As a rule when do you generally prefer to start your first war of conquest?
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Varies wildly, for me. I've played peaceful culture games where I never conquered anyone. I've also played Scythia games where I declare war on the first person I meet within 10 turns of meeting them.
The decision points for me are:
1) Do I plan on conquering, or is this going to be a peaceful game? If I'm planning a peaceful game, I might not plan on DoWing anybody ever.
2) Is there a nearby civ I'm going to have to fight anyway? Sometimes I'm so close to an enemy I know I'll run into conflicts eventually. In this case, ancient or classical is probably the time to beat them up.
3) If I'm planning to win a domination victory but nobody is an obvious early-game target, then probably I'll fight my first war in the Industrial era after getting production cities up.
The decision points for me are:
1) Do I plan on conquering, or is this going to be a peaceful game? If I'm planning a peaceful game, I might not plan on DoWing anybody ever.
2) Is there a nearby civ I'm going to have to fight anyway? Sometimes I'm so close to an enemy I know I'll run into conflicts eventually. In this case, ancient or classical is probably the time to beat them up.
3) If I'm planning to win a domination victory but nobody is an obvious early-game target, then probably I'll fight my first war in the Industrial era after getting production cities up.
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Immortal/Deity.
Ancient if I have no Iron (Spearmen/Archers/Heavy Chariots) otherwise Classical (Swordsmen/Archers). I play on continents map and try to eliminate all enemy on my land mass.
Warmongering penalties after classical are too high after that.
Warmongering penalties after classical are too high after that.
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0-3 before you conquer your first. It just depends on how far away the nearest guy is and how annoying the terrain is going to make it to get to them. The goal is 10-15 citys by t100.
ZERO to three? Do you occasionally walk around with your one Warrior and start a war before founding your first city? That's bold!
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Your not that stupid.
If I notice undefended settler I declare war even with single warrior in first few rounds - AI is so poor in combat it cant even kill it, and by the time it mounts serious attack I have two cities and 2 war carts (I play mostly as Gilgamesh). But usually scout-warcart-warcart-settler and declare war after founding 2nd city.
I don't play on the higher difficulties (average is Prince, which is up from my old average of sandbox playing on Chieftan 
), but it varies. I like building in my games, but if people declare war on me I will rightfully punish them by taking a minimum of a single city. This then annoys them because "I occupy one of their cities" and the cycle tends to repeat itself. It's a good way to not accrue as much of a warmongering penalty.
), but it varies. I like building in my games, but if people declare war on me I will rightfully punish them by taking a minimum of a single city. This then annoys them because "I occupy one of their cities" and the cycle tends to repeat itself. It's a good way to not accrue as much of a warmongering penalty.
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When I meet them.
I play on Emperor, large maps, normal speed, with a random civ. No mods as yet.
I guess not, but who am I to decide. No humour allowed. Incidentally, "You're".
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