Cannons are really good for settlement attacks! What I like to do is settle my easternmost settlement next to a forest hill, spend the game stacking tools and production to build as many cannons as possible. The idea is that when the expeditionary forces come, I intentionally let them take the city. I will have my forces camp out on that forest hill and reinforced with some soldiers promoted with ranger/mountaineer. Then once the expeditionary forces are in the settlement, I use my cannons to attack the settlement with the settlement attack bonus, which gives a victory most of the time, and I can replenish with newly produced cannons as needed. Every turn I will take back the city, and the AI will reconquer it putting a bunch of troops there ready for my cannons to massacre them again. Occasionally the enemy slips through, but I can usually deal with them by forcing them to attack amphibiously or into defensive terrain
I beat the game quite easily on the medium difficulty with England 1st leader. Enemy just attacked two of my cities at shore and never really got past them. Stacked up everything there and gained insane amounts of experience. Never did warfare with natives, took one town from the dutch. Was able to trade huge amounts of goods and bought a ton of cannons, produced loads of guns and horses. Key focus was getting growth and specialization right. Helps with 4 expert fishermen with two fish within range as first city...new towns after 2nd city were built quick with specialization citizens (bought with trade) premade to kick start the new towns Now off to next difficulty
Hey man just wanted to say your playthrough of this game a few years back has been a great reference for me. I got this game as part of a civilization humble bundle and watching your walkthrough was what helped me finally win after losing the game 10 times in a row.
I haven't attempted to have a lot of cities. I usually stop at 3 - 4. I know its not a tip but I noticed that you had a lot of cities when you were giving the tips.
I tend to play the same way, focusing on building my first few cities really tall rather than going super wide. Often times I’ll find I only have 2 cities but both of those cities might have double digit populations due to how I heavily farm for specialized labor
Just finished this game with revolutionary difficulty....tiny island and 20 plus opponent....fcking hard actually to beat....ended up using all tricks i can get
I've never seen one of your videos before, but I enjoyed this one. It was really well done! I would argue that although liberty bells make your production better, it does make the king like you less and consequently raise the prices much faster, which can actually be negative for your economy since overall percentages are greater than numbers. That being said, I still have never beaten this game, the war with the king is INSANELY difficult, even on the easiest difficulty.
The most busted tip I can give you: Scout the map with 2+ seasoned scouts, contact every village and find every ancient ruin. You can use ships to trade with coastal native villages, who will give you absolutely busted amounts of money for guns and whatever good they require. Per native tribe you can get 6000-10000 gold this way using only a merchantman/caravel, especially if they are near Europe-access seas, this will slingshot your economy into overdrive early.
Hey, I’ve been watching your Pokémon videos for a while, but I’ve recently started playing Civ 4 colonisation more recently and bumped into this coincidentally. Thanks for the guide, would you have any plan of making a campaign series?
Yeah! I actually already did a full Let's Play of this game many years ago where I beat the game as Spain, but I do plan to revisit it for streams sometime. I wanna show everyone the "We the People" mod, since it's basically what the game would be like if it had DLC. Honestly "We the People" is just what the game should have been in the first place
@@MahDryBread Sounds cool! I havent heard of the MOD tbh but it sounds interesting. Ive played alot of civ4 but not much Colonialization so its nice to get into something different :)
@@nice_toes_xx I'm legit about to stream some Colonization on Twitch in less than an hour, if you wanna check it out! It's all going up on UA-cam sometime after, likely as unlisted videos that are viewable in a playlist: www.twitch.tv/mahdrybread
Question; can Natives funds dry up & expire. Question: If this happens is it worth gifting natives funds to keep the King from demanding Your funds to fund his Forces - he will later use to fight your independance?
8. The exploit: During independence war, the king can't add expeditionary forces. King's expeditionary forces also need one unit to occupy a town. So if you are not strong enough to fight them head to head, consider to spawn towns with one population as many as you can. Expeditionary forces will then have to spend their units occupying those towns. After all expeditionary forces units are tied down occupying those towns, you can start build up your forces in peace, and then gang up one occupied town after another, one town at a time. Note: Make sure those spawned towns side with independence faction, especially the one where you plan to rally on.
I have completed the game multiple times with ease. I would send my dragoons to all other foreign colonies to jeopardise their productivity and seize all founding fathers. I don't skip any of them. Local natives would pay high price for manufactured products. Tool and manufactured goods give the highest profit margin especially in early game. Trade silver and rum in Europe.
This game is so hard, out of nowhere, the natives will tack me an I never recover. I play in hard dificultes like governor and Revolucionary, but the diplomatic steam is broken, they will hate me for absolutily no reason.
