Recent content by madmaven

Quechuas, right? It sounds good since they get a bonus vs archery. It does take them forever to move them across the map so those first two would have to be moved to the map edges and then work them in? And then spam from your home city and move outward?

Does the best strategy on this gauntlet revolve around a 1 and 6 chance of taking the 1st civ down immediately?

Yes, use the whip! It's a good plan. They'll get over it.

It seems like 1400 or 1500 BC is the best consistently posted time (except for the 2700 bc time), which makes me feel better because I'm at least in the ballpark. Did you manage to get a 2000 bc win since you think you've figured out the trick? I thought of something I want to try tonight...

He's onto something, folks. Let's see, a map with a small land mass, and one quecha taking out civs as fast as possible. That's my guess. :P

Archers are tough now. I've had many fights where the odds were in my favor and archers pulled it off.

That's a good game!

Thanks for the tip about turning the barbs off, Orca. I didn't know that. That would have taken many turns off my last game if I didn't have to stop and fight them off. I'm in agreement about the five civs being easier too. 200 AD is a nice game. I kind of figured to win you'd have to...

That makes sense. But I think there might be another twist that hasn't been mentioned. I'm trying it out now to see if it gets me anywhere close to a respectable finish date. Something else: I wonder if more civs are better or worse. I played one game vs 5 other civs and so far they each...

That's what I was looking for. Thanks.

Thanks for taking the time to check out the save file. It seems like there's a certain sequence of events that takes place every game where a Civ like Greece or Mali is a few techs behind me and then in about 200 years passes me because I've made the wrong moves. I should probably go for...

I'm glad that my posts about this--the passive AI--have paid off. ;)

It's 1748, prince level, standard map, vs 4 other civs. I'm hovering right around #2. I'm at war with Greece and Rome (they just declared about 10 turns ago) but I'm not too worried because their initial assault was turned back pretty easily. I'll include the save game file and I would really...

You don't?! Son of a...