Archipelagos

[ButSam]

I decided to play Monarch recently, and got whooped...I need to step down a difficulty level to get readjusted to the game after a month and a half away. I decided I'd do something I'm not AT ALL accustomed to--an Archipelagos map to make me learn how to better manage my navy since I know I can win on Regent on other maps.

What tips do you have (especially for research, but also on all areas) on ANY difficultly level for a navy? Version 1.21f, by the way...no restarting, no cultural starting together, huge map, all civs)

Sam

 

[-proletarian-]

I hardly ever play archipelago maps. I don't like the way that the maps are generated on this setting, the islands are all spindly instead of being a nice round or ovoid shape......

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Ah.... I#m frustrated with Archipelago, too, especially because research is so coupled to empire size, so if you have a small starting pos island you end up ****ed...... Choose a civ that gets to Map Maling fast (i.e. that has Alphabet or Pottery as a staring tech), beeline ofr it, then build lots of Galley and settlers. Rush temples when you put your Galleys at risk, for unknown reasons it makes them less prone to sinking....

After that, it is pretty obvious what to do: go for the wonders that aren't continent dependend, build lots of ships, block choke points, invade whenever you have an advantage in defence, always bring overwhelming force. Be agressive, get the most land.... and plan FP location carefully!

 

[dreadknought]

Well I always modify my ships with extra hitpoints bombard range and movement which means on that map they would kick a.. so you might wont to try that. I also raise the shied cost alot to though.

 

[God]

Whenever I play with archipalego maps especially 60% water, I always get this wierd spindly broken pangea like map.

Rarely ever get some large islands.