I was playing a game on immortal as Assyria the other day on a continents map and got a decent start location in the middle with no coastline. A peaceful Portugal in the north and a not so peaceful Poland in the south. Now, I'm not a good immortal player and need a better start location and an early game without wars to be competitive.
Tried to maintain a good relation with Poland but he wanted otherwise, I got constantly attacked by him and his wast armies. Managed to hold him off and got peace when his units were killed off. Only to get attacked again when his army was rebuild.
So, now I decided to be at constant war with him, even though he wanted peace, and use my smaller army a little all the time rather than having to rusch units to stop the tsunami attacks that I know would come anyway. The game was lost though since the early pressure.
After this I've tried it once against Shaka and it worked pretty well, this time on emperor since that's my preferred difficulty level. He was way behind since he was building nothing but his army and I managed to cripple his expansion.
What do you think? Are there any long term disadvantages using this method, like the warmonger penalty? Does this accumulate?
I think it might work sometimes, depending on the opponents of course, if you're able to continue to build other things than soldiers at the same time. You'll get a decent amount of upgraded units as well.
Tried to maintain a good relation with Poland but he wanted otherwise, I got constantly attacked by him and his wast armies. Managed to hold him off and got peace when his units were killed off. Only to get attacked again when his army was rebuild.
So, now I decided to be at constant war with him, even though he wanted peace, and use my smaller army a little all the time rather than having to rusch units to stop the tsunami attacks that I know would come anyway. The game was lost though since the early pressure.
After this I've tried it once against Shaka and it worked pretty well, this time on emperor since that's my preferred difficulty level. He was way behind since he was building nothing but his army and I managed to cripple his expansion.
What do you think? Are there any long term disadvantages using this method, like the warmonger penalty? Does this accumulate?
I think it might work sometimes, depending on the opponents of course, if you're able to continue to build other things than soldiers at the same time. You'll get a decent amount of upgraded units as well.