This is the biggest bone of contention I have with this game. I have the game, I somehow remember being able to educate veteran soldiers in the exact way described here, but everytime I go back to the game, the game says no. I know Sid Meier's original game from 1994, you definitely could, I kind of remember you could in this one, but in every game I tried it just doesn't work.
When do I start with the liberty bells, the king has like 100 soldiers 80 dragons 50 artillery and 30 warships. I am playing in marathon, it's only the year 1627. His army just keeps getting bigger. How the fuck am I gonna win this.
If you have a strong navy, it is possible to sink the King's ship with its army in it. If you can sink all the ships, it is an immediate victory even if there were tons of soldiers still waiting in Europe to attack you. When the King's regular make landing, try to let them land onto a forested area and fight them in the terrain instead of fighting them in the colony. Your soldiers have bonus fighting in terrain. Just prepare enough troops to eliminate all the landed troops in one turn and don't give them a chance to attack you.
I never succeeded in this game but I think the point is to fight them inland and counterattack on terrain with appropriate bonuses. Don't try to hold the coastal cities and avoid fighting in cities in general. Have powerful unit factories away from the shore and counterattack when the king spreads forces.
@@kosiak10851 oh in the end I ended up playing the We The People mod. It's a lot of fun I recommend it a lot. Although I struggle too much to make liberty bells
I can't really make a tips and tricks video for a game that's not even close to finishing development and hasn't had any balancing done yet. Any tip I make would have a high chance of being useless by the time the game is done.
This was uploaded in 2018? I'm not the only one still playing this game? Good to know!
Still playing, this game is addictive. Great managing experience.
I just started playing it.
I still play this game but I'm bad at it lol
Me and my brother still play each other
There are more people still playing that.
Cannons are really good for settlement attacks! What I like to do is settle my easternmost settlement next to a forest hill, spend the game stacking tools and production to build as many cannons as possible. The idea is that when the expeditionary forces come, I intentionally let them take the city. I will have my forces camp out on that forest hill and reinforced with some soldiers promoted with ranger/mountaineer. Then once the expeditionary forces are in the settlement, I use my cannons to attack the settlement with the settlement attack bonus, which gives a victory most of the time, and I can replenish with newly produced cannons as needed. Every turn I will take back the city, and the AI will reconquer it putting a bunch of troops there ready for my cannons to massacre them again. Occasionally the enemy slips through, but I can usually deal with them by forcing them to attack amphibiously or into defensive terrain
I beat the game quite easily on the medium difficulty with England 1st leader. Enemy just attacked two of my cities at shore and never really got past them. Stacked up everything there and gained insane amounts of experience. Never did warfare with natives, took one town from the dutch.
Was able to trade huge amounts of goods and bought a ton of cannons, produced loads of guns and horses.
Key focus was getting growth and specialization right. Helps with 4 expert fishermen with two fish within range as first city...new towns after 2nd city were built quick with specialization citizens (bought with trade) premade to kick start the new towns
Now off to next difficulty
This game always frustrates me by turn 185 but I keep going back to it starting a new game... not good for my blood pressure...
Hey man just wanted to say your playthrough of this game a few years back has been a great reference for me. I got this game as part of a civilization humble bundle and watching your walkthrough was what helped me finally win after losing the game 10 times in a row.
I haven't attempted to have a lot of cities. I usually stop at 3 - 4. I know its not a tip but I noticed that you had a lot of cities when you were giving the tips.
Lots of cities can help as long as your bell production is good in all of them. Having a few cities can work though!
I tend to play the same way, focusing on building my first few cities really tall rather than going super wide. Often times I’ll find I only have 2 cities but both of those cities might have double digit populations due to how I heavily farm for specialized labor
Just finished this game with revolutionary difficulty....tiny island and 20 plus opponent....fcking hard actually to beat....ended up using all tricks i can get
I've never seen one of your videos before, but I enjoyed this one. It was really well done! I would argue that although liberty bells make your production better, it does make the king like you less and consequently raise the prices much faster, which can actually be negative for your economy since overall percentages are greater than numbers. That being said, I still have never beaten this game, the war with the king is INSANELY difficult, even on the easiest difficulty.
Liberty bells give you a bonus to damage against the King's Army, it's just another reason why it's so important. I'm happy you like the video!
Bells alarm the king and make its army bigger. Start producing bells in late game!
I have an exploit to deal with that (see my other comment).
I played the original colonization before playing it in Civ4. The natives in Civ4 are way more peaceful than the original. LOL
The most busted tip I can give you: Scout the map with 2+ seasoned scouts, contact every village and find every ancient ruin. You can use ships to trade with coastal native villages, who will give you absolutely busted amounts of money for guns and whatever good they require. Per native tribe you can get 6000-10000 gold this way using only a merchantman/caravel, especially if they are near Europe-access seas, this will slingshot your economy into overdrive early.
