BurnBabyBurn
Warlord
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2014
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Well, I have gone through a lot of posts on here and found a lot useful and a lot useless as far as fighting the AI and wanting to win. The most helpful hints were these...
Culture/Population Growth and Social Policies. All the little cheats and loopholes for instance, Adopting Warrior Code and killing Barbs all day long doesn't really do much against the AI. Also many of such suggestions. It seems that Warfare is not very practical vs the AI. Though I have found time and time again in order to survive you need several things. Good Terrain, the Right Civilizations and at least space to go up to 4-5 Cities to begin with. Plus if you're next door to an aggressive Civ, good luck... Most with the wrong terrain and not enough room to grow with just get unit spammed. Others may be better at warfare or development/micromanagement than I am..that or Diplomacy but I have tried several suggestions that way and only managed to end up an Age behind the AI at best usually costing me the game in the long run.
All this has been previously outlined on here but I found that the only thing I can do better than the AI is outsmart it with my development choices. Liberty/Tradition mixes or one or the other to get GROWTH. Then whatever religion and happiness that can be acquired as cheap and as fast as possible and staying in the Green with Happiness constantly. Food Focus... Quick establishment of early cities if you have to buy a settler. Scouting like mad to get all the freebies and early cash from CSs/Ruins/but not before you steal a worker(just 1 from the AI CS) Then you really need get those cities growing... preferably you pick opponents like Brazil/India/even get lucky and your Primary Base is on a Peninsula(as you do not have to buy a large military early and risk losing your growth) So with luck and good starter position you can grow your cities to the largest population and the best tech in the game and reach the Atomic Age before anyone and buy a ton of units at that point and spam the AI. I find that waking up next to Napoleon no matter what, if I do not have a massive junk military he will constantly DOW me if I am a certain distance from him and he does the Math that I am militarily viable to be taken out. Or any Civ pretty much... They just do a calculation and distance-military size-etc... and you're at war at a certain point unless you're lucky enough to find them at war constantly with someone else. It's just built into the code.
BTW: You want to get the basic value for your dollars in Tech(lux resource development, develop the heck out your Real Estate, keep your cities away from the Sea as they don't develop as fast there, you want make the CSs happy if you have to buy them off as their bonus food/happiness is a huge boost when you're really not doing well a high population or early development. A lot of this can be done for next to nothing just by discovering World Wonders, building roads, or trading off one of your resources/luxs for something they want or you own City wants. Always get Love the King Day if you can trade up... so you have to be very active, to get the highest possible population you can dream of. Making lots of friends and no enemies, avoiding war, be cautious of Defensive Treaties..
I have found I never get to dip into Rationalism fully by the time I get Industrial Era ..(means you're teching right)
In the end you will have the highest Tech/everyone will fear your Nukes/plus if you really boom with National College-Specialists-Oxford... you will have the ability to now influence the world. I found the AI doesn't do too bad when you lessen the amount of AI on a Normal Sized Map.(it can get pretty high Pop/Science with the City Spamming it does) It can almost try to keep pace with you but as far as a war game I cannot figure any other way out to win on Deity. Add your 2 cents, critique me...
Culture/Population Growth and Social Policies. All the little cheats and loopholes for instance, Adopting Warrior Code and killing Barbs all day long doesn't really do much against the AI. Also many of such suggestions. It seems that Warfare is not very practical vs the AI. Though I have found time and time again in order to survive you need several things. Good Terrain, the Right Civilizations and at least space to go up to 4-5 Cities to begin with. Plus if you're next door to an aggressive Civ, good luck... Most with the wrong terrain and not enough room to grow with just get unit spammed. Others may be better at warfare or development/micromanagement than I am..that or Diplomacy but I have tried several suggestions that way and only managed to end up an Age behind the AI at best usually costing me the game in the long run.
All this has been previously outlined on here but I found that the only thing I can do better than the AI is outsmart it with my development choices. Liberty/Tradition mixes or one or the other to get GROWTH. Then whatever religion and happiness that can be acquired as cheap and as fast as possible and staying in the Green with Happiness constantly. Food Focus... Quick establishment of early cities if you have to buy a settler. Scouting like mad to get all the freebies and early cash from CSs/Ruins/but not before you steal a worker(just 1 from the AI CS) Then you really need get those cities growing... preferably you pick opponents like Brazil/India/even get lucky and your Primary Base is on a Peninsula(as you do not have to buy a large military early and risk losing your growth) So with luck and good starter position you can grow your cities to the largest population and the best tech in the game and reach the Atomic Age before anyone and buy a ton of units at that point and spam the AI. I find that waking up next to Napoleon no matter what, if I do not have a massive junk military he will constantly DOW me if I am a certain distance from him and he does the Math that I am militarily viable to be taken out. Or any Civ pretty much... They just do a calculation and distance-military size-etc... and you're at war at a certain point unless you're lucky enough to find them at war constantly with someone else. It's just built into the code.
BTW: You want to get the basic value for your dollars in Tech(lux resource development, develop the heck out your Real Estate, keep your cities away from the Sea as they don't develop as fast there, you want make the CSs happy if you have to buy them off as their bonus food/happiness is a huge boost when you're really not doing well a high population or early development. A lot of this can be done for next to nothing just by discovering World Wonders, building roads, or trading off one of your resources/luxs for something they want or you own City wants. Always get Love the King Day if you can trade up... so you have to be very active, to get the highest possible population you can dream of. Making lots of friends and no enemies, avoiding war, be cautious of Defensive Treaties..
I have found I never get to dip into Rationalism fully by the time I get Industrial Era ..(means you're teching right)
In the end you will have the highest Tech/everyone will fear your Nukes/plus if you really boom with National College-Specialists-Oxford... you will have the ability to now influence the world. I found the AI doesn't do too bad when you lessen the amount of AI on a Normal Sized Map.(it can get pretty high Pop/Science with the City Spamming it does) It can almost try to keep pace with you but as far as a war game I cannot figure any other way out to win on Deity. Add your 2 cents, critique me...