Donderwolkje01
Chieftain
- Joined
- Jun 13, 2005
- Messages
- 49
Before BTS i would my lvl of play was on Noble. I could stay ahead, barely, had glorious wars. and winning a game was a chalenge but i could win.
On BTS on Noble (not the aggressive AI), everyone out-techs me, they landgrab before me often leaving me without the recources to build the units to defend myself and then they start ganging up on me. and I have no chance of survival. I am smaller thene everyone else, have no techs to bribe neighbours with, have an obsolete army that just serves for protecting my cities.
So i dropped to warlord. It's no fun. the game cheats in my favor and i don't like that feeling. and winning isn't fun.
why is Noble more difficult? what can i do to make it easier? I do try to avoid the ICS, to landgrab to much, try to match my religion to my neighbours, try to specialize my cities, try to beeline for the strategical techs.
In my last Noble game i tried an advanced start. i shared a continent with the vikings and dutch. well the dutch were blocked by a mountain. everyone had 5-8 cities. i had 5. so i quickly build an army and take over the vikings. Once that worked i had an empire twice the size but i still was 2/3 down the ranking. so sitting bull declares war, he comes with 8 frigates and 4 galleons and drops next to a city, by the time i get there with my armies he had already taken the city and i need to fight to get it back. that happens a few times, the agustus does the same and ramses as well. popping SoD on opposite sides of my continent, and i never have enough time to get there to defend so i lose the cities and need to take them back. meanwhile i'm beelining to get frigates as well and airships to see where these stacks are coming from to move my troops faster to the correct location. by the time i build my 10th frigate Sitting Bull is already there with destroyers. I was still researching railroads. (to be able to defend and move troops to where needed).
should i try to play aggresive Ai (so they spend "even" more on troops) and neglect science a bit? That's seems my problem. i can't tech as fast as they do.
sorry for this rant
On BTS on Noble (not the aggressive AI), everyone out-techs me, they landgrab before me often leaving me without the recources to build the units to defend myself and then they start ganging up on me. and I have no chance of survival. I am smaller thene everyone else, have no techs to bribe neighbours with, have an obsolete army that just serves for protecting my cities.
So i dropped to warlord. It's no fun. the game cheats in my favor and i don't like that feeling. and winning isn't fun.
why is Noble more difficult? what can i do to make it easier? I do try to avoid the ICS, to landgrab to much, try to match my religion to my neighbours, try to specialize my cities, try to beeline for the strategical techs.
In my last Noble game i tried an advanced start. i shared a continent with the vikings and dutch. well the dutch were blocked by a mountain. everyone had 5-8 cities. i had 5. so i quickly build an army and take over the vikings. Once that worked i had an empire twice the size but i still was 2/3 down the ranking. so sitting bull declares war, he comes with 8 frigates and 4 galleons and drops next to a city, by the time i get there with my armies he had already taken the city and i need to fight to get it back. that happens a few times, the agustus does the same and ramses as well. popping SoD on opposite sides of my continent, and i never have enough time to get there to defend so i lose the cities and need to take them back. meanwhile i'm beelining to get frigates as well and airships to see where these stacks are coming from to move my troops faster to the correct location. by the time i build my 10th frigate Sitting Bull is already there with destroyers. I was still researching railroads. (to be able to defend and move troops to where needed).
should i try to play aggresive Ai (so they spend "even" more on troops) and neglect science a bit? That's seems my problem. i can't tech as fast as they do.
sorry for this rant
