This strategy focuses on building cities and buying development cards, and lends itself towards getting the largest army card.
The second resource-based strategy is the “Ore / Wheat” Strategy. This strategy focuses on building cities and buying development cards, and lends itself towards getting the largest army card. By building cities as early as possible you can increase your resource gathering, with the added bonus that your first cities will probably be on your original settlements which should be in prime locations on the board. While you can technically win with only your first two cities, the largest army, and 4 victory points, you will most likely need to expand to build at least another city or two, so you can’t avoid wood and brick entirely. Also keep in mind that cities are expensive, which make this strategy a bit more resource intensive in general, and you probably won’t be able to grow as quickly in the early game as a result.