actually quite a common name in New York City still. One of the large housing estates is called Stuyvesant town. There's also a section of Brooklyn called Bedford Stuyvesant. The Dutch West India company sent Peter Stuyvesant to govern New Amsterdam a few years after it's founding. He'd already lost a leg to pirates before that. He was responsible for sorting out the colony including building a wall along the north edge of the colony to keep the natives out. That's where Wall Street gets its name. Unfortunately he didn't fare too well as he'd just gotten the colony turned around and profitable when the British sailed in and took over. While Stuyvesant was all for manning the fort and fighting no one else in town cared who was governing them. The English captain offered free passage back to Europe for any that didn't care to stay in an English colony (renamed New York - in honor of the Duke of York whose birthday the surrender came on) No one elected to take the free passage home. Even Stuyvesant stayed and retired to a farm up near where Stuyvesant town is now located. 14th Street and 3rd ave. Peter Minuit was another name you had trouble with. That's Peter Min you ette (pronounced like the old dance) He was actually the FIRST governor of New Amsterdam. He's reputed to have bought the island of Manhattan from the natives for $24 (actually he gave them trade goods that were valued more closely to $300) Still not a bad deal for New York City real estate.
I’ve keep on going back to this game a million times even though it makes me miserable and I always give up at around turn 150 way before I have a chance to commit revolution cause it gets too complicated micromanaging all the settlements. I’ve probably played about 100 games past turn 100 and have only beaten it 4 times. I am trying to beat this on Explorer for the first time
French is best if you want to build through population expansion (my preferred method). Basically, you end up with a ton of natives and you can train your colonists super quickly. You get ahead quickly and build quickly. I generally follow this: - Buy skilled immigrants until the cost to do so equals the normal cost - Buy guns so you can equip soldiers and build ships until you have the settlements in place to make your own guns - Sell your treasures even though you only get half the cash - rather than wait ages for a Galleon at which point you're probably already rich from trade - so you can do the previously mentioned things - Focus on one resource per settlement (ex. don't try to do fur and mining at the same time) - Use skilled colonists to lessen the food burden (first use a regular colonist, then upgrade as needed; don't spam a settlement with unnecessary people) - Always focus on food production (should be 3-4 of your 8 tiles) - Send criminals, indentured servants, converted natives, and free colonists to live with natives when possible (don't conquer native settlements unless they offer no real useful skills, like cotton planter when there's no significant cotton tiles for you) -- On the same note, be careful of your liberty, you could swallow a native settlement through cultural expansion before you can exhaust their teaching benefits
Also, I build 4-5 privateers to sap the other colonists of strength, without having to go to war. And, build as many ships of the line. Two can kill one of the King's man-of-war. The first dies; the second survives and returns to port, so usually a one-for-one swap!
You should have went back to EUR and picked up your hardy pioneer and master carpenter immediately. Plus turned your soldier and carpenter into dragoons. And took all the fish.
Thanks for the tutorial! :) I played the original version a long time ago and enjoyed it quite a lot. Funny how so many comments focus on pronunciation... yes, okay, cool, nice to know, but we're all here to see how to play the game.. spelling and pronunciation will be concerns for later. :p
You'll also need enough rebel sentiment to declare independence which might be hard if all you have are a bunch of free colonist soldiers/dragoons. Also if you look at the third or fourth video in the series you'll see I ended up founding a colony just to harvest the fish and ship them to my first settlement so it things turn out for the best in the end.
I almost made angry chimp noises when i saw you making your colony. Ignoring you could have had FOUR fishies, all that food abundance would let you create new free colonists and you could have gotten that tobacco by just making a settlement for just that purpose and then caravaned the resource to your fishing village for cigarr processing. As a matter of fact *chimp noises, and crashes*
Did you manage to win the Europe War? I play the game several time and fail hard so many times in normal difficulty. I play the old version back in the 90"and this new one seem to be extremely unbalance or something :S
@@lucasdamotta2931 War against Europe* War of Independence*... At this point I imagine the version of the game I had was bug, since I try all approaches you could imagine to no success and the biggest fail of this version is having no ability to stack units since 100 dragons can lose to a single one, also Europe units win battles 2/3 so you need to surpass their size by a huge margin. I end-up just using all kind of cheats and it was clear how bad the balance was on the version I was playing. Hoping in the future they make a similar game with production and trading been as important as keeping a healthy army to help expand into new territories without destroy Indian locals entirely but keep them as a friendly thing around. This game didn't show to have a good level of automatization but you have the option to do so once you learn how to config trade routes and make the best out of trading carts.
