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Chieftain
- Joined
- Oct 8, 2004
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- 12
Ok here is the situation; I've been trying to make the monarch to emperor jump but as of yet have been unsuccessful. My latest attempt I felt I had a pretty good grasp on the expansion phase, unfourtionatly I have no iron (I haven't started with iron ONCE since I moved up to emperor). Its a archipegio small map with 5 other civs. Spain my closest neighbor, they have the statue of zeus, the knights templar, iron, and recently cavalry. My army consists of hoplites and longbows. Desperate for iron I decided to launch an attack on my french neighbors over seas, just as my army was in position to move the spanish declare war.....
I try to move my forces that were down south into position to defend but they were hopelessly out of place. My front-line defenses hold for a few turns but soon the city of Phocaea falls, It was defended by 3 hoplites, it got taken out by 3 conquistadors! DAMN YOU RNG! I'm not even joking. To make matters worse the city contained a luxury and in 1010 AD my empire went into civil disorder.
After I saw this I said to myself "Oh what the %#!(*!@#&$ mother-!@$!son of a !@$%" and promptly left the game. After awhile I needed another civ fix so I decided to try and salvage this game. I lost Pergamon and Eretria before I got them to agree to a humiliating peace treaty. Leaving 4-5 hoplites in all my cities on the spanish border I moved south in hopes of getting that precious iron from france. I managed to snatch up some early victories and secured some iron, great I thought All I gotta do is build a harbour to connect it to the rest of my empire. Confident that things were turning around I ended my turn. The spanish declared war and in the first few turns destroyed my horribly outdated garrison. Knowing that bringing my troops back from france in time to stop this was mission impossible and realizing that some of my more productive cities were threatened I simply quit. It is now that I turn to the great veterans of CFC to help me. I will attach the save where things started to go downhill, when I lost my luxury city. Here is the situation on the front lines:
Is it possible to make a come back? If your wondering why I am in despotism it is because if I switched to monarchy or republic unit support killed my economy. also I don't have saltpeter either(figures).
I try to move my forces that were down south into position to defend but they were hopelessly out of place. My front-line defenses hold for a few turns but soon the city of Phocaea falls, It was defended by 3 hoplites, it got taken out by 3 conquistadors! DAMN YOU RNG! I'm not even joking. To make matters worse the city contained a luxury and in 1010 AD my empire went into civil disorder.
After I saw this I said to myself "Oh what the %#!(*!@#&$ mother-!@$!son of a !@$%" and promptly left the game. After awhile I needed another civ fix so I decided to try and salvage this game. I lost Pergamon and Eretria before I got them to agree to a humiliating peace treaty. Leaving 4-5 hoplites in all my cities on the spanish border I moved south in hopes of getting that precious iron from france. I managed to snatch up some early victories and secured some iron, great I thought All I gotta do is build a harbour to connect it to the rest of my empire. Confident that things were turning around I ended my turn. The spanish declared war and in the first few turns destroyed my horribly outdated garrison. Knowing that bringing my troops back from france in time to stop this was mission impossible and realizing that some of my more productive cities were threatened I simply quit. It is now that I turn to the great veterans of CFC to help me. I will attach the save where things started to go downhill, when I lost my luxury city. Here is the situation on the front lines:
Is it possible to make a come back? If your wondering why I am in despotism it is because if I switched to monarchy or republic unit support killed my economy. also I don't have saltpeter either(figures).