Recent content by General_Ski

Well first of all Italy has a number of traits, cities common with the Roman Empire. Second, HRE was not just Germany... HRE Encompassed parts of Spain, France, Hungary Austria. Italy on the other hand is nowhere near the size of the Roman Empire. In fact Italy splintered, and has yet to gain at...

Roosvelt does not count as industrious and in possession of stone, you can easily avoid barbs with a Great Wall, no sweat, even if you do not have stone. As for other comments, well... Would then early archery not be of benefit, as by the time you figure what resource you have, a) you have to...

Dude it's clear from this, that you have never had a start, where you did not have a useful military resource in range, and ai did not try to box you in... Rapidly... There are times when there is no copper, iron or horses nearby. Then you are screwed... It happened to me more often than not...

Yeah.. I don't know... That's the thing.. I'd be whipping up archers instead of warriors, since he is already started with hunting... And go for mining/bw after that... Warriors are just no match for a good barb rush, or an ai rush. At least archers with barracks can stop axemen, and even...

There is nothing wrong with aggressive start. The problem is once you take 1-2 cities you will run out of steam.. Your research will go to naught.. Your economy will suffer. A bit of a defensive start allows you A) to build infrastructure B)Diversify your defenses to handle barbarian hordes...

P.S. You might also want to pay special consideration, to the little fact that youc an build scouts right away, so you may want to get a few along the line... Popping a few villages ought to do some good for your economy, at least enable you to research at a loss for a few turns, once you get a...

By WB, I meant workboat. You don't really want a second city on turn three... Not at least till turn 20...

Of course starting with Monarch, it's coming from behind. But to do so you have to squeeze every advantage you have got. That means city positioning, research building tree. If you squander that, it almost impossible to come from behind. In this given situation, he is not setup to have more...

I disagree man. Building a workboat first lets your city grow. That means you will have additional pop for production in addition to extra food from wb, not to mention you will have pop to slave, if you want a quicker finish. Second, you do want 3 cities early... 3 cities=3 libraries, plus...

Ok first off. First guy to new world, who is able to settle conquer barb cities, can establish colony after 3 cities are taken. Then he can free him, establishing a loyal vassal, who can expand, take new world, prevent other ai from landing/taking it, in addition to providing you with points...

So what is peace going to buy him.. 1-2 more cities, which will be a money drain till they will get up to speed? I do realize this is played on noble. But once he establishes bad habits he will have a hard time playing on higher levels. Thus a restart is strongly recommended. A) he will have...

Oh and I forgo warriors in favor of archers.. Much more versatile unit, especially so since you got Monty next to you. Build workboats first, then intermix 2 archers, settler, 2nd city, worker, two archers, settler, city, worker, etc. research archery, roads, bronze working, pottery, etc... By...

Oh I don't know.. I disagree... Start with workboat. Research archery, especially since you have hunting, as greeks. Build archers and workboats. Expand. Then build worker... Otherwise you need to setup for early war, not on your terms and settle with AI locations for cities. Except 90% of the...

But you pretty much did that, except the naval invasion part:)...

First of all... Vassaling Catherine would have been the simpler apporach... That would have secured your flank. To do that. You needed to have created a defensive force. That would hold off her frontal stacks. While you could have sneaked in from the back via sea, with your invasion stack. Taken...