How many expos? Your usual two for three cities? What was NC timing? Also your initial build order and priorities for the tech tree please.
Thanks! I will be settling on T0 on the cotton, more for the observatory than the quicker lux, plus I can farm the hill. Settling-on-luxes and hills are more a priority for my expos.
From the opening SS, I am thinking pottery, calendar, AH, archery, then mining and masonry before writing, philosophy, and then off towards education.
BO will be scout, scout, shrine, monument, worker (if I have not stolen one), then archers and a couple settlers, then library and NC. Expos will be monument then library.
That is all my opening plans, and I welcome your critique. One problem is that the above is all pretty generic. I don’t think I would do anything different for Liberty or Tradition (except expos skipping monument).
OK, well I got Education T105 so that's one benchmark for you. I've added the T105 save as well if anyone wants it.
Yes, and thanks! I may need some benchmarks for T50 or so, to tell if I am on the right track. I means specifics beyond the general ideas. T105 education would be very fast for me, so I may have to give up some of my initial plans to get near that. I am struggling to get any kind of dom win, and I don’t much care how fast it is.
I tried that before with MadDjinn's India LP and found that the playthroughs were too different very quickly for it to really work.
That is good point!
My intention was that people new to warmongering would test their strategies on this map, since it's better than average but not OP, and can be done Trad, Lib or Hon.
Understood, and I think that is great! But did you play the map already a few times? If not, how can you be so confident that it’s better than average and works for all three warmongering styles? Just asking.
By all means, but I really recommend trying it for yourself first, at least a couple of times. Learning what you need to do in the first 100 turns on DomV is really half the battle.
I agree completely! The T105 file will be a nice break if I get frustrated after few attempts at reaching your benchmarks. Having it available will encourage me to try harder, and maybe I won’t need it!