In order to research beast hunters or the wool farm you need a lot of diplomacy.which you won't have from your city.Once you have met your axe quota, replace them with horns, and once horns are done, replace with wool. So if you need 300 axes and 57 mead and you reach your mead quota with 150 axes to go, delete the mead brewery and build axe smiths.

The point is, don't delete any axe smiths or mead breweries until your quota is full.

Once you have your hut, shrine, CG factory set up I would suggest building all of your axes (you should already have some smiths built and all of your mead together (you should already have 1 or 2 mead built).

Phase 4: Acquiring all Cultural Goods and Researching

Once huts are researched purchase remaining expansions with the CG of your choice.

If along the way you pick up a couple expansions for mead, no big deal, the time hit shouldn't hurt too much.

After making a mead brewery, focus your CGs on researching huts.

I think you can get 4 expansions for under 20 axes.

After shrines are acquired, buy at least 3-4 expansions with axes to make room for more shrines and eventually some mead breweries.If you can squeeze 2 it can help you get expansions sooner. Your first layout should basically be enough houses to make an axe smith or 2. This should be the first thing you spend axes on since shrines will be your main source of Copper income. This is the first research and it always costs 10 axes.(Don't rush to make 50 horns when you are still building axes). Do not intentionally go for a quest, simply let it complete itself when it gets done. You are going to be ignoring quests with this strategy.This is extremely important to do as it will help you know when to begin and end production of each CG.

Include the CG cost of every single bit of research in the embassy advancements tab.

The building ratio goal here is 6 hut:11 shrine:4 axe/beast and 5 hut:11 shrine:3 mead/wool (pictured at the bottom).

Use only an 8/8/4 hr rotation on all buildings.

Use only Huts, Shrines, and CG buildings.

7 or 8 expansions (purchased with axes or mead).

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