Barefoot2013
Chieftain
Hi.
I'm the kind of player who likes to sit down and play a game from start to finish. Thus I always play tiny map (4 players) and quick pace - sometimes continents, but mostly pangea.
I've beaten the AI at emperor [G&K] several times and in several different ways. So I decided to move on to Immortal. Here I get my ass kicked!
So I decided to watch some videos with Deity victories and read up on strategies on this forum. The problem is though, that every game I've seen on YouTube and every strategy guide I've read is based on standard pace and often also standard sized maps.
I think there is a huge difference in the game depending on which game pace you use. Right now I'm trying a strategy with selling of luxuries to get to upgrade an army of archers (like 6 or 7) to combosite bows as fast as possible and hope to beat at least the first first other civ with that. I start with one city, tradition to get the policies rolling, spawn a settler near the end of National College, and found my second city. Usually around this time an AI civ attacks and I can fend it off and get one of its cities.
I've seen this strategy work on Deity on standard pace. But at this time at quick speed the AI starts spawning musketmen. I might be lucky enough to break one civ and get their capital before they start spawning musketmen and later cannons with my low tech army, but even so in the mean time the others have just run away tech wise and I can see their riflemen patrolling the borders of my land. And now I'm so far behind that I'll get crushed by the AI.
Do you have any good tips for playing quick paced game on tiny maps? How can I improve my strategy and tactics?
Are there tips that can be used in these types of games that can also be used in multiplayer and vice versa (same pace and map size)?
Cheers from Denmark
I'm the kind of player who likes to sit down and play a game from start to finish. Thus I always play tiny map (4 players) and quick pace - sometimes continents, but mostly pangea.
I've beaten the AI at emperor [G&K] several times and in several different ways. So I decided to move on to Immortal. Here I get my ass kicked!
So I decided to watch some videos with Deity victories and read up on strategies on this forum. The problem is though, that every game I've seen on YouTube and every strategy guide I've read is based on standard pace and often also standard sized maps.
I think there is a huge difference in the game depending on which game pace you use. Right now I'm trying a strategy with selling of luxuries to get to upgrade an army of archers (like 6 or 7) to combosite bows as fast as possible and hope to beat at least the first first other civ with that. I start with one city, tradition to get the policies rolling, spawn a settler near the end of National College, and found my second city. Usually around this time an AI civ attacks and I can fend it off and get one of its cities.
I've seen this strategy work on Deity on standard pace. But at this time at quick speed the AI starts spawning musketmen. I might be lucky enough to break one civ and get their capital before they start spawning musketmen and later cannons with my low tech army, but even so in the mean time the others have just run away tech wise and I can see their riflemen patrolling the borders of my land. And now I'm so far behind that I'll get crushed by the AI.
Do you have any good tips for playing quick paced game on tiny maps? How can I improve my strategy and tactics?
Are there tips that can be used in these types of games that can also be used in multiplayer and vice versa (same pace and map size)?
Cheers from Denmark