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I didn't start my Conquest Wars - I differenziate between Worker Wars, Strategic Wars and Conquest Wars - very early. The only exception was the Gallic War (540BC - 470BC). But in this War I captured only two cities and destroyed all the other. And also the capture of two cities was a mistake...

Contender, Conquest Victory In my opinion this WotM was a good example that not only the diffculty level determines how challengig is a game. The influence of the map has at least the same importance. In this game the map helps the human player a lot. It was a very good starting position: You...

It seems that Klarius is clever enough to wait until they have Cavalry. But at least they filled all their Armies with Knights (there is one Army filled with only one Knight). So if they have bad luck and they will get no Leader for the next twenty turns, it is possible that it will become very...

Also congrats from me. I was not online for some days. So I was very surprised to see that the game is already over.

Also in my opinion it is better to go also for Magnetism because of the same reasons mentioned by socralynnek. When you are starting a war at this time and you don't destroy the Cities of your victim, then you have to eliminate the Civilization completely. Then we have a real problem. But this...

My save is available. I will start with important news: I saw the first Barbarian Guards, but I didn't see the Barbarian Stronghold. And I am sure that it will take some time until the first player of our team will see this City. The Barbarian Guards I saw (in sum five) are all placed on...

If the theory mentioned on the War Weariness Page is correct, we should already have War Weariness Level 1. And after my ten turns we will have at least War Weariness Level 2. But I made a calculation concerning the consequences of War Weariness. When we are continuing to fight the Barbarian...

The Barbarians will get Gunpowder soon - if they don't have it yet - and then it will not be easy to conquer their Cities. And they have a lot of Cities (Before you ask me how it is possible to know this: have a look to the Victory Screen:p). Also if we are forcing our military activities...

I agree with killercane that we should discuss the next steps very detailed. In my opinion we should eliminate all the other Civilizations. They will not help us a lot. Some years ago I played an SdM - the German version of GotM - with two alliances in a locked war. Every alliance consisted...

I had a look to all the units and there is something strange (at least for me): the Caravels have eight movement points. Also the Barbarian Continent should be not only a small island. So maybe it is possible to reach the Barbarian Continent without Navigation. At least we should test it. I...

Maybe there is a little misunderstanding: In the moment Cuzco is ours. But I don't know how long it will be. I am afraid that Cuzco will flip in socralynnek's session. My original plan was to take out the Incan Civilization completely in one war. But this wasn't possible this time. Cuzco is...

Unfortunately I have bad news for you. But I will tell you step by step. I got Construction from the Byzantines for Literature and 162 Gold. The free Technology of the Byzantines was Feudalism. The next step was to bring also the Sumerian into the Middle Ages by trading. Before trading I...

I will trade Construction from the Byzantines for the best price I can get. In the same turn both Scientific Civs will be in the Middle Ages. I hope that at least one of them will get Monotheism (55% chance). Anyway what happens I will take the direct research path to Navigation. Also I will...

I would be glad when you would be right. But the Score Graph at the Progress and Results page tells me something different: I can not believe that the performance especially of Klarius and Team Liz is possible with Despotism. For me it seems that they made the slingshot - maybe a Monarchy...

Concerning the further research: The AI is researching Map Making very soon. So we will get it by trading early enough. Also Construction and Polytheism are normally researched by the AIs, but they ignore Currency. So I propose to research Currency next hoping that we then can trade...