Actually you can fight a defensive war but you got take your stand in a inner continent fortified city, never on the coast because their navy will simply raze your defense bonus to the ground on the blink of an eye.
You can pick up any settler, or even a free colonist and hence your have tools stocked in your city warehouse, you can turn the settler into a pioneer by clicking on him and choosing a profession.
The trick is finding the other civs from the start and wiping them out before they can generate founding father points and soldiers. That way you can get all the founding father bonuses and play all the way till the click runs out without worrying about another civ declaring independence
Just started playing this game that came bundled with some other titles that I bought a while back. I played the original version of Colonization when it first came out and this one is a bit different.
I'm hoping your video will get me up to speed. The tip about using a treasure wagon to explore is actually great!
Also to stop and help with that pronunciation of Stuyvesant... It's pronounced Sty vess ant (It's actually quite a common name in New York City still. One of the large housing estates is called Stuyvesant town. There's also a section of Brooklyn called Bedford Stuyvesant. The Dutch West India company sent Peter Stuyvesant to govern New Amsterdam a few years after it's founding. He'd already lost a leg to pirates before that. He was responsible for sorting out the colony including building a wall along the north edge of the colony to keep the natives out. That's where Wall Street gets its name.
Unfortunately he didn't fare too well as he'd just gotten the colony turned around and profitable when the British sailed in and took over. While Stuyvesant was all for manning the fort and fighting no one else in town cared who was governing them. The English captain offered free passage back to Europe for any that didn't care to stay in an English colony (renamed New York - in honor of the Duke of York whose birthday the surrender came on) No one elected to take the free passage home. Even Stuyvesant stayed and retired to a farm up near where Stuyvesant town is now located. 14th Street and 3rd ave.
Peter Minuit was another name you had trouble with. That's Peter Min you ette (pronounced like the old dance) He was actually the FIRST governor of New Amsterdam. He's reputed to have bought the island of Manhattan from the natives for $24 (actually he gave them trade goods that were valued more closely to $300) Still not a bad deal for New York City real estate.
I don't understand why they did not include a tutorial. It is quite different from civ 4.
They did
no need. game is remake of game from 90s when you didn't need tuts just to play and explore.
I remember playing this on my dad's computer and having no clue how to do anything and desperation trying to win the game.
It has one just most people don’t read and just turn it off
@@basileusbasil4041 That's part of the fun ;)
I still think this is one of the best games/expansions. I enjoy this game more than the core Civ IV
15:10 good tip for liberty bells. I had just collected a ton of lumber at the beginning of the game. Liberty bells look like culture point from CIV4.
I’ve keep on going back to this game a million times even though it makes me miserable and I always give up at around turn 150 way before I have a chance to commit revolution cause it gets too complicated micromanaging all the settlements. I’ve probably played about 100 games past turn 100 and have only beaten it 4 times. I am trying to beat this on Explorer for the first time
You need play tall with small number of really good colony's
the hardest part is to do the revolution before the other colonies...
French is best if you want to build through population expansion (my preferred method). Basically, you end up with a ton of natives and you can train your colonists super quickly. You get ahead quickly and build quickly.
I generally follow this:
- Buy skilled immigrants until the cost to do so equals the normal cost
- Buy guns so you can equip soldiers and build ships until you have the settlements in place to make your own guns
- Sell your treasures even though you only get half the cash - rather than wait ages for a Galleon at which point you're probably already rich from trade - so you can do the previously mentioned things
- Focus on one resource per settlement (ex. don't try to do fur and mining at the same time)
- Use skilled colonists to lessen the food burden (first use a regular colonist, then upgrade as needed; don't spam a settlement with unnecessary people)
- Always focus on food production (should be 3-4 of your 8 tiles)
- Send criminals, indentured servants, converted natives, and free colonists to live with natives when possible (don't conquer native settlements unless they offer no real useful skills, like cotton planter when there's no significant cotton tiles for you)
-- On the same note, be careful of your liberty, you could swallow a native settlement through cultural expansion before you can exhaust their teaching benefits
Also, I build 4-5 privateers to sap the other colonists of strength, without having to go to war.
