Heathcliff
Tactician
Hi,
I have been looking through the guides in the war academy and general advices here.
But I would like to make a point. Often the guides writes like:
Build 2 scouts, go tradition, then build shrine, worker. After that build two-three settlers then two caravans and granaries and libraries and national college...
These are fine advices, but they are forgetting the most important:
You need to build units to keep up the army score or the AI will probably declare war on you and screw up your game. You should check the demographics tab often.
After you have built settlers and grabbed the city locations you wanted, then you should build spearmen until you are not last in army score anymore.
That is much more important than granaries, caravans, libraries and national college.
People often think that:
"Because the AI has such a large advantage on immortal and diety, I have to play optimal and very risky (with no units) to keep up with them."
But that is not true. You have to realize that the AI is very weak at warfare and that you can easily beat a much larger army with better micro.
But if the AI attacks you when you don't have any units you are just screwed.
So play safe in the beginning and when you see that an AI is spamming alot of nice wonders in his capital, just march your army there and take that city.
That is how you beat the AI, despite it having large bonuses on immortal and diety.
I have been looking through the guides in the war academy and general advices here.
But I would like to make a point. Often the guides writes like:
Build 2 scouts, go tradition, then build shrine, worker. After that build two-three settlers then two caravans and granaries and libraries and national college...
These are fine advices, but they are forgetting the most important:
You need to build units to keep up the army score or the AI will probably declare war on you and screw up your game. You should check the demographics tab often.
After you have built settlers and grabbed the city locations you wanted, then you should build spearmen until you are not last in army score anymore.
That is much more important than granaries, caravans, libraries and national college.
People often think that:
"Because the AI has such a large advantage on immortal and diety, I have to play optimal and very risky (with no units) to keep up with them."
But that is not true. You have to realize that the AI is very weak at warfare and that you can easily beat a much larger army with better micro.
But if the AI attacks you when you don't have any units you are just screwed.
So play safe in the beginning and when you see that an AI is spamming alot of nice wonders in his capital, just march your army there and take that city.
That is how you beat the AI, despite it having large bonuses on immortal and diety.