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too much of a random factor. only one of the AIs got a 2nd city up in my game and it was defended by 2 warriors so i easily took that one out. im not too worried about the capital but i dont want my units to get hurt or killed on their way to the enemy. having to worry about my workers being...

left vs right puts water between, top vs bottom does not. i played top vs bottom, start anywhere. does it really makes a difference if you choose start together or start anywhere? theres no teammates to start together with anyways. no barbarians of course

team battleground is the smallest map and conquest win on these settings its all about being able to attack your enemies as soon as possible. chariot conquest seems tough. theyre just not good enough against archers. combo might be useful. start with jags and then when jags wont get to the...

i prefer waiting a bit longer to build barracks. youre not going to have any improved land to work so my guess is that getting workers out faster is the better option here. btw if you build extra workers in that time youve got to have like 10 by the time you hit IW? any forests left when you...

without commerce IW takes like 12 turns. personally i think its a small sacrifice to have your worker mine gold or gems in order to be able to start pumping out jags a few turns later. i guess having roads make this less significant so maybe youre right. on another note, nice work getting...

well you are going to want a mine on the bronze anyways. the main use of bronze is if you can get 2-3 axemen to the first city before they get so many archers up. its not uncommon to find the first city defended by only 1 archer and 2 warriors. but bronze is more of a bonus than a requirement...

bronze is perhaps not as useful as i first thought but its still pretty damn good to have. i would however chop a 2nd worker before hooking it up. if i can get 2 workers and 2 axemen before IW then thats a pretty big advantage. every turn counts :)

1300bc conquest, some minor misstakes but its pretty obvious that the best time is going to depend on how close to the ai you start and if you get lucky enough to have bronze pop up next to you. good thing about this gauntlet is that theres no need to regenerate the map for an halfhour, and if...

1500bc conquest shouldnt be impossible, i had a 800bc win despite screwing up a bit. i overestimated the AIs ability to defend and waited too long to attack. i know i could have atleast shaved off 9-10 turns if i had played properly. i did have bronze next to river so i didnt have to wait for...

simple and encourages you to attempt all vc's, especially the harder ones like cultural. thumbs up for that, but how would you rank the rest of the submitted games?

you do have a point, fluffy. although i love to compete, even if i dont win, i guess the best thing about these gauntlets is to see the different approach everyone takes. Im convinced this speeds up the learning process considerably and force you to find the flaws in your strategy if you want to...

good post bill, even if i cant believe you gave diplomatic a smaller multiplier than cultural :P if anything other than conquest wins this gauntlet i shall eat my nonexistant hat. OOC conquest sucks!!! :P

the 3560bc finish on standard is due to a map-generation bug. seems like a few hours of fun regenerating on lakes is the way to go to win this gauntlet :P regardkess, conquest does seem like the obvious vc to go for since it should by far require the smallest difference in turns compared to...

true, i forgot about perm alliances. i guess domination is possible then. if anyone manages to set up a cultural win though, i think that should be an automatic #1 spot ;)

i dont think its that bad of an idea and i cant see how theres actually 6 vc possible :P cultural and domination can be ruled out i think. cant imagine anyone getting small enough landmass to win on domination with occ. im guessing score is out too since youre not very likely to achieve score...