Recent content by Solyaris

Well, you cant always win on deity, but with a bit of experience you can win maybe 60-70% of the maps. Long term planing is key. Except for cultural/religious victory you have to go to war at some point. On immortal and below horse-archer rush is nice, but on deity is too much of a risk...

Failed miserably with a jaguar war, ended up retiring in the BCs. O'well, cant win every time =)

Played the Deity map Domination victory in 1340 AD. Justinian was killed by Saladin in the BCs. Conquered all of Saladin and about half of Montezuma before he got rifles. Just had to settle a few cities to get over 68% land mas (which was good, since I doubt I would have any chance against...

Not the easiest Deity map, but somehow managed to squeeze out a victory in the end=) Pre 1AD: SIP. Expanded to 2 cites before the first barb wave. Neither lucky nor unlucky with barb fights, but due to the sher amount of barbs they killed all my fog-busters. Did manage to whip out some archers...

Generous starting area and one of the best leaders, immortal is never easy but this should play out as emperor as long as we dont start with Shaka and Ragnar as nearest neighbours =)

Always wanted to try an extremely high reward/high risk play in the form of a warrior rush, and thought this would be the perfect map due to many AI and prince difficulty. Killed the romans early with 4 warriors and gain the capital+an improved fish, 2nd killed the french with 4 warriors (one...

If you are really lucky jungle spreads to the wet rice before you can improve it;)

Can finally add a deity BTS win, nice! Had one vanilla deity win from before (GOTM about a year ago), but have never beaten BTS deity! Gotta say tho, with that amazing start and no barbs, it didnt feel like deity but more like a slightly harder immortal game. Early techs where Fishing ->...

Everything in this game whent wrong so I gave up! The start was good, no issues with barbs, early decided to go for HA war against wilhelm (perfect target, close by and good lands). The turn before I was to settle a nice horse/gem city the Korean settled a city 2 tiles away from the horses...

Pericles as he built the AP. Total votes around 950, I got about 750 votes (Pericles voted for himself, 2 AIs abstained). Didn't have to go to war to get the votes needed, I did however get alot of +1/2/3 you've shared techologies with us (techologies for gold/map trades). If Khmer had been my...

Fun game and nice map! Thought I would go by the usual; ASAP to military tradition, get 60% of the map covered and then go space, what could possibly go wrong? Got many trades and quickly raced trought the techtree due to the large amount of friendly AI's (most where hindu as Khmer shared it...

Very late (1500 something) diplomatic vicotory. Was heading for space, and probably would have gotten a decent date, but due to exams I had to rush for something easy, so diplomatic it is =) 170k points

You can always rush with horse-archers ;) Took all but 1 of Mongolian empire to the north (4 VERY decent cities), and @ 1 AD had taken 3/7 cities of the Russian empire (including capital). His capital had pyramids, Partheon, ToA, stonehenge, 1 settled GP and one of his other cities had the...

Killed all 3 AI's and kept all but some badly placed cities. 18 in total. Ofcause wrecked my economy, but got currency/iron working/calendar, so shouln't go into strike. No religion, but at least I got the great lighthouse for some much needed gold. Will probably research CoL then tripple-bulb...

I did play untill liberaism before I had to go abroad for 5 days. Will come with an update later tonight or tomorrow. My main issue now is how big army I need and whom to attack (several possibilities)