vanatteveldt
Emperor
After some friendly advise I am considering the Germany DCL. Three salient features of this map (besides the leader) are raging barbs and
a lot of empty land W and S, and a mad berserker E.
Although there is some tangential discussion of this in the thread, I would like to get some opinions about the consequences of raging barbs for the opening play in domination games. Particular questions:
1) Is it worth opening honor for the culture and combat bonus?
2) If you go honor -> liberty, the settler policy will be delayed and you will probably get a lot of units from snowballing barb camps, resulting in unit cap problems. Can/should this be avoided? Build/buy a settler before the policy?
3) I guess you need to insert archery and a couple archers early on to survive the barb onslaught. How does that affect turn times, e.g. for a CB rush on the friendly neighbour?
4) How does raging barbs affect AI progress?
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a lot of empty land W and S, and a mad berserker E.
Although there is some tangential discussion of this in the thread, I would like to get some opinions about the consequences of raging barbs for the opening play in domination games. Particular questions:
1) Is it worth opening honor for the culture and combat bonus?
2) If you go honor -> liberty, the settler policy will be delayed and you will probably get a lot of units from snowballing barb camps, resulting in unit cap problems. Can/should this be avoided? Build/buy a settler before the policy?
3) I guess you need to insert archery and a couple archers early on to survive the barb onslaught. How does that affect turn times, e.g. for a CB rush on the friendly neighbour?
4) How does raging barbs affect AI progress?