Recent content by elohssa

lol you've been playing for a month and you're already successfully Longbowman rushing immortal AIs?

I don't really get the SE without pyramids/rep. I mean, it really doesn't take long for a cottage to reach 3/4 commerce (riverside) and once you get Monarchy you can spam even more of them. Lastly maintaining a large military in a SE is difficult, without running caste (and thus not having...

Immortal to 1200AD

@RavenousX So you managed to axe rush and take a few cities from an AI with Praets and longbows? You had catapult support I would assume?

You can share the xp around though.

Yeah it's not feasible most games. Maybe with charismatic leaders (Boudica would be best) it can be done with 1 GG and a bit of fighting, otherwise at least 2 GG + fighting.

why reload when you can wb the promotion change faster?

Julius I've never found to be aggressive. I've had him as my only neighbor once before and I had little power and he was cautious to me whole game. Never declared. Try spreading out your cities so the BFCs don't overlap much. On non-isolated starts it's not a bad tactic anyway due to better...

@duckstab Looking good. My only advice would be to settle Medina 1 tile NE. Yes you need to get a monument out to get the clam, but long term that is stronger and short term it gives you two (each way) trade routes via the river.

Immortal, conquest, 1720 AD (1 sitting , <5 hours).

That's pretty much true. With the exception of the machine-gun era (pre-tanks, pre-artillery), sticking a bunch of defensive troops in a stack in a city just doesn't work against a comparable stack (technologically + numerically) with siege.

Surely the strength of the Dutch (on water maps) is the dike? It depends on the type of water map; but on archipelago + high sea levels, a dike can give crazy bonuses to overall production in your empire (double its affect in a golden age). It's hard to give a %, but (hypothetically) a 1 tile...

Thanks. Yea nukes are a good way to go. The AI is even worse with nukes then it is with conventional military and for some reason they don't like Fission.

It's really hard to pick a winner out of Huyana, Hannibal, Darius and Willem. Willem's problem is that the Dutch are a water civ, but creative is less useful on archipelago. Incans are just super strong even without Huyana's traits. I'd say Darius is the best though as he has 2 traits that will...

"It also seems rather pointless wearing those night-vision goggles when the entire game is during the day." Haha true. Navy seals are weird.