Sparta on Hard

[jo the greek]

Hi i am platying with Spartai on hard but i face some difficulties . And i need some help and advicing

my Cities dont develop
my Cities do not trade i just trade with athens
Actually conquering cities does not offer me really any advantage but more cities to protect meaning more costs.


Is there something wrong?

[KAM 2150]

In order to trade you have to conquer Athens. CA made it like this. Your capital needs to have land conection with port city.

[jo the greek]

I have captured other port cities no trade

[dapony]

Only land connection from Sparta goes through Athens: No Athens, no trade.
This is the reason I don't like not being able to manually change my capital.

[Post Hoc]

If you don't want to declare war on Athens you must let Sparta fall while you have another city, then you can trade and retake it.

[TheOrangeProject]

Some of the best advice i have ever read about growth and such.

First build up your towns as much as you can at your current state. Then go for conquering. Otherwise you will be able to keep it up.

[Summary]

Grow big grow big and then ask Athens to join your confederation. You will have won Athens without need to wage war

[JObadiah]

You can also hope someone else kicks the noodles out of Athens' armies and confederate them before they take the city itself.

[plantagenet_king]

I found this problem no solution?

[KAM 2150]

What problem? No trade? Then conquer Athens. Without Athens you could have 3//4 of all ports in game conquered and still have 0 trade.

[Summary]

@ KAM 2150, rolf Rollo is awesome!