And, build as many ships of the line. Two can kill one of the King's man-of-war. The first dies; the second survives and returns to port, so usually a one-for-one swap!
excellent tutorial, wanted to play some civ 4 mod and this one I noticed is a stand alone game which I have anyway.
You should have went back to EUR and picked up your hardy pioneer and master carpenter immediately. Plus turned your soldier and carpenter into dragoons. And took all the fish.
Thanks for this informative series. It really cleared up some things for me.
And it's not Peter Stooyvisant; it's peter Stie-vesant
I didn’t know the Dutch had a king in 1492 AD. Didn’t they have one for at least like another 300 years?
Great video, man! Keep them up!
Thanks for the tutorial! :) I played the original version a long time ago and enjoyed it quite a lot. Funny how so many comments focus on pronunciation... yes, okay, cool, nice to know, but we're all here to see how to play the game.. spelling and pronunciation will be concerns for later. :p
you had to settle the 4 fish thats too good to pass food+guns is all you need!
You'll also need enough rebel sentiment to declare independence which might be hard if all you have are a bunch of free colonist soldiers/dragoons. Also if you look at the third or fourth video in the series you'll see I ended up founding a colony just to harvest the fish and ship them to my first settlement so it things turn out for the best in the end.
I almost made angry chimp noises when i saw you making your colony. Ignoring you could have had FOUR fishies, all that food abundance would let you create new free colonists and you could have gotten that tobacco by just making a settlement for just that purpose and then caravaned the resource to your fishing village for cigarr processing. As a matter of fact *chimp noises, and crashes*
Hi RazingHel, do you know the mod TAC ? Its made by international Modders and really awesome ! Thanks to your videos , Keep going! 😀
Dave Landau is great on that.
england starts with few hudnred gold extra, i think was 100,200 or 300
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Did you manage to win the Europe War?
I play the game several time and fail hard so many times in normal difficulty.
I play the old version back in the 90"and this new one seem to be extremely unbalance or something :S
Yes, I've won the Europe victory. The key is specialization like I talk about in this walk through series.
What's the Europe War? It is the same as the Independence Win?
@@lucasdamotta2931 War against Europe* War of Independence*...
At this point I imagine the version of the game I had was bug, since I try all approaches you could imagine to no success and the biggest fail of this version is having no ability to stack units since 100 dragons can lose to a single one, also Europe units win battles 2/3 so you need to surpass their size by a huge margin. I end-up just using all kind of cheats and it was clear how bad the balance was on the version I was playing. Hoping in the future they make a similar game with production and trading been as important as keeping a healthy army to help expand into new territories without destroy Indian locals entirely but keep them as a friendly thing around. This game didn't show to have a good level of automatization but you have the option to do so once you learn how to config trade routes and make the best out of trading carts.
I played 1st edition of colonization. Years, years ago🙊🙉🙈
damn i remember playing this years ago...
nice. But what means that blue circle for units?
We played this for history in my class and i have no idea how to use this game
Actually you can fight a defensive war but you got take your stand in a inner continent fortified city, never on the coast because their navy will simply raze your defense bonus to the ground on the blink of an eye.
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Why do you have so much gold at the start of the game?
How do I make a pioneer? The online guides have been vague.
You can pick up any settler, or even a free colonist and hence your have tools stocked in your city warehouse, you can turn the settler into a pioneer by clicking on him and choosing a profession.
is this like mod?
No, its a stand alone game, its built on the same engine used for civ 4.
Stoy-veh-sant and Min-you-et.
I think a good beginner guide would have explained the interface first...
ceux ki sont de cje vs etes ben fif
LOL Peter "Stoy-vessent"...It was "STY-VISS-INT" with the emphasis on the first syllable. Just FYI.
The UI in this game is horrifying; whoever designed it should never work in the gaming industry again.
its 2005 game you donkey
I am not Bob Dylan what’s that got to do with a bag of chips? We had amazing UI design even in the 90’s
Peter st-eye-ve-sant
Man the only one I hated coz I did not know what to do🙄
Sadly they haven't made Colonization in Civ 5 hexagonal style. I'm sure mostly because of political correctness.
STY-vuh-sent