Love the game, plan to spend a lot of time mastering its intricacies. One of my first realizations is that starting on a small or medium map with fewer opponents might be better for learning game systems, especially for those (ahem) not as quick as we used to be.

Thanks - I've played for a few hours and really enjoy the game - a good mix of balance and complexity to keep things interesting. I know there are complaints about combat but no one plays Paradox games for tactical combat.

Sleeping on Local Reforms. Really powerful cultural power early on that can give you a significant science lead

Such a great video. Please do more! Subscribed BTW I'm a complete noob in 4X but was always interested

Thank you for sharing your insight.

Your videos are very informative and well made. Thanks for the infotainment. I disagree about the game not being fun if you aren’t leading the ages though, because of how my first game of full release is going. I intended to play tall and go for an engineering national spirit, but I decided to start on Master difficulty. Which is high enough a couple Ai were ahead of me in knowledge despite focusing it. When I got to Bronze Age both engineering ones already take. Sure I could have still taken one but I noticed warriors was not and I liked that one in the demo. So I turned my few but well developed regions into a military machine and embraced the killing once again. Slaughtered barbs in mass, sacked a couple nation states and took one into my empire. I was also back filling useful techs instead of racing for the next ages at that point. By end of 2nd age I had 10 Spartans, several leaders, and a collection of other units. During this time my neighbors, Great Britain, entranced their imperialistic nature and snapped up all the other near by city states. And thus a new plan was born. I spent the next age and a half preparing my armies. Took the Khan NS, and the turn I got 5 units per army unlocked declared war. I hit them of four armies of Spartans, cross women, and leaders (one of which was the Khan) and one army of horse archers. In the first two turns of the war I captured all of their outlying cities. Then all my armies converged on their homeland and best regions. With a few turns it was over and I know oversee 2/3 of the cities on my continent. That and building all the knowledge buildings has put me back in the race for controlling the next age, and I already have enough social fabric to unlock age of alchemy. I’m planning to spend the next age or two building up my new empire. Although France and Russia are becoming annoying with their constant request I help them fight the other. Might just conquer them both and own the whole continent for good measure.

Thanks for the Advice. I'm trying to get into the game but it appears to go so damn fast for a 4X game Quick question what would you rather do. Research every technology before advancing or is having the lead on the next era more important?

Currently installing game, I play alot of hoi4 it gets boring some times so very excited to try this game

Hi jumbo, great video! I would like to know your opinion about the IA: in this type of game, the IA have problems to use the game mechanichs and become insignificant in the late game. Is the millennia IA good enough to make the game funny unti the end?

Well, that was helpfull. I think I see where I went wrong and ended up in the age of plagues. I did not have enough tiles to create the midden. I should have created a town earlier. I did not ensure I had infuence coming in.

Can you talk about chaos? i always start generating (and dont know why? maybe because is try to kill barbarians? how can i decrese it? City-s write +2 on Region

After all these videos bashing on one of their branch game, paradox still trusts you on doing their sponsorship, truly gigachad move

How do you deal with the barbarians? I find this game has a lot and they're very aggressive. My latest game I ended up being war decced by both my neighbouring civs because I was just squished down by the barbs. I have a similar issue with Civ6 and similar games - are you supposed to just ignore making improvements or buildings for the first like dozen turns and just make units??

can press alt and some other key and shows each tile., anyone notice when u get to far long game starts to lag like crazy with 8 AI and then just locks up and crashes

1. Do you think it too easy to trigger the Age of Blood? 2. Have you ever had to deal with a Capital Attack? I had to bail on my first trial game because I had a Capital Attack event that I just could not find a way to deal with, meaning I was stuck on that turn forever.

When the map has got fluro colours and swiftly thang effects, you know the kiddies have had a fun time designing crap.

Game looks interesting but it should either be labeled as early access or half the price with it's lack of multiplayer and content like nukes which is usually a standard in this type of 4X game being relegated to DLC that is almost a year off

I can't move units with the keyboard. Do you need a mouse to play?

WAY TOO MUCH early game fighting. There is no choice but to build military and fight. This needs to have some kind of balance to it. In CIV you can go a peaceful route if you choose. In millennia you have no choice. I hate when a 4x forces you into the Exploration X. Its a 4X for a reason. If I choose to go the other routes they should be viable for gameplay and the only thing that should stop me is if someone is way overpowered. I'm playing with AI on easy but it's the barbs that are so OP in this game.

Why do you talk like that?

I play like a pro. I asked for a refund after 2 hours of play.

Dead game

thank you thank you thank you

Sells us the game st 40 bucks while locking the actual full game almost a year out through day one dlc pre purchase... paradox needs to go out of business