Advice on an unusual game

[madscientist]

A good example of the importance of diplomacy!!!

p.s., you could've farmed the floodplains in one or more cities and used whip-driven expansion. early construction would've been all you needed to go on the rampage once you got ivory hooked up.

Yep, you are exactly correct. I chose the path of very fast and early teching whch obviously was a poor choice.

I also needed HB in addition to construction for the war elephants though (BTS change).

 

[futurehermit]

ah yes stupid hbr i always forget about that. regardless though it's not an overly pricy tech.

 

[madscientist]

ah yes stupid hbr i always forget about that. regardless though it's not an overly pricy tech.

Yes, it was cheap and I did not have the cities set up to take advantage of it. I also delayed agriculture until very late. Chalk it up to experience, Wang is build for turltling and I should have just clammed up with the 5 cities and been nicer diplomatically.

 

[futurehermit]

i guess in retrospect you could've tried to squeeze in a 6th city to open up all the different national wonders (esp GT) and just tried to power tech your way toward drafting rifles or something like that. yeah, a good learning experience though.