Barbuesque
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- Dec 5, 2011
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Does anyone have any tips for the Phoenician UHV? I have tried a couple of times now and it just seems impossible to me, even on Marathon the timescale is just too short, and it's often very difficult to defend against the Persians and Romans. I can usually get the Cothon and Palace in Cathage (especially if I end up loosing Sur to the Persians), and control of Spain is easy. However, successfully defeating the Romans in the time frame seems very difficult. Wouldn't even know about the final UHV as I've never made it that far.
There are 2 different walkthroughs in the "doc 1.10 challenge threads". Very short summary of mine:
1) Sail west and found Carthage at the capital, 2nd city in Spain on the silver. Build the great cothon in carthage.
2) Hire mercenaries and conquer Greece. The available mercenary forces should dwarf greece's military.
4) Once you have Horseback riding, conquering rome should be easy. Whip them out from Spain and carthage. It's also good trade fodder for both rome (before the war) and india
5) once you get currency, build a marketplace and run 2 merchants. Building the great lighthouse before in your future merchant city will speed it up quite a bit. Send the great merchant to a holy city for 2K gold. The double hinduism/buddhism indian city is guaranteed that amount.