Anybody else still playing 1000ad scenario (BtS) ?

[a254052656]

Trying to complete it with every Civ on Noble. Think I've done it with everyone apart from Mali but doing it again after a year of not playing. I think Byzantines are the easiest. Holy Romans are easy aswell once you work out how few units Russia starts with and attack immediately at the beginning. Had a few restarts with them. Currently playing France

 

[Trout]

I guess the answer to your question is no, or not too many. I can feel your pain in that I am in love with the Earth 18 scenario. There are alot of very old articles/posts on the Forum about both of the scenarios, but now the Forum is mostly posts about Deity level play on BTS. If you ever do play Earth 18, the most interesting civs to play are definitely the european ones. Although the head-scratcher for me is that it is well known how Julius Caesar can really dominate on that map with his starting position, UU, and traits. But I can find almost nobody to speak to the domination that Louis XIV has as well. Louis' BFC for Paris is the best on the map and he can do a straight chariot rush to take out Spain, Rome, Germany right out of the starting blocks. He also has marble and stone in his BFC, so with Industrious, he can build any Wonder he wants at almost triple speed after his half-price forges become available.

 

[a254052656]

what advantages does the AI get on Deity ? I read somewhere from Prince onwards the AI doesn't get smarter, it just gets cheaper research and units.

I prefer the 1000ad to the Earth 18 because it seems to provide something closer to what happened in history (buddhism being founded in Spain)

 

[Lazteuq]

The AI is still stupid, even on Deity. However, they get ridiculous research and production bonuses. On higher levels, AIs also naturally start with a small diplomacy modifier against you, and they are more aggressive with war. There is a chart of all the bonuses, but I don't know where it is.

If you actually want to play against a harder AI, get Better AI, or K-Mod.

On 1000AD, they set some of the civs on easier difficulties for fairness. Otherwise, France and England would suffer while countries with lots of land like China, Russia, Mongols would do too well. I guess thats the biggest problem with civ scenarios: success is too much based on land area.