Recent content by NineOneSix

In real life you don't get the option to refuse when a woman decides to give you Drama!

At lower difficulty levels and when pursuing a non-military victory condition priests are nice for all the reasons you mention. At higher levels there are more important things to focus on than religion founding and spreading, hence you find most people on these forums avoiding that path. Its...

Also by accumulating the gold to research your next tech at 100% slider, an AI might get it while you wait. This can give you a bonus % when research is turned back on. Always nice to see when it happens. (Unless its music or lib of course! :o )

Look for the deity bismarck series by imploading on youtube A good example of an emergent culture victory strategy based on the map and leader. The interesting thing about this one is that the decision to go culture happened further into the game, way past 20-25 turns, but still makes sense.

Some general thoughts without looking at the save, considering what you have described. Low sea level means a ton of land so it can be hard to fogbust, esp if you have standard number of AI opponents. Makes deity very difficult since you can't afford to REx, heaps of fog-o-war, and AI might not...

Well that sounds a bit rough for monarch difficulty. Considering you know the opposition and the map already perhaps use world builder on turn 1 to get rid of the extra units and tech that the AI is not supposed to have? On monarch they are supposed to have a free archer and a worker if I recall...

Bump!

I stand corrected. Silly of me to type a fast and sloppy answer :nono: Love this game with all its ifs, thens and buts.

Mansa Musa will trade anything (for the right price). No other AI does this so every other AI would have been unwilling to trade at this point. You do have a shot at building it but as you said, chops will be necessary to beat the deity bonuses.

Regarding 6), I'm not sure you can get Hammy to convert. Every city on the screen has Hindu. Maybe with a bribe he will switch, but for a start is he pleased with you to even make that possible? It would be a shame to waste hammers on 4 missionaries and dump them into an AI without getting the...

Thats what I was thinking too. Acceptable to have weaker chops from the western forest tiles and the Ghill could have a hidden resource. Did you move 1E in your play through?

Good, the Incan civ needs all the help it can get :bowdown:

I agree with you Sampsa that Vijayjay actually is a good city site, but I was trying to point out that it was not needed for the HA rush. As you have shown in your shadow game. Also you showed that continuing conquest with horsies was a good strategy. I tend to play epic speed, large maps on...

Good example of construction rush as a pre-determined focus. But you must have gone with AH fairly early if you chose Bombay as second city and therefore discovered horses there. At that point in the game and having use of two gold hills I would have beelined HBR immediately for a HA rush, if...

Funnily enough, the one time I played Sury my neighbour was Genghis Khan. He sent a number of stacks at me that were at least 50% keshik. My ballista elephants became super promoted which was quite beneficial when I started taking his cities. 3 cheers for ballista elephants! Is useful unit :pat...