docceh
Iron Maiden Fan!
In my current game.... (Tiny Map, Germans, Regent) I have utilised a different strategy that I have been thinking about.
I started land grabber (reasonably though) and have concentrated on culture and sciene. I only built one spearman/pikeman/etc in each city as defence and once I got republic, started churning out the techs. All was well, I had a huge cultural lead (and I mean 10 wonders in Berlin) and was gobbling up the odd enemy city.
Once I got Espionage, I planted a spy in the others Civs (Babylon who were still early Middle Ages!) and Zulu (how were 5 techs behind me). The english spy was alsways caught and since i had loadsa money, and a fresh save before hand ... I tried over and over until the english declared war. I thought I was up the creek, but we shared a small border.
I immediately built knioghts and cavalry and made a MPP with the Zulu and Babylonians. I waitied for the English attack. They attacked my city and were anhililated! It was Everyone versus the English now! Since I spent so much time on making good cities, I had 6 that could pump out a knigh every 5 turns and had a big enough army pretty quickly. I attacked the english and they were getting pummeled! I didn't loose one unit, after started with 1 defender per city right uptil espionage ... I then became a major world military power. The english are gone, I have a monjjopoly on resources, I am almost in the Modern age while the other to civs are still Middle Ages!
I was considering a reload once the english declared war but I now have 2000+ gold! I can put it down to luck I think but the tactic may be sound.
-docceh
I started land grabber (reasonably though) and have concentrated on culture and sciene. I only built one spearman/pikeman/etc in each city as defence and once I got republic, started churning out the techs. All was well, I had a huge cultural lead (and I mean 10 wonders in Berlin) and was gobbling up the odd enemy city.
Once I got Espionage, I planted a spy in the others Civs (Babylon who were still early Middle Ages!) and Zulu (how were 5 techs behind me). The english spy was alsways caught and since i had loadsa money, and a fresh save before hand ... I tried over and over until the english declared war. I thought I was up the creek, but we shared a small border.
I immediately built knioghts and cavalry and made a MPP with the Zulu and Babylonians. I waitied for the English attack. They attacked my city and were anhililated! It was Everyone versus the English now! Since I spent so much time on making good cities, I had 6 that could pump out a knigh every 5 turns and had a big enough army pretty quickly. I attacked the english and they were getting pummeled! I didn't loose one unit, after started with 1 defender per city right uptil espionage ... I then became a major world military power. The english are gone, I have a monjjopoly on resources, I am almost in the Modern age while the other to civs are still Middle Ages!
I was considering a reload once the english declared war but I now have 2000+ gold! I can put it down to luck I think but the tactic may be sound.
-docceh