Apparently all I need to do to win on Noble is to play as Willem and start in a river delta...
and then beat the crap out of Monty's axemen and archers with my macemen and catapults...
and then turn on my good buddy Qin and take out his knights and crossbowmen with my riflemen and cannons...
and then take on Pacal for no good reason whatsoever (after having bribed Suleimen with Medicine to declare war on him), and wear down his infantry and artillery with my artillery and mechanized infantry.
I was one turn away from finding out what nukes are like when I got the domination victory, in 1907. Apparently this warrants scoring me as Augustus Caesar.
This is my first game where I really started to figure out how to build improvements around my cities. I used to do things like just build cottages all over the place without really thinking about it, with the result that my cities didn't have enough food to be able to use all those spaces. This time I focused more on having spaces with 2 food on them -- not hard with all the grasslands and floodplains on the map.
I also discovered just how handy taking over cities is. I only founded six cities all game (and one doesn't really count because a barbarian axeman immediately spawned and razed it the very next turn...shame on me for only sending a warrior to defend it), but by the end I had at least 15.
There was a scary moment where Pacal, who had the AP, tried for a religious victory while I was mopping up Qin. Fortunately by that point my civ had enough influence to deny him the victory simply by abstaining. Oddly enough I never did bother to get a state religion that game. Early game, I didn't really want to piss off Monty, midgame, I didn't want the anarchy to interrupt my war effort (though given that I was warmongering I really should have gone with Theocracy at some point). Finally I just went with Free Religion to keep my citizens somewhat happy; war weariness got old after awhile.
I had a city that was my designated commerce city...so much so, in fact, that it only had 4 hammers. That made building commerce multipliers (or research multipliers) in it rather difficult. Not certain what to do there besides raze a few of the towns and put in workshops/watermills.
Anyway, victory! Next step is either to retry Noble on a larger map and with a non-Financial leader, or to bump the difficulty up a notch...
and then beat the crap out of Monty's axemen and archers with my macemen and catapults...
and then turn on my good buddy Qin and take out his knights and crossbowmen with my riflemen and cannons...
and then take on Pacal for no good reason whatsoever (after having bribed Suleimen with Medicine to declare war on him), and wear down his infantry and artillery with my artillery and mechanized infantry.
I was one turn away from finding out what nukes are like when I got the domination victory, in 1907. Apparently this warrants scoring me as Augustus Caesar.
This is my first game where I really started to figure out how to build improvements around my cities. I used to do things like just build cottages all over the place without really thinking about it, with the result that my cities didn't have enough food to be able to use all those spaces. This time I focused more on having spaces with 2 food on them -- not hard with all the grasslands and floodplains on the map.
I also discovered just how handy taking over cities is. I only founded six cities all game (and one doesn't really count because a barbarian axeman immediately spawned and razed it the very next turn...shame on me for only sending a warrior to defend it), but by the end I had at least 15.
There was a scary moment where Pacal, who had the AP, tried for a religious victory while I was mopping up Qin. Fortunately by that point my civ had enough influence to deny him the victory simply by abstaining. Oddly enough I never did bother to get a state religion that game. Early game, I didn't really want to piss off Monty, midgame, I didn't want the anarchy to interrupt my war effort (though given that I was warmongering I really should have gone with Theocracy at some point). Finally I just went with Free Religion to keep my citizens somewhat happy; war weariness got old after awhile.
I had a city that was my designated commerce city...so much so, in fact, that it only had 4 hammers. That made building commerce multipliers (or research multipliers) in it rather difficult. Not certain what to do there besides raze a few of the towns and put in workshops/watermills.
Anyway, victory! Next step is either to retry Noble on a larger map and with a non-Financial leader, or to bump the difficulty up a notch...
