AnthonyBoscia
Emperor
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2010
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Thanks, Wolf! I have not yet tried the method so I haven't seen how it works during revolutions. Never knew that cities could be starved into extinction There are few unhappy buildings in the early game (the Tax Collector comes to mind). Here's the set-up I was considering:
Grassland Plains Hills Forest Desert Flood Mountains Swamp Jungle Tundra Coast Sea Ocean
Base 3 2 1 1 0 4 1 1 1 1 3 2 1
Irrigate/Harbor 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 1
Total 5 4 1 1 2 6 1 1 1 3 4 3 2
Growth 2 1 -2 -2 -1 3 -2 -2 -2 0 1 0 -1
I started a new game as Egypt and it's pretty good so far. The ancient tech tree is a disaster though and needs much reorganization. I bee-lined for philosophy and got Map Making for free, which I then traded all around. Abu Simbel is about worthless so I didn't build it, but the obelisks are nice. The map settings are Arid-Hot-4 billion years so my cities are in flood plains surrounded by mountains with plenty of cotton. Seems perfect! I have a great third city that happened to be built on iron, also has gold in radius with flood plains and mountains-it is beastly with production.
Russia and Germany declared war on me but they are separated from me by the Greeks, who I made a military alliance with to form a nice comfortable buffer. This was followed by Maghreb and Persia declaring war on me, but only after Persia attacked Greece despite their own alliance against the Russians, and my own alliance with Persia against Maghreb. It's a mess! Fortunately my production rocks and I am pumping out swordsmen, which have been battling Punic elephants. I took a major Maghreb city with both grain and ivory and now my counterattack is in full swing. I missed the Statue of Zeus by one turn and got the Heroic Epic instead, which landed me two leaders so far. Working on Autocracy now and will soon be in the Middle Ages. Did I mention how much I love Sandris' units? They are incredible. I think the old city sets also still hold up very well, but in the future I think it's time to add some more Kyriakos graphics as well.
Anyway it's fun to actually play for once without playtesting.
Base 3 2 1 1 0 4 1 1 1 1 3 2 1
Irrigate/Harbor 2 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 1
Total 5 4 1 1 2 6 1 1 1 3 4 3 2
Growth 2 1 -2 -2 -1 3 -2 -2 -2 0 1 0 -1
I started a new game as Egypt and it's pretty good so far. The ancient tech tree is a disaster though and needs much reorganization. I bee-lined for philosophy and got Map Making for free, which I then traded all around. Abu Simbel is about worthless so I didn't build it, but the obelisks are nice. The map settings are Arid-Hot-4 billion years so my cities are in flood plains surrounded by mountains with plenty of cotton. Seems perfect! I have a great third city that happened to be built on iron, also has gold in radius with flood plains and mountains-it is beastly with production.
Russia and Germany declared war on me but they are separated from me by the Greeks, who I made a military alliance with to form a nice comfortable buffer. This was followed by Maghreb and Persia declaring war on me, but only after Persia attacked Greece despite their own alliance against the Russians, and my own alliance with Persia against Maghreb. It's a mess! Fortunately my production rocks and I am pumping out swordsmen, which have been battling Punic elephants. I took a major Maghreb city with both grain and ivory and now my counterattack is in full swing. I missed the Statue of Zeus by one turn and got the Heroic Epic instead, which landed me two leaders so far. Working on Autocracy now and will soon be in the Middle Ages. Did I mention how much I love Sandris' units? They are incredible. I think the old city sets also still hold up very well, but in the future I think it's time to add some more Kyriakos graphics as well.
Anyway it's fun to actually play for once without playtesting.