lindsay40k
Emperor
Me? I've been trying to get my first Deity win.
I play with huts and events, which is fine because that's what I enjoy.
I was Ethiopia and north of Churchill. My start was cattle and two flood plains, but with Marble and Gold I figured I'd let it roll.
Winston builds TGW and Mids. Great, that's me fending off Barbs with just Chariots. My generals have Greed for the Copper around Hastings. I also get War Chariots quest.
I'm on Marathon, so eight Chariots before Alphabet is quite do-able; indeed, it's necessary for security. My borders push back those of Hastings. Evil plot forms!
With a half dozen Chariots, I blitz Hastings. Four free Axemen! Whilst fighting a tactical withdrawal of Addis Ababa, I take my free units and march on London. It's mine! Deity axe rush without metals
Winston isn't happy, and I have to liberate Addis and take Nottingham before he gives up. Along with Izzy, the three of us become devout Buddhist faithful. Shaka doesn't like that. A legion of Zulu come at a weak border city. But I don't quit; Music gives me a GA, and trades including Theology. During the GA, I get GLib (Would have got Parthenon, too, were it not for a hurricane in London taking out my Forge), and a horde of Shock Axemen. I dismantle a dozen Zulu SoDs, like them evil fish who peck lobsters to death, and take back my city. Shaka refuses peace unless I hand it over; Pope Hammurabi tells us to pack it in.
Now, with a HE city with four GGs and a super healer, I fancy my luck at the holy city of Barcelona. I've not yet got a NE city, and all them Wonders she's built will make a decent late catchup. Maybe even go Corporate, with a NE/WS holy city. I figure brother Winston will intervene. Fine. His stack banzai charges London Castle. My Crossbowmen come out with Combat and three promos; Shock CGII laughs at a dozen Macemen without siege units, and he hands over 220G. Barcelona falls, as does Madrid. Spies pull down her Castles. Wang Kon and Hammurabi DoW.
What?
Hammu has peace vassaled to Wang, and she's persuaded them to join in. The most sectarian religious leader has gone crawling to the heathens for help as we have our robust discussion about who is best suited to govern our Holy City.
Hammu's SoD is fragmented and dies in waves. I figure I could get him to give up, but it wasn't until the MOUNTAIN of Korean knights appear that I notice he was a vassal. They run through Barcelona and Madrid, my CGIII Longbows and SCGII Crossbows running out of quivers, and my Formation Pikemen drowning in the blood of their piled high enemies. His army does not stop to occupy the city, it runs through headlong into my stack of CRIII Maces and overwhelms their guards, three units surviving on red to inform me that Pachacuti will heal no more.
I call it a day at that, as our oh-so-pious founder of Buddhism invites the Hindu heretics to occupy our most sacred city, and there is plainly no way my 0.5 UPT HE city is going to produce an army in time to take anything back. Even if London survives the inevitable human wave attack, Wang is in no mood to negotiate...
I play with huts and events, which is fine because that's what I enjoy.
I was Ethiopia and north of Churchill. My start was cattle and two flood plains, but with Marble and Gold I figured I'd let it roll.
Winston builds TGW and Mids. Great, that's me fending off Barbs with just Chariots. My generals have Greed for the Copper around Hastings. I also get War Chariots quest.
I'm on Marathon, so eight Chariots before Alphabet is quite do-able; indeed, it's necessary for security. My borders push back those of Hastings. Evil plot forms!
With a half dozen Chariots, I blitz Hastings. Four free Axemen! Whilst fighting a tactical withdrawal of Addis Ababa, I take my free units and march on London. It's mine! Deity axe rush without metals
Winston isn't happy, and I have to liberate Addis and take Nottingham before he gives up. Along with Izzy, the three of us become devout Buddhist faithful. Shaka doesn't like that. A legion of Zulu come at a weak border city. But I don't quit; Music gives me a GA, and trades including Theology. During the GA, I get GLib (Would have got Parthenon, too, were it not for a hurricane in London taking out my Forge), and a horde of Shock Axemen. I dismantle a dozen Zulu SoDs, like them evil fish who peck lobsters to death, and take back my city. Shaka refuses peace unless I hand it over; Pope Hammurabi tells us to pack it in.
Now, with a HE city with four GGs and a super healer, I fancy my luck at the holy city of Barcelona. I've not yet got a NE city, and all them Wonders she's built will make a decent late catchup. Maybe even go Corporate, with a NE/WS holy city. I figure brother Winston will intervene. Fine. His stack banzai charges London Castle. My Crossbowmen come out with Combat and three promos; Shock CGII laughs at a dozen Macemen without siege units, and he hands over 220G. Barcelona falls, as does Madrid. Spies pull down her Castles. Wang Kon and Hammurabi DoW.
What?
Hammu has peace vassaled to Wang, and she's persuaded them to join in. The most sectarian religious leader has gone crawling to the heathens for help as we have our robust discussion about who is best suited to govern our Holy City.
Hammu's SoD is fragmented and dies in waves. I figure I could get him to give up, but it wasn't until the MOUNTAIN of Korean knights appear that I notice he was a vassal. They run through Barcelona and Madrid, my CGIII Longbows and SCGII Crossbows running out of quivers, and my Formation Pikemen drowning in the blood of their piled high enemies. His army does not stop to occupy the city, it runs through headlong into my stack of CRIII Maces and overwhelms their guards, three units surviving on red to inform me that Pachacuti will heal no more.
I call it a day at that, as our oh-so-pious founder of Buddhism invites the Hindu heretics to occupy our most sacred city, and there is plainly no way my 0.5 UPT HE city is going to produce an army in time to take anything back. Even if London survives the inevitable human wave attack, Wang is in no mood to negotiate...