Insuable
Chieftain
This may really be nothing new, but for my style of play, it has worked again and again.
It requires you to be facing an enemy on your continent with common borders, and you wish to be the agressor. Let me go over this by example:
I am playing in the middle ages (Actually I'm just about to enter industrial). I have Cavalry/Musketmen whilst my neighbor (zulu) has Knights/Pikemen with a few musketmen thrown in. I wish to take advantage of this in a manner in which I can do maximum damage over a small enough amount of turns so that they cannot catch up on tech.
I have two border cities, in which I stack 6 cavalry and 3 musketmen each. I declare war and take three spare cavalry in an attack on whatever city is closest. Hopefully you take it an raze it, if not then go ahead and retreat with your remaining units. You have stirred the hornets nest...
One or two turns late here comes the zulu army with their imps and knights. They attack in force upong your two well defended cities. The Knights attack - many fall dead or retreat badly wounded. I have lost some musketmen but they have inflicted much more damage than they have taken. Now it's my turn - the cavalry charges out of my cities and runs down the wounded Knights and Imps - now that I have done my damage the cavalry retreats back into the cities to heal.
They send a second wave with results similar to the first... with luck the zulu have lost the bulk of their army while your attacking force is still entirely intact!!!
Now I charge out of my cities, and go after their 3 or 4 largest, including the captiol, which I generally raze but may take if useful... I loose some units but I have just ripped the heart out of my neighbor. I can get peace on my terms and take pieces of the zulu empire almost at will. They will never catch up economically or technologically, and with my continued military/economic strength their land is mine whenever I wish!
This worked great with the Aztecs on the other side of my civ as well. Granted, this is a Warlord level game (so getting a tech lead is feasible) - but this worked so well for taking over my continent that I decided to post it.
Simple: Let the enemy impale themselves on your defense, then move with lightning speed into their rear area and raise hell! A civ with its biggest and most powerful cities destroyed/captured will never catch up...
Joe
What's everyone think?
It requires you to be facing an enemy on your continent with common borders, and you wish to be the agressor. Let me go over this by example:
I am playing in the middle ages (Actually I'm just about to enter industrial). I have Cavalry/Musketmen whilst my neighbor (zulu) has Knights/Pikemen with a few musketmen thrown in. I wish to take advantage of this in a manner in which I can do maximum damage over a small enough amount of turns so that they cannot catch up on tech.
I have two border cities, in which I stack 6 cavalry and 3 musketmen each. I declare war and take three spare cavalry in an attack on whatever city is closest. Hopefully you take it an raze it, if not then go ahead and retreat with your remaining units. You have stirred the hornets nest...
One or two turns late here comes the zulu army with their imps and knights. They attack in force upong your two well defended cities. The Knights attack - many fall dead or retreat badly wounded. I have lost some musketmen but they have inflicted much more damage than they have taken. Now it's my turn - the cavalry charges out of my cities and runs down the wounded Knights and Imps - now that I have done my damage the cavalry retreats back into the cities to heal.
They send a second wave with results similar to the first... with luck the zulu have lost the bulk of their army while your attacking force is still entirely intact!!!
Now I charge out of my cities, and go after their 3 or 4 largest, including the captiol, which I generally raze but may take if useful... I loose some units but I have just ripped the heart out of my neighbor. I can get peace on my terms and take pieces of the zulu empire almost at will. They will never catch up economically or technologically, and with my continued military/economic strength their land is mine whenever I wish!
This worked great with the Aztecs on the other side of my civ as well. Granted, this is a Warlord level game (so getting a tech lead is feasible) - but this worked so well for taking over my continent that I decided to post it.
Simple: Let the enemy impale themselves on your defense, then move with lightning speed into their rear area and raise hell! A civ with its biggest and most powerful cities destroyed/captured will never catch up...
Joe
What's everyone think?
