What, no one did this so far? I've seen LOTS of screenshots of rome conquering europe far in the BCs, though I don't know the difficulty level. But as we all know the AI is usually easy rushed, especially when having few (no) space to expand.
It may be true that no-one opened a thread here about something like that.
I don't see why you'd want to change order of targets without raging barbs; raging barbs don't harm you in europe where every tile is fogbusted easily with the density of AIs around, but civs like russia, persia, india, egypt, mali, aztec, inka, amerika, ... will be harassed relentlessly, and none of them are amongst your first targets I guess.
Russia establishes itself VERY quickly, and becomes a major problem later. With the raging barbs they were held back at first, but without them they would dominate me if I didn't rush them. I would do Germany, Greece, then Russia without raging barbs, instead of saving them for as late as I did.
On another note, how do the Inca get harassed at all from barbarians? They are completely protected from mountains. If you mean that when they expand, generally the AI for them doesn't do that beyond that area. And the Aztecs and Russians seem to have kicked the barbarians asses without too much trouble.
As for no one has done it before, doing it on Deity it different from doing it on Monarch or whatever the norm level is. Give me come credit for that atleast. And still until now (1140AD) the only two reloads were those first two.
The first country I took over was Germany, then Greece, France, Spain, then I took over most of Persia (declaring peace when they were left to one crappy city and they offered me a tech for it), Arabia, Egypt, and I moved my army into Mali, but it was mostly spent by the time it got there, and while I destroyed 3 of their cities, I didn't gain an territory there (not a big deal though). I didn't take a screenshot, but it was about year 500BC. England had gained a sizeable tech lead, so I went for them next. I didn't like their city placement, so I raised their first two cities, and planned to put new ones, but I was only able to put one, because Russia came in and took the spot for the other. I left England with Iceland, and 2 northern Scandinavian cities for a tech, this was about 200 AD. Between then and now (1140AD) I've put a lot of buildings in my cities, and I've researched rifling and steel, and build a large army of rifleman and cannons (and upgrading a lot of old units - thanks to a Great Merchant). Russia research a lot of government techs. I had high defenses in Egypt (Russia has taken/made several cities in Africa), and along my border with Russia, and I sent 2 armies in, one of about 50 Riflemen, 15 cannons, the other of about 15 riflemen, 8 cannons, and I am Basically crushing Russia. Before the war started they had 2.7 million soldiers, and I had 1.9 million, I now have 2 million (as I've continued to build riflemen) and they have 1.8 million. I Invaded them in the 1000-some AD.
Looking at the world builder (to tell you what's going on elsewhere), The Aztecs (who I still haven't bothered to try to get in contact with) have almost fully taken over North America. Based on how things look, I am thinking that barbarians ran over America (the only Barbarian city in North America is New York) China has taken over pretty much all of the Orient, I never was in contact with Genghis Khan (who no longer exists), and both India and China (and Japan has 1) are building cities on those islands going all they way south to Australia. India and China seem to be catching up to me and Russia in techs.
I have not yet declared peace with Russia, but probably will soon.
I guess my thread should have been titled about how I was going to win, because that was my intention. I'm trying to win Domination victory, so I'll see how that works out.
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