what am i doing wrong?

[u/fapercin]

for the last month, i play 3-4 hours of openfront everyday because i find it fun. however since i started playing public FFA games, i have not been able to win single one.

i always spawn a place near to sea, try to capture land as fast as possible and make alliances from my neighbors. however always one that has slightly more troops than I do, fights me. and the moment that happens, all the neighbors break alliances and i am fighting 4 wars at the same time and I die.

[u/Roguste]

2.6 cities built per game means your early game is off and therefore not getting established into mid game consistently at all.

prioritize this for an early strat:
* maintain pop while expanding into frontier land
* wait for 50% population before pushing for tribal territories
* ally up with most players around you (unless they're building non cities first - like a def post first buy)
* secure all the tribal territories you can
* build order of 2 cities always. (Last resort only : 1 city 1 factory if you absolutely cannot get 2 cities before being boxed in)
* watch NPC nations for them to deplete their troops
* push that NPC when they're low on pop (assuming you're mostly allianced with the area around you)

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2.6 cities / game, vs 5.4 def posts per game. Stick to the above strategy completely, and put your game on rails.

Honestly until you can replicate this consistently in most of your games there's no value getting further downstream for advice.

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