Reason is each new tech gives you buildings that are more efficient with your space. Since most people have a job, I would run 2 4 hour productions during work, reset it during lunch, and then at night if you have more time to play you can do some 1 hr productions to stock up.Ĥ) I normally unlock 8 expansions 3 with axes, 2 with mead, 2 with horns, and 1 with wool.ĥ) Evaluate what goods are needed for the next tech and only produce those. If you don't hit a 4X bonus on your first productions, sell one of the axesmiths, unlock shrines, no expansions, and run only 1 axesmith with 2 shrines running.ģ) Other commentors are right, you have to run 4 hr productions or less in order to hit the time limit. Take out roads and cram shacks together to do this.Ģ) If one of your first two production runs hit a 4X bonus, keep both axes smiths, unlock shrines and buy two expansions and plant 2 or 3 shrines. I'm using the Runes to replace some SoKs.I finished all 15 Viking settlements within time, here's my guidelines on how to do it:ġ) Need to plant two axe smiths at the beginning. The 2nd building, the Timeless Dojo, is also less interesting (IMHO) than the Viking’s Runestone. Of course, others might find that great it just doesn’t work for me. Shinto replaces it with a supply boost, which isn't as useful to my needs.
Since you can do both (but not at same time) alternating between Vikings and Japan can break up the tedium a bit compared to doing 15 Viking settlements in a row.īut.I'm not as enthused about the Shinto Temple, compared to the Yggdrasil, since the lvl 10 Yggy has that great 30% attack boost. There seem to be more impediments, however, so the city layout is more challenging, which also provides more opportunity to be strategic in how and when you place buildings. It seems to have a little more flexibility in designing the city (e.g the torii gates can be placed either 1x3 or 3x1), The addition of the Merchant makes it more interesting as well, as it can provide a way to buy expansions earlier on. Playing the Japanese settlement on Beta, and find it a bit faster paced than Vikings.