doveni
Chieftain
Immortal,
continents,
standard speed,
8 players
Got a low production start at the center of the continent.
I didn't bother to improve luxuries, all I did is pumping out Jaguars. Built just a monument in between. Not even a worker built, since there was no hammer tile arround.
I researched animal husbandary just to reveal one horse tile near my capitol.
Beelined mathematics for the catapult in order to rush Maria Theresa on the south.
Until first catapult was built my Jaguars practised on barbs, so I almost completed the honour tree (missed the last policy).
When the first catapult was on hard build, I gold rushed another one. With 2 catapults and 6 Jaguars I launched an attack on Maria Theresa.
The attack was a success and by the turn 68 I have conquered a civ with 2 World wonders: Great Library and Statue of Zeus.
Now the question is: is it better to build 2 cities and have NC by the turn 68 or to rush your neigbour?
Ok, I could have shaved of up to 10 turns if I had decent production start at least, but it would reflect on NC build anyway.
Later on I upgraded Jaguars into swordsmen and launched an attack on Iroquese on north. It was the same scenario as with Maria. One city with 2 wonders which I distroyed fairly easy.
Now with clear continent (the rest 5 civs were on the other continent) I started to populate it with ICS strategy, adopting key Liberty policies (free worker, trade route happyness, and -33% culture needed for policies).
I have annexed both capitols I have conquered and built like 12-13 cities myself (16 cities in all), only to find out that civs on other continent outteched me for like 12 techs. Sejong and Pacal were tech whores, while Alexandar started to steal city states from me, so I lost my happyness balance.
At that point it was pretty much lost game imho.
BTW: I didn't have time to bother with religion which could have helped me to contain happy balance more efficently.
Any comments, please?
continents,
standard speed,
8 players
Got a low production start at the center of the continent.
I didn't bother to improve luxuries, all I did is pumping out Jaguars. Built just a monument in between. Not even a worker built, since there was no hammer tile arround.
I researched animal husbandary just to reveal one horse tile near my capitol.
Beelined mathematics for the catapult in order to rush Maria Theresa on the south.
Until first catapult was built my Jaguars practised on barbs, so I almost completed the honour tree (missed the last policy).
When the first catapult was on hard build, I gold rushed another one. With 2 catapults and 6 Jaguars I launched an attack on Maria Theresa.
The attack was a success and by the turn 68 I have conquered a civ with 2 World wonders: Great Library and Statue of Zeus.
Now the question is: is it better to build 2 cities and have NC by the turn 68 or to rush your neigbour?
Ok, I could have shaved of up to 10 turns if I had decent production start at least, but it would reflect on NC build anyway.
Later on I upgraded Jaguars into swordsmen and launched an attack on Iroquese on north. It was the same scenario as with Maria. One city with 2 wonders which I distroyed fairly easy.
Now with clear continent (the rest 5 civs were on the other continent) I started to populate it with ICS strategy, adopting key Liberty policies (free worker, trade route happyness, and -33% culture needed for policies).
I have annexed both capitols I have conquered and built like 12-13 cities myself (16 cities in all), only to find out that civs on other continent outteched me for like 12 techs. Sejong and Pacal were tech whores, while Alexandar started to steal city states from me, so I lost my happyness balance.
At that point it was pretty much lost game imho.
BTW: I didn't have time to bother with religion which could have helped me to contain happy balance more efficently.
Any comments, please?
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