Bamboocha
Warlord
I'd like some advice for Immortal/Deity. I can consistently win with pretty much any victory condition on Emperor, but Immortal is just too "unfair" (which is to say, the AI gets too many advantages). Whenever I try to play, either one of the following scenarios happens.
1 I try to go for a peaceful victory type, like Cultural or Scientific
a Early in the game the enemy instantly rushes me, before I can even get a full army up and running. In my last Korea game (Korea is supposed to be powerful, right?) Sweden declared war on me (for settling too close to them, but I didn't have much space to expand as is, and they also never explicitly asked me to stop settling near them. We also had a declaration of friendship so I thought we were good) and rushed my fourth city with an entire blanket of swordsmen, pikemen and composite bowmen. Even with my crossbowmen (I was rushing printing press to get the Tower of Pisa and Globe Theater for my cultural victory) I was no match for them. I'd lost my city before I even knew what was happening, and I quit because there's no way I could've kept that massive force away from my capital.
b Through some miracle I survive the early game, but the gap between myself and the AI is too big to overcome. In science they're multiple techs ahead of me (and also able to steal crucial wonders away), in tourism they always dwarf me, and they have enough money to buy the favor of enough city-states and steal them away from under my nose.
2 I go for early agression myself and quickly build up a nice invasion force (usually with Assyria or Huns because of their awesome early game siege units). I can manage to capture one or two capitals, but quickly run out of steam because I run out of gold and happiness. I'm forced to sit back and catch my breath, but by that point every civ I know hates me. Then one (or if I'm really unlucky multiple) civ declares war on me, summons a gigantic blanket of troops out of seemingly nowhere and I'm done for.
Turtling up doesn't work, and going on the offensive doesn't work either. What should I be doing then?
If it helps my build order is usually
-Scout
-Scout (If Tradition, otherwise I start building a monument until Pottery is researched)
-Shrine (if I don't have tradition, I finish the monument after this)
-A worker (if I didn't manage to steal one from a CS)
-A settler for my next city
-Some more settlers and buildings that make good use of my resources (unless I'm playing agressive, at which point I usually pump out compsite bowmen/horse archers and battering rams/siege towers)
(If there are any mods watching, I know I have another thread on the front page but it's been inactive for over 10 days. If I knew how to remove it I would've done so, as to not clutter up the front page too much)
1 I try to go for a peaceful victory type, like Cultural or Scientific
a Early in the game the enemy instantly rushes me, before I can even get a full army up and running. In my last Korea game (Korea is supposed to be powerful, right?) Sweden declared war on me (for settling too close to them, but I didn't have much space to expand as is, and they also never explicitly asked me to stop settling near them. We also had a declaration of friendship so I thought we were good) and rushed my fourth city with an entire blanket of swordsmen, pikemen and composite bowmen. Even with my crossbowmen (I was rushing printing press to get the Tower of Pisa and Globe Theater for my cultural victory) I was no match for them. I'd lost my city before I even knew what was happening, and I quit because there's no way I could've kept that massive force away from my capital.
b Through some miracle I survive the early game, but the gap between myself and the AI is too big to overcome. In science they're multiple techs ahead of me (and also able to steal crucial wonders away), in tourism they always dwarf me, and they have enough money to buy the favor of enough city-states and steal them away from under my nose.
2 I go for early agression myself and quickly build up a nice invasion force (usually with Assyria or Huns because of their awesome early game siege units). I can manage to capture one or two capitals, but quickly run out of steam because I run out of gold and happiness. I'm forced to sit back and catch my breath, but by that point every civ I know hates me. Then one (or if I'm really unlucky multiple) civ declares war on me, summons a gigantic blanket of troops out of seemingly nowhere and I'm done for.
Turtling up doesn't work, and going on the offensive doesn't work either. What should I be doing then?
If it helps my build order is usually
-Scout
-Scout (If Tradition, otherwise I start building a monument until Pottery is researched)
-Shrine (if I don't have tradition, I finish the monument after this)
-A worker (if I didn't manage to steal one from a CS)
-A settler for my next city
-Some more settlers and buildings that make good use of my resources (unless I'm playing agressive, at which point I usually pump out compsite bowmen/horse archers and battering rams/siege towers)
(If there are any mods watching, I know I have another thread on the front page but it's been inactive for over 10 days. If I knew how to remove it I would've done so, as to not clutter up the front page too much)