Thanks for this!
Hey, I’ve been watching your Pokémon videos for a while, but I’ve recently started playing Civ 4 colonisation more recently and bumped into this coincidentally.
Thanks for the guide, would you have any plan of making a campaign series?
Yeah! I actually already did a full Let's Play of this game many years ago where I beat the game as Spain, but I do plan to revisit it for streams sometime. I wanna show everyone the "We the People" mod, since it's basically what the game would be like if it had DLC.
Honestly "We the People" is just what the game should have been in the first place
@@MahDryBread Sounds cool! I havent heard of the MOD tbh but it sounds interesting. Ive played alot of civ4 but not much Colonialization so its nice to get into something different :)
Try colonization on the slowest game speed some time. It sounds daunting and a lot of things change, but it ends up being super fun and rewarding
@@MahDryBread Thanks for the tip, I havent tried on marathon yet but I tried a large map with epic and am enjoying it more than standard :)
@@nice_toes_xx I'm legit about to stream some Colonization on Twitch in less than an hour, if you wanna check it out! It's all going up on UA-cam sometime after, likely as unlisted videos that are viewable in a playlist: www.twitch.tv/mahdrybread
Question; can Natives funds dry up & expire. Question: If this happens is it worth gifting natives funds to keep the King from demanding Your funds to fund his Forces - he will later use to fight your independance?
8. The exploit: During independence war, the king can't add expeditionary forces. King's expeditionary forces also need one unit to occupy a town. So if you are not strong enough to fight them head to head, consider to spawn towns with one population as many as you can. Expeditionary forces will then have to spend their units occupying those towns. After all expeditionary forces units are tied down occupying those towns, you can start build up your forces in peace, and then gang up one occupied town after another, one town at a time. Note: Make sure those spawned towns side with independence faction, especially the one where you plan to rally on.
I have completed the game multiple times with ease. I would send my dragoons to all other foreign colonies to jeopardise their productivity and seize all founding fathers. I don't skip any of them. Local natives would pay high price for manufactured products. Tool and manufactured goods give the highest profit margin especially in early game. Trade silver and rum in Europe.
This game is so hard, out of nowhere, the natives will tack me an I never recover. I play in hard dificultes like governor and Revolucionary, but the diplomatic steam is broken, they will hate me for absolutily no reason.
tanks a lot, hi from austria, i think how i can get the veterans, now the fog is a way thanks again
Too bad in the original game you cannot educate veteran soldiers. So sharing the mod you use to win might be appropriate.
You can, just have a veteran soldier join the settlement (you might need a college not a schoolhouse for it to work).
Yes, another way is to get George Washington. You just need to win 1 battle to promote.
This is the biggest bone of contention I have with this game. I have the game, I somehow remember being able to educate veteran soldiers in the exact way described here, but everytime I go back to the game, the game says no. I know Sid Meier's original game from 1994, you definitely could, I kind of remember you could in this one, but in every game I tried it just doesn't work.
When do I start with the liberty bells, the king has like 100 soldiers 80 dragons 50 artillery and 30 warships. I am playing in marathon, it's only the year 1627. His army just keeps getting bigger. How the fuck am I gonna win this.
If you have a strong navy, it is possible to sink the King's ship with its army in it. If you can sink all the ships, it is an immediate victory even if there were tons of soldiers still waiting in Europe to attack you. When the King's regular make landing, try to let them land onto a forested area and fight them in the terrain instead of fighting them in the colony. Your soldiers have bonus fighting in terrain. Just prepare enough troops to eliminate all the landed troops in one turn and don't give them a chance to attack you.
I never succeeded in this game but I think the point is to fight them inland and counterattack on terrain with appropriate bonuses. Don't try to hold the coastal cities and avoid fighting in cities in general. Have powerful unit factories away from the shore and counterattack when the king spreads forces.
@@kosiak10851 oh in the end I ended up playing the We The People mod. It's a lot of fun I recommend it a lot. Although I struggle too much to make liberty bells
Still waiting for guild 3 tips and tricks.
I can't really make a tips and tricks video for a game that's not even close to finishing development and hasn't had any balancing done yet. Any tip I make would have a high chance of being useless by the time the game is done.
@@MahDryBread Try out the We The People mod!
Where isn't this guy, Jesus.
He’s playing without mods 🤮
Most people probably don't know about the mods so I figured I'd use the base version. I do agree though that some of the mods make it WAY better!