Slashninja1467
Chieftain
- Joined
- May 31, 2007
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- 56
I have just made the transition from Prince/Monarch and I've been finding it hard to get this victory. I have never gotten it before and tried three games so far on the level trying to get one. I tried Gandhi for both attempts because I found him to be very well suited to Cultural Victory.
In my first game, I didn't realize that there was a much greater maintenence penalty than that on Prince. It was a fractal, huge map and I had Ramses, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar on my island. Ramses was close and had built Stonehenge and had marble next to his capital. I thought, Sure why not and axe rushed all his cities and made the mistake of capturing all of them and keeping them. By now I was at 10% science barely keeping research up with scientist specialists. I started building libraries in all my cities and once i was able to get code of laws, built courthouses in all of them too. By now, Julius was double my power graph and it was wayy too late to start any cultural victory. Not to mention I was outteched and everyone took all the religions and wonders.
Next game, another fractal, I decided against warring and did the Oracle/MC/Pyramid gambit along with a peaceful REX. I nabbed 3 great engineers and focused the rest of my GPP on Artists (Kept up research as well becuz of Representation). I whipped courthouses blah blah blah, nabbed most wonders (including the Great Wall) , and maintained a REX/Builder strategy. Farmed and mined three cities which i employed artists in and switched to Caste System. Hell, I had a tech lead! Thought the game would go great and then i get attacked by Ragnar. No big deal, though he outnumbers me 2 to 1. His 3 promotion horse archers and swords are no match for my maceman. Bribe for peace, then Julius on my eastern side declared war on me. Nothing I can do against his 20-30 praetorians against my what? 5 maceman?
How do u post saves? I have a save before investing into Artist points and would gladly show to board members.
I need some help. Whenever I attempt to maintain my cost penalties and build wonders, I neglect my military. When I focus on my military, I lose REX, help?
BTW, i'm not using Bhruics. If someone could give me a step-by-step process on how to install it. The ReadMe is just way to vague.
In my first game, I didn't realize that there was a much greater maintenence penalty than that on Prince. It was a fractal, huge map and I had Ramses, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar on my island. Ramses was close and had built Stonehenge and had marble next to his capital. I thought, Sure why not and axe rushed all his cities and made the mistake of capturing all of them and keeping them. By now I was at 10% science barely keeping research up with scientist specialists. I started building libraries in all my cities and once i was able to get code of laws, built courthouses in all of them too. By now, Julius was double my power graph and it was wayy too late to start any cultural victory. Not to mention I was outteched and everyone took all the religions and wonders.
Next game, another fractal, I decided against warring and did the Oracle/MC/Pyramid gambit along with a peaceful REX. I nabbed 3 great engineers and focused the rest of my GPP on Artists (Kept up research as well becuz of Representation). I whipped courthouses blah blah blah, nabbed most wonders (including the Great Wall) , and maintained a REX/Builder strategy. Farmed and mined three cities which i employed artists in and switched to Caste System. Hell, I had a tech lead! Thought the game would go great and then i get attacked by Ragnar. No big deal, though he outnumbers me 2 to 1. His 3 promotion horse archers and swords are no match for my maceman. Bribe for peace, then Julius on my eastern side declared war on me. Nothing I can do against his 20-30 praetorians against my what? 5 maceman?
How do u post saves? I have a save before investing into Artist points and would gladly show to board members.
I need some help. Whenever I attempt to maintain my cost penalties and build wonders, I neglect my military. When I focus on my military, I lose REX, help?
BTW, i'm not using Bhruics. If someone could give me a step-by-step process on how to install it. The ReadMe is just way to vague.