1.16 Arab UHV Guide

[GuitarDemon]

I may have to give this strategy a try next time. I’ve been trying to complete the UHVs on emperor difficulty and I’ve lost Arabs twice. Both too far in tech and military

A strategy I’ve been doing for workers is stealing workers from Byzantium that work the resource above Damascus. Destroy the improvements and get peace, then declare war capture more of them when they come to improve again. Last game I grabbed a ridiculous amount of workers so my cities could concentrate on other things.

However, I left Persia for the Turks and now I feel like that was a mistake. I like the vassal and controlling their research idea would make their doom stacks easier to manage

 

[Dracosolon]

Is the UHV significantly impacted by Ottomans spawning automatically if the human player has cities there?

 

[GuitarDemon]

Is the UHV significantly impacted by Ottomans spawning automatically if the human player has cities there?

In my opinion no. However ottomans are usually aggressive and want to take Mesopotamia so they have a high likelihood of attacking.

In my last game they never spawned but then Byzantium grew to be tech leader and beat me by one tech

On harder difficulties I think it’s better to let Byzantium get destroyed and delcare war on them if ottomans are at war, that way you’d on good terms with them. I think I did that one time and ottomans still attacked even with pleased disposition, be wary