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Reply to Rush to Colonise Not the best strategy? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

It's the same old dilemma in all these games. It's always a crap shoot. But I choose to expand quickly and stablize afterwards. If you do not, the AI will grab the good planets and you will have to fight for them. It's not actually that bad to planet grab: just build a couple of military ships so they see you compare to them militarily and they will leave you be at the outset.