i'll wait for the strategy then i guess. I just don't see how you can do this with the Romans without getting rushed or without a lot of luck. If you say it's easy, then I'm intrested to know how...
you're roman strat is pretty good, but you wrote it a long time ago, and i've used it on occasion, i used to use them a lot. But my thing with them is that you've gotta be able to defend first, and a warrior army on a hill or moving archers around isn't gonna stop a rusher with half a brain.
Morte, you know I respect you as a player (2kforums I'm Grayson), and I'm not trying to insult you with my questioning. I can pull off and always try to get 10+ cities in the BC with a lot of civs, even more with China, Spain, and the Americans, but the romans don't have many growth bonuses. I'm not seeing where you can get the growth and settlers without relying on a lot of gold, which isn't coming every game. even with the gold, the growth isn't there. You've gotta have your cities to three to pump out the settlers in 5 turns and keep them at 2. You've gotta grow rome back up, you've gotta have some hammers spent on units to explore.
If left alone, I have no doubt you can build mass amounts of cities, but I don't think this can be done to the tune of 15 cities if people are coming for you.