A Phoenicia Game

[youtien]

No need of palace trick, 5 turns is a long time, even 1 turn is precious. Maybe 1N of Sur, but Sur can do too. Let Kition build settler right away, Capital grow and buy axemen, rush Greeks or Egyptians(hard if they got archers, but you can pillage and destroy their hope). With Athens you can build the Oracle at 2x speed.

Only research math, with catapults you don't need barracks. Build 2-3 spies and steal tech from Rome, that will be enough for UHV.

 

[Fresol]

Rushing Greece is a different story, I did it in one game posted in your Paragon Strategy thread. Not all games rely on early rushes, though arguebly it's the best because of snowball effect.

While playing these games, I keep in mind that they're strategy guides, which means they should be about each civilization's unique gameplay, rather than generic abuse of game mechanics. Also these games are on Regent so I don't really have to do that most of the time.

The lack of use of spies in my games is another issue. Spies and espionage is rather powerful, especially on higher difficulty levels where beakers are worth less. Maybe I should try to introduce that element into my games.

 

[calad]

So who founded cities in Hispania or were they auto-founded?

 

[Fresol]

Rome, I suppose. Can't check the file right now.

 

[Panopticon]

Rushing Greece is a different story, I did it in one game posted in your Paragon Strategy thread. Not all games rely on early rushes, though arguebly it's the best because of snowball effect.

While playing these games, I keep in mind that they're strategy guides, which means they should be about each civilization's unique gameplay, rather than generic abuse of game mechanics. Also these games are on Regent so I don't really have to do that most of the time.

The lack of use of spies in my games is another issue. Spies and espionage is rather powerful, especially on higher difficulty levels where beakers are worth less. Maybe I should try to introduce that element into my games.

What is the general spy strategy? I guess this question is more for youtien and youtien's close readers.

 

[citis]

What is the general spy strategy? I guess this question is more for youtien and youtien's close readers.

Spending on spying and stealing technology is more efficient than researching. For the time being .

 

[Fresol]

Now spy points work like GG points, you can gift a city and keep doing small actions to spam Great Spies.

 

[Fresol]

So who founded cities in Hispania or were they auto-founded?

Rome founded both the cities in Iberia, I just watched the replay.

Any idea for the next civ to play(after India)?

 

[Eric Cartmenez]

Rome pleaaaaaaaaaaase

Btw, I won Phoenicia UHV not so long ago, by doing a mistake of conquering Athens with 1 warrior before settling Qart-Hadasht, thus Athens becoming my capital, yet I built The Great Cothon - Palace - The Great Lighthouse in Qart-Hadasht in time, making Barcino my war elephant training center and Athens axemen training center. Phoenicia is really fun to play.

 

[Fresol]

I don't think conquering Athens is a mistake in any sense.

The problem about settling Qart-Hadasht directly is the lack of cities. What I did in a previous game(at 1.12) is training a settler after finishing the Great Cothon. Of course that slowed down the war preparation against Rome and I faced more defending units.

Phoenicia is quite powerful, with the only weakness being expansion instability.

I'll try a Rome game after posting my India game.

 

[calad]

Rome is rather boring actually. It is like nerfed Persia: you have to conquer everybody but insane barbarians spawn everywhere and top of that you have rather strict research goals. And also you have to build useless buildings instead of more troops.