Some questions to all, to tailor the game to taste, what do you like about the game? Is there something that stands out that makes you want to play just one more turn? What don't you like? Do you have a starting preference? An area or tribe? Do you want to play majors or minors? Cooperate or cutthroat? Number of days between turns? I know everyone is busy, so, every three days? Four? More?
Some random observations:
* CDR is a bitch! It's the ratio between your Culture produced against your Decadence produced. Many buildings produce Culture, not all of which are the purple Science and Culture buildings. Look at each building carefully before choosing. Same goes for how much Decadence you purposely take on from buildings.
* It behooves you to concentrate early on Food and Military buildings. Food to grow your population and Military to expand. Make no mistake, this game is very much about expansion while balancing Decadence and taking Objectives and growing your economy along with your territory.
* Making Provinces should also be a priority. It reduces Decadence gain slightly and allows all the Regions in that Province to pool their resources together.
* You can move Citizens and Slaves in your Region window to boost Food, Infrastructure, Gold, or Culture.
* Check your Nation screen frequently. It shows your current Gov't, CDR, Ruler, Objectives, and a wealth of other info.
* Force composition along with Leader and Experienced troops, as well as the terrain you are attacking, go a long way towards winning. Check the Frontage of a terrain you are attacking first to know approximately which units will be in the front lines.
* Watch the battles when you have them. You'll get a better understanding of what wins that way.
* I find that once you make a Province, focusing on one or two Regions buildings is better than picking a building in each Region and waiting an inordinate amount of time for it to be built. Spreading the building around to all the Regions in turn will grow your empire quicker. Imo.
Anyways, it's late. I hope this helps. If you have any questions, I'd be glad to answer them if I can. We'll wait another day or two to see if anyone else joins. We'll start maybe Friday night or Saturday morning. I believe I have both of you as Steam friends. I'll make a group chat and ping you when the game is made.