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Does the AI attack an archer army if you give it a chance?

Sedentary Barbs means no Barb camps; the only source of Barbarians is when they get popped from a hut by a non-expansionist civ.

@BlackBetsy -- I haven't started my new histo game yet, but it'll be months before I could possibly submit. I haven't played much of late, recently I was re-watcing Twin Peaks (the first two seasons [edit: for the first time since it was first broadcast in the UK in the early 90s]) but that's...

Why so many spearmen?

I do think I once saw the AI get an SGL for their free tech after gifting them into the middle ages. Dunno if it was because they immediately rushed Sun Tzu, or maybe I guessed it from the replay.

Maybe you're right... I certainly can't say for sure that an SGL is possible from a ToE tech, I was theorizing.

You can also theoretically get three SGLs as a non-scientific civ; if ToE completes on the same turn as you discover a tech, you could get one each for the new tech and the two free techs. I've once had twin SGLs from the slingshot, it was very nice.

You can see a log of some events (but not volcanoes, just the same things as shown in the end-game replay) using the Viewer program in the CRpSuite set of programs by Dianthus. There's an internet archive link in the first post of that thread and a CFC link at the top of the current last page of...

That's pretty tough luck. I found as well that if the first attack promotes the warrior without damage there's a high chance of losing a stack of 4-5. On reflection that's probably why I wasn't focusing on getting an SGL, it might just be too much to ask for, luck with SGL and combat.

I guess if you pop the cheap techs you're left with more expensive ones to self-research, but there's still only time to research a handful of techs anyway so it's not like there's that many opportunities for the SGL.

Do you have huts on, for an early town/settler? Maybe don't bother with the granary in the capital, just go straight to ToA after a few Chasquis and maybe one or two settlers.

For the early rush, have you tried using the Inca, like I did on Standard Chieftain? (also with the Inca you can use huts to look for an early 2nd town) The Aztecs could also work for that too but Barbarians would probably be more of a nuisance.

Not too shabby.

I thought that so long as you don't select "custom map" in the scenario menu, then it would generate a random map for you, maybe I'm misremembering that part (TBH I don't use the editor much at all) -- you could try posting in the creation and customization forum maybe. edit: I just tried it...

Yes, that's right.