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Monarch Student Prime is up to the twenties now! Our leader for number 20? Itss KHANNNNNNNNNN:
Genghis Khan is a prolific warmongerer. His trait set isn't spectacular, in fact by most polls he should be one of the weakest leaders. Luckily he has one of the best, if not THE best UU/UB combo in the game.
His UU is the Keshik:
A horse archer that ignores terrain movement costs and that comes with a free first strike. Easily top 5 material in my eyes. Combine this with a ger and get ready for some beatdowns. Let's see if the map host gave us horses though.
His UB is the Ger:
A stable replacement that provide two more experience points than a stable. Ridiculous paired with the keshik. This provides 6 exp keshiks (2 promos) out of the gates, leading to some awesome beatdown potential.
The start:
Ewww. Unless there is a magic irrigated corn in the fog, food is lacking. We do have marble though, allowing for a possible Oracle/Aesthetics line wonders. Unfortunately it looks like there are not going to be horses in the BFC. What a shame
Fractal map this time
Huts and Events are OFF, add events in the custom scenario if you wish. (just make sure to cover the top part with your hand so you don't see the AIs)
And a cut-and-paste from Meatbuster's Monarch Student games:
Save the file and place it in your Documents/BTS/Saves/WorldBuilder folder. Then unzip it into your Documents/BTS/Saves/WorldBuilder folder. Then use Playing a scenario to play your desired level. Or use custom scenario if you want to remove huts and/or events.
Recommended Checkpoints:
*1000BC or 1AD
*500AD
*1000AD or Liberalism
*Victory!
Please remember to put the journals of your adventures inside spoiler tags.
For Monarch+ players please try to add archery back to the barbs in WB. If you don't, AIs will capture cities with archers very early in the game, which is no fun. If you prefer easymode barbs, that's fine too, just don't go wondering why an AI captured a barb city in the very early BCs!
Thanks go to TMIT for making an excellent map creation guide and to mjg5591 for getting this series back on track!
And finally, the save!
Genghis Khan is a prolific warmongerer. His trait set isn't spectacular, in fact by most polls he should be one of the weakest leaders. Luckily he has one of the best, if not THE best UU/UB combo in the game.
His UU is the Keshik:
A horse archer that ignores terrain movement costs and that comes with a free first strike. Easily top 5 material in my eyes. Combine this with a ger and get ready for some beatdowns. Let's see if the map host gave us horses though.
His UB is the Ger:
A stable replacement that provide two more experience points than a stable. Ridiculous paired with the keshik. This provides 6 exp keshiks (2 promos) out of the gates, leading to some awesome beatdown potential.
The start:
Ewww. Unless there is a magic irrigated corn in the fog, food is lacking. We do have marble though, allowing for a possible Oracle/Aesthetics line wonders. Unfortunately it looks like there are not going to be horses in the BFC. What a shame
Fractal map this time
Huts and Events are OFF, add events in the custom scenario if you wish. (just make sure to cover the top part with your hand so you don't see the AIs
)And a cut-and-paste from Meatbuster's Monarch Student games:
Save the file and place it in your Documents/BTS/Saves/WorldBuilder folder. Then unzip it into your Documents/BTS/Saves/WorldBuilder folder. Then use Playing a scenario to play your desired level. Or use custom scenario if you want to remove huts and/or events.
Recommended Checkpoints:
*1000BC or 1AD
*500AD
*1000AD or Liberalism
*Victory!
Please remember to put the journals of your adventures inside spoiler tags.
For Monarch+ players please try to add archery back to the barbs in WB. If you don't, AIs will capture cities with archers very early in the game, which is no fun. If you prefer easymode barbs, that's fine too, just don't go wondering why an AI captured a barb city in the very early BCs!
Thanks go to TMIT for making an excellent map creation guide and to mjg5591 for getting this series back on track!
And finally, the save!
Although this may seem bad, I took out 2 AIs. This means only 3 AIs were left. Monty was isolated on his own huge island, and Hammy + Ram shared an island. Basically, there was no tech trading going on the entire game pre- optics. I lots lib by two turns, I bet you won't guess to who:
Yes, the isolated monty. Plan from here is UN. Hammy and Ram can be befriended easily enough by OR + NSR + Bureau, and I still may be able to get Huayna's vote through HR.
capital) archery > mysticism > writing. I was intending to go HBR after archery but, like you, I noticed the economy was crashing big time (no pun intended! 
) even though I razed both of Justinian’s cities en route to his capital, so changed the plan to mysticism (to pop borders) > writing > HBR. I’m now hoping that HAs will be enough to take down Sury and that a few science specialists will keep the economy afloat...fingers crossed!
The spoiler is to 780AD (at monarch / normal) where a little help would be appreciated. 
as more keshiks were massed. I also got very lucky en route when gems popped in one of my cities to increase 
) As a result, my questions for the good folk here are threefold: (a) what to research next after CoL (b) what to do with my second GG and (c) how to plot the demise of HC? 
city. It’s just that being coastal, I may want to keep Constantinople producing a navy rather than land based troops. As far as HC is concerned, my thoughts at this point are cuirassiers or cavalry. However, whilst I have some experience with the latter, I have zilch with cuirassiers (which is why I picked this save to play – maybe I’ll get to use them after all.) What do the good folk here think...onto liberalism > nationalism after a detour via literature – assuming the economy can recover in time?
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