Not a deity games lover, but what could be fun in warlord game? Maybe challenging
WastinTime for getting the fastest culture defeat
Alas, this cool idea came to my mind after I have loaded a deity save, so I just made a bloodbath for AIs as a revenge for botm192.
Connected horses with second city, expanded to 4. Teched mining then to alpha via ah. Traded techs then rushed the dutch with warchars, eliminated them in 100bc. After conquering the dutch it is time to develop the cities for paralleled tech run with Mansa. Focused on getting GL (imo, best wonder considering deity/small/Mansa), so after alpha teched to literature, music for free ga then run to education). In the meanwhile got optics and met guys from another hemisphere in 700ad. Zara was weak and unadvanced, Mao and Peri were strong, but palpably behind us in techs. On other hand Mansa was advanced as much as me, but my scouts saw that he wasted tons of macemen and 2 generals to conquer minor civ on north. Because of that he connected horses unjustifiedly late and his army mainly consisted of macemen and crossbowmen with very few knights. I got steel via liber in 800 ad, chopped remaining forests and slaved some citizen to get cannon stack asap. I hit him before he could properly defend himself from cannons. Warchars were still amazing even at this point because they do not only confidently finish lbows/macemen/muskets damaged by cannons but also are perfect for hunting down unguarded/undamaged by collateral malinese catapults. Mansa was helpless, I crushed his stack in field with almost no casualties and took his cities one by one. Malinese were completely annihilated at 1370 using cannons and riflemen. few turns before I got assembly line...
During Mali war Zara declared on me, so he should be a next victim. But he has unexpectedly powerfull fleet and my first 2 galleons with cargo were sunk
After I brought reinforcement and took one of his cities Mao vassalized him and declared on me. When I was 1 turn from taking Zara's cap, the AP resolution to make peace with Mao was passed. I was sloppy and voted no instead of defy.
It was a quite disappointing moment, Zara was no problem at all, Mao has only riflemen and neither chemistry nor steampower while I had infantries and was on the way to artillery. Now I have options either to waste 10 turns waiting treaty to expire or invade greeks which were slightly more advanced (had Railroad) and productive then Mao. Peri like Mao has no horses, thus has riflemen-based army. I declared on him on 1430 and started golden age using ga from music. Bigger stack has taken his city while smaller stack was eliminated, but he wasted all his few cannons on that. He came to retake his city with 25 riflemen while I had about 10 infantries inside + some cavarly and cannons. He did not dare to attack, he just moved around his former city, so in 3 turns his stack was completely eliminated. My galleons easily evaded greek frigates thank to circumnavigation bonus, but on third turn of invasion he got combustion, immediately upgraded to destroyers and on next turn my entire fleet has been wiped out. All my further attempts to sneakily send reinforcements were unsuccessful. Luckily I've landed enough to keep pressure on him and take 4 out of his 7 cities including the middle one. Then I ceased fire (he was still pleased to me after losing half of his empire, lol), sent some reinforcements and finished him. He has already some infantries, but it was too late for him. Conquering entire greek's continent was enough for domination victory.
. Pericles built the Apollo program and in the end he pushed for a cultural victory but he never came close.
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Then there's the game-breaking way that I found, and our SG team polished for great success in SGotM 25.
to his new slave vassal.
How do you force/induce the AI to form colonies?
Peri could have been a real problem if he'd turned his attention to me.
