dontworryabouttsunami
Chieftain
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I play on Immortal. My default Lib tech always used to be Steel, but I see that Military Tradition is a more popular choice, speculated about the reasons why, and wanted to know if I'm on the right track.
I've taken Military Tradition a few times now, and I find it has some disadvantages compared to Steel. It seems much harder to maintain a tech advantage -- enemies get Cuirassiers pretty quickly. And they are somewhat harder to use. Cannons and Rifles are very straightforward, you just march in and take stuff, but with horses you have to be a bit clever and manoeuvre around and attack undefended spots. And since you'll be at tech parity eventually, if you're using your movement points and jumping around deep into enemy territory you can easily lose a stack. So for weaker players there may be an advantage to keeping things simple.
It's mostly Deity players I'm looking at, so is part of the reason because it's harder to get to Steel in time on Deity? Mil Trad is not far off the Lib path, but Steel is way out of the way. It's doable on Immortal but probably less so on Deity. Of course it's situational which one is going to be better, but I'm curious to know if Steel would be a more popular target on Deity if it were easier to get, or if Mil Trad is just plain stronger and would still be preferred.
Obviously there are other choices too like Astronomy but that's beyond the scope of this thread.
I've taken Military Tradition a few times now, and I find it has some disadvantages compared to Steel. It seems much harder to maintain a tech advantage -- enemies get Cuirassiers pretty quickly. And they are somewhat harder to use. Cannons and Rifles are very straightforward, you just march in and take stuff, but with horses you have to be a bit clever and manoeuvre around and attack undefended spots. And since you'll be at tech parity eventually, if you're using your movement points and jumping around deep into enemy territory you can easily lose a stack. So for weaker players there may be an advantage to keeping things simple.
It's mostly Deity players I'm looking at, so is part of the reason because it's harder to get to Steel in time on Deity? Mil Trad is not far off the Lib path, but Steel is way out of the way. It's doable on Immortal but probably less so on Deity. Of course it's situational which one is going to be better, but I'm curious to know if Steel would be a more popular target on Deity if it were easier to get, or if Mil Trad is just plain stronger and would still be preferred.
Obviously there are other choices too like Astronomy but that's beyond the scope of this thread.