Korea Scenario Deity Win Paranoia

[A Rabid Dopsis]

Here's the thing: I've never played at deity before so I decided to play the Korea scenario as Korea (because, as is well known, it's almost impossible to lose because of China's enormousness) just to have a look around.

I won at turn 53 with no help from China (jerks!).

Does that mean I'm a deity player (pff haha) or is the actual 'beat back Japan' part of the scenario really easy too?

Coz that seems dumb.

[ggmoyang]

Samurai invasion scenario is very easy with Korea or China.
Even if you do actually nothing, China is superpower and you will win the game with highest points.

Or you can rush Himeji(for free castle) in Daegu w/ GE and build a Citadel around daegu. With proper defenses Japan can't capture daegu.

[noncognosco]

So has anyone managed to lose the scenario yet? How do you do it other than blatantly handicapping yourself (eg by deleting all of your units)?

[thadian]

I played as korea once and lost because china was NO HELP to me, and i lost as japan once because i didn't realize how strong the coastal fortresses really are. <hangs head in shame with picard facepalm>

[joncnunn]

Checking the stats; a few people have managed to somehow lose as Korea, but not many.

Your performance though is much better than mine; it took me until turn 100 to win and I still hadn't quite managed to retake 3 SE most cities from Japan.

China actually did help me in my own game. But China managed to lose one of its own cities to Japan and never recaptured it.

[ggmoyang]

To lose:
use some units to block china reinforcements.
Build weak units and do suicide attacks to Japan. (Unit kills award victory points)

[A Rabid Dopsis]

Huh, maybe I should move up from prince then...

I find it hilarious that china just sort of wanders in at turn fifty with their massive army and suicides a knight into the last city I have to take. Good job, buddy!