Banging head against the wall.

[DaveMcW]

Don't build barracks.*

*until you have a city dedicated to building military for the rest of the game.

 

[Game-God]

I have never seen a reset of what the AI will or will not be doing in any of my games. So I thought of the option and figured that if he is trying to make the game something different he will have to set that option to on. Everytime I play an old savegame they(AI) always do the same things, again and again and again. But if you think it works great!

btw. The reload option does not say anything about being "ONLY" for regen map configurations, so I assumed it ment anytime you play the game from an old save point, or just regen the map after the start. I was going by what is stated when you mouse-over the text for that option.

 

[Skallagrimson]

Don't build barracks.*

*until you are ready to invade someone

The way I do it is: fighting off barbarians = barracks (school of hard knocks over the barbs' heads)

...UNTIL you no longer get barb attacks, etc., and you want city defenders or an invasion force to have some modicum of ability to survive.