Recent content by LincolnOfRome

I think it will be easier with an emperor game to get a better date. You have to wait so long for prince-level AI's to get anything decent to trade. The raging barbs might even cripple a few AI's.

Even without barbs, you should have probably settled one of the strategic resources by 1600BC. The horse site is a stronger city than the copper city, either working Bombay's wheat or lake tiles with lighthouse. Chariots might not work to well attacking Holkans, but your chance for peace...

I see four cities. Why wasn't one of them adjacent to a strategic resource?

This was a really funny game. I was pretty much trying to go straight to military tradition, and I almost won liberalism before any of the AI's had alphabet to trade for. The starting continent was not a great production point. As I was focused on conquest, I didn't settle any of the...

Hah, if you build a settler from the city, you'll have to rename it "el gusano." Nice job on the writeup. I'll have to get back to my Mansa game.

I wandered east with my initial settler, hoping that there might be a city with two food east of the pigs. I did end up building my capital two east of the pigs. I built two more cities on the island and wiped out the Ethiopians with swordsmen, taking three cities (two on the main continent...

I don't usually attempt deity in these games, but I'll give it a shot. Cheap workers and granaries along with free border pops are awesome leader traits!

Thanks everyone for your help, especially Sampsa. The micro at the beginning was a huge help. I've never had a size 17 capital at 1AD. I decided to play on and finish the game. I followed the technological progression from the video that Sampsa shared in the post above. I ended up winning...

The archers wandered all the way down to Tigro where they were killed by 3 axemen. The economy is slowing after building some cities.

I did notice him using a lot of specialists. I know the same thing can be done with cottages and there is the 100% bonus during golden ages. Would you suggest a very early music? A merchant can bulb CS, a scientist can bulb Philosophy and Education.

I watched the videos. He only researched the technologies that were necessary to his chosen path.

OK. I'll watch this.

Thanks. I seem to have a good amount food and three happiness should help my largest cities grow. Math should be a good tech to research.. It is necessary for both CS and Music.

I think I'll build the crab/ivory city and the gem city. This will give me two luxuries. I have a technology to research coming up. Math and CoL both lead to CS. CoL lets me run caste. Aesthetics/Lit and Math are on the path to Music. Currency is best for my economy. I have a type of...

Thanks for your help. I can see a big advantage to taking advantage of mechanics whenever possible. Maybe aim for earliest possible conquistadors? How would I accomplish that? Churchill is very close to alphabet. Should I cottage the hills? I was thinking of trying a more challenging map and...