How does one deal with large patches of jungle if you're going for a liberty 3 city domination game into crossbow rush?
I recently played a game where I killed Egypt with crossbows, then moved on to go kill Rome and there was a huge jungle in between me and him; I had made a declaration of friendship with Persia early on so I couldn't kill him and I felt like I had to kill Rome next because he was first in every category and had already slaughtered Greece. Except by the time I got into his core cities he already had Muskets and Castles in all of his cities.
The game before that, as China I started on the western edge of a Pangaea with a huge jungle to the south (Polynesia) and a mountain range and more jungle to the east (Maya), which cut me off from the rest of the map. I started with Honor in this one, not Liberty, and the slower xbows were obsolete before I could take much more than Honolulu.
Both of these were standard maps pangaeas, 4 billion years, normal climate, etc. Acken's sub T160 China win had none of these terrain problems until the very end when he was going for his last capital when he already controlled half the map.
Is it basically a requirement to have good terrain to get one of these really fast xbow domination victories? How do I deal with it?
I recently played a game where I killed Egypt with crossbows, then moved on to go kill Rome and there was a huge jungle in between me and him; I had made a declaration of friendship with Persia early on so I couldn't kill him and I felt like I had to kill Rome next because he was first in every category and had already slaughtered Greece. Except by the time I got into his core cities he already had Muskets and Castles in all of his cities.
The game before that, as China I started on the western edge of a Pangaea with a huge jungle to the south (Polynesia) and a mountain range and more jungle to the east (Maya), which cut me off from the rest of the map. I started with Honor in this one, not Liberty, and the slower xbows were obsolete before I could take much more than Honolulu.
Both of these were standard maps pangaeas, 4 billion years, normal climate, etc. Acken's sub T160 China win had none of these terrain problems until the very end when he was going for his last capital when he already controlled half the map.
Is it basically a requirement to have good terrain to get one of these really fast xbow domination victories? How do I deal with it?