How do you increase your borders?

[Robin Hood of Sherwood]

I keep getting wiped out because the stone I need or wood is outside of the border.  Need to know how to expand the borders. Towers do not do it so how?

[sphyrth]

Assuming that you're already in Town Phase and the territory doesn't cover it, there's a technique called Territory Crawl. One way to do that is to keep building houses on the edge of your territory in the direction where the stones are.

[Robin Hood of Sherwood]

Thank you.

[Freagarach]

The most efficient way of expanding is by building a civic center, though. That will give you large amount of extra territory. So you can build a civic center close to your beloved stone deposit. That has an extra advantage that your citizens can hide inside the civic centre in case of a raid.

The civic center can only be build in the city phase. Some civilisations can build a military colony in the town phase, however, which is a "smaller" version of the civic center, with less territory influence.

Edited August 23, 2019 by Freagarach
Me playing too little.

[Sundiata]

3 hours ago, Freagarach said:

The civic center can only be build in the city phase.

Civic Centers can be built in the town phase by all civs except Ptolemies and Seleucids, who have military colonies instead, also available in town phase. 

[asterix]

 

8 hours ago, Robin Hood of Sherwood said:

I keep getting wiped out because the stone I need or wood is outside of the border.  Need to know how to expand the borders. Towers do not do it so how?