Lord of Ultima: Food Management Strategy V2

A while back, I wrote a post about Food Management in Lord of Ultima. Essentially, I advocated putting food production into most of your cities. Such a strategy did make your cities less effective on an individual basis, but it saved a lot of time as you would have to manually ship food otherwise.  However, the time you do save, made you more effective on the overall basis.

This browser based game has now changed due to the advent of the Trade Minister. The Trade Minister allows automatic shipment of food (and other resources) to your cities. Thus, there is no need any more to put food production in any cities bar your food resource cities. Just ship the food in. This means your other cities will now become more effective. For example, you can have bigger troop strengths in those castles.

Here is how I have my food supply chain set up now:
Food Resource Cities--->Warehouses-->Military Cities

If you have not bought the Trade Minister yet, I would suggest doing so. It is pretty much game changing.

• Lord of Ultima is an online web browser based strategy game. More information can be found at my Lord of Ultima Coverage page.
• If you wish to jump straight in, you can sign up at http://www.lordofultima.com/en/ref/2300431315.
• As best described by the creators of the game:
  "Lord of Ultima is EA’s first game in the free Strategy MMO genre and is completely playable in a web browser. Developed by EA’s Phenomic studio, the game’s creator Volker Wertich (the genius behind strategy classics such as the Settlers) takes this genre to the next level. Lord of Ultima features deep strategic gameplay and multiple social features including an advanced trading system, alliance features, online chat, and forums. At launch it will be available in English and German language.
  
  
  Set in the legendary Ultima universe, the game takes you to the new world of Caledonia, formed from the remains of Sosaria which was shattered into countless islands. You start your journey with a humble village which you grow over time into a mighty and prosperous capital. On your path to glory you will have to expand your power by creating additional cities, exploring new continents and forging a vast empire. You must master the art of diplomacy and trade as well as the military activities of spying, plundering, attacking and sieging enemy cities to finally become the mighty and feared Lord of Ultima."