Ronald
Emperor
This is the first GOTM i am playing. My game plan is cultural victory since I don't have enough time and patience for milking the game.
I want to build as many cities as quick as possible, very close together, rushing the cheap temples in all of them, get warrier code fast, producing archers, and settlers.
This strategy works nicely on Monarch level, so it should be fine in warlord as well.
It turned out quite well, the Babylonians lost a city very early, the Persians one somewhat later. I am having 10+ cities, the Babylonians only two and Persia 4. Researched horseback riding, changed my building sequence to horsmen and settlers the continent is mine.
Now i'm trying to get one of my ships across to where the other civs should be. The third one survived. Now I'm having contact with everyone else.
My continent is filled with cities spaced either one ot two tiles apart, everyone has a temple. Now its time to switch to Republic (3 luxuries should be enough on warlord and small cities). I'm keeping research to a minimum and buying libraries, cathedrals and collosseums whatever I can afford.
The damned Zulus land on my continent and declare war at me. This actually turns out to be very nice. I get an alliance with China and Japan, they do all the fighting, my second war elephant wins a battle - golden age
The English join the Zulus and declare war against me, Germany is coming to help me out against the English - they never made it across to land on my continent.
I keep buying cultural improvements, the cultural victory should be only a question of time.
I make peace treaties with everyone, the Japanese destroy the Zulus.
Finally I trigger a cultural victory in 1758AD. Probably it won't be the fastest, but I should be not too far off.
A very entertaining GOTM - Thanks Matrix
The Japa
I want to build as many cities as quick as possible, very close together, rushing the cheap temples in all of them, get warrier code fast, producing archers, and settlers.
This strategy works nicely on Monarch level, so it should be fine in warlord as well.
It turned out quite well, the Babylonians lost a city very early, the Persians one somewhat later. I am having 10+ cities, the Babylonians only two and Persia 4. Researched horseback riding, changed my building sequence to horsmen and settlers the continent is mine.
Now i'm trying to get one of my ships across to where the other civs should be. The third one survived. Now I'm having contact with everyone else.
My continent is filled with cities spaced either one ot two tiles apart, everyone has a temple. Now its time to switch to Republic (3 luxuries should be enough on warlord and small cities). I'm keeping research to a minimum and buying libraries, cathedrals and collosseums whatever I can afford.
The damned Zulus land on my continent and declare war at me. This actually turns out to be very nice. I get an alliance with China and Japan, they do all the fighting, my second war elephant wins a battle - golden age
The English join the Zulus and declare war against me, Germany is coming to help me out against the English - they never made it across to land on my continent.
I keep buying cultural improvements, the cultural victory should be only a question of time.
I make peace treaties with everyone, the Japanese destroy the Zulus.
Finally I trigger a cultural victory in 1758AD. Probably it won't be the fastest, but I should be not too far off.
A very entertaining GOTM - Thanks Matrix
The Japa