Hi! I've been on a long break from playing civ4, due to lots of stuff going on (moving home, new job, etc). I reached a point where I was comfortable at prince but never had an easy time on monarch. Well the other day I rolled my first start in six months with Sury, (Monarch/Epic/Fractal) and actually found it really easy!
The actual starting spot for my capital was quite poor but an early rush on my neighbour Ramses II (who had 2 golds in Thebes) helped me in the early game, I normally struggle with warring but in this game I had little problem conquering my other neighbours despite bieng roughly equal in power and with a marginal lead in tech.
I could have wrapped things up a lot earlier with a dom win but wanted to play through the whole tech tree this being my first game in ages and won with a space win in 1952 (my earliest space win on any difficulty).
I don't feel I played a particularly tight game, in fact pretty sloppy in some places.
So I guess my question is... was this a particularly easy map? or have I conquered monarch?
I don't appear to have the starting save, but here's one from 395BC and the winning save from 1952AD.
The actual starting spot for my capital was quite poor but an early rush on my neighbour Ramses II (who had 2 golds in Thebes) helped me in the early game, I normally struggle with warring but in this game I had little problem conquering my other neighbours despite bieng roughly equal in power and with a marginal lead in tech.
I could have wrapped things up a lot earlier with a dom win but wanted to play through the whole tech tree this being my first game in ages and won with a space win in 1952 (my earliest space win on any difficulty).
I don't feel I played a particularly tight game, in fact pretty sloppy in some places.
So I guess my question is... was this a particularly easy map? or have I conquered monarch?
I don't appear to have the starting save, but here's one from 395BC and the winning save from 1952AD.