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[Birdjaguar]

Industrial looking workers show up in the last age of the Mesopotamian scenario. The game ends as soon as the seventh wonder is built 160 turns or not.

In the rise of Rome civs all have three traits!

 

[gunnerxtr]

i have won the AoD scenario on regent using the spanish

 

[HighlandWarrior]

game looks great, just got it...installing right now... how many scenarios are there on the disc?

 

[Smellincoffee]

Won Wonder victory in Mesopotamia, as the Phonecians, on Warlord diff. Got all seven wonders, victory in the Iron Age. I THINK there was a war (there was a Babylonian great leader, but I don't know which knd- they just said "Great Event".) but I'm not sure. I settled in modern Israel, the islands of the Med., and along the coast of Asia Minor and the Saudi peninsula. Interestingly enough, the capital of the Sumerian empire was never Sumer- it was Ur. (Sumeria was some pathetic town that should've flipped to Babylon)

 

[Bam-Bam]

Fun game. I chose the single-city culture route, with LOTS of sacrifices of enslaved workers. Played as the Maya. Took most of the workers from the minor tribes.

I think the single culture city route is the easiest for this scenario, and the javelin thrower's 2 defense is very nice. Here is the victory spash.

The details.

And the overall conquest scenario status.

Time to up the difficulty or take a more difficult route to victory. Being in the middle, the Maya are a natural for the blood sacrifice (lots of targets).

 

[Arathorn]

Not one of the Conquests per se, but I ran through an entire epic game as quickly a I could, to try to get a feel for some of the changes. I slummed on Emperor to make it really easy.

What made it a bit challenging was the AI's inability to connect its luxes/resources and my own extreme lack. My starting area and landgrab got me horses and eventually rubber. I ended up poaching iron and coal halfway around the world.

Was involved in 3 wars. First phony war was vs. Japan -- we each lost one unit. Second phony war against Mongols -- used a dromon to trigger my GA. Third war against Zulu -- I was tired of lack of resources and took their oil and saltpeter, with a couple of cities. Won by diplo, but space race would've been trivial, and domination with tanks against rifles or MA against infantry is child's play.

I was NOT impressed by the AI. Their workers, in particular, seemed to be perpetually behind the times. Same old attack where weak, and ignore the monster behind you problem. No major improvements there. Maybe it's always been that way -- been a while since I played emperor.

The AIs were perpetually cashpoor. They seemed much more locked into high research levels, even to the point of losing units and buildings -- I think they essentially are always using the negative science exploit -- 88% of the time I saw an AI, it was out of cash.

No SGLs, despite being the first to nearly every tech from Education on. But that means basically nothing. Got one pretty early in my second game (a probably-will-fail Sid OCC).

<Shrug> We'll see, but that's my first experience.

Arathorn

 

[andvruss]

Nothing to special. Mesopotamia conquest as the Pheonicans. Regent level. Won on turn 115 by getting all the wonders. Score: 5490

 

[Colonel Kraken]

Originally posted by Arathorn
Not one of the Conquests per se, but I ran through an entire epic game as quickly a I could, to try to get a feel for some of the changes. I slummed on Emperor to make it really easy.

Arathorn

"slummed on Emperor". I like that. Very funny.

Originally posted by andvruss
Nothing to special. Mesopotamia conquest as the Pheonicans. Regent level. Won on turn 115 by getting all the wonders. Score: 5490

Good job.

 

[Bam-Bam]

"Slummed on emperor" Yep, that fits, Arathorn. It must have been awhile, because your observations are mostly standard fare for emperor games. The AI going after weak spots ignoring the monster is still true--maybe even more so for the mesoamerican conquest--where captured workers are the fuel for the empire.

 

[andvruss]

Originally posted by Colonel Kraken






Good job.

Thank you

 

[steviejay]

I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I WANT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry, just had to vent my frustration............ has anyone tried WW2 Pacific yet? I'm really curious to hear about that one.

 

[andvruss]

Originally posted by steviejay
I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I want it, I WANT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry, just had to vent my frustration............ has anyone tried WW2 Pacific yet? I'm really curious to hear about that one.

No, sorry I haven't tried WW2 in the Pacific yet. The rise of Rome is really cool though. I love the extra hp, movement, and ability to make roads by the legions.

 

[Mano3]

I just beat the Mesopotamia Conquest last night. I played on Warlord and built 6 of the 7 wonders playing as the Sumerians. I kicked butt, but I'll have to try it again on Regent (my fovorite level) to feel really good about it.

It took over 3 hours and I scored about 4,200.

 

[andvruss]

Originally posted by Mano3
I just beat the Mesopotamia Conquest last night. I played on Warlord and built 6 of the 7 wonders playing as the Sumerians. I kicked butt, but I'll have to try it again on Regent (my fovorite level) to feel really good about it.

It took over 3 hours and I scored about 4,200.

When I played that scenario as the Phoenicans, I was kinda lazy . I managed to built all the wonders though. Got my GA right in the centre of the main wonder techs.

 

[Xen]

havent won yet, but I'm close, and I wanted to show off the mighty territory inhancieing skills of the mighty cataphract - with the exception of the Bulgar territory, as they were conqoured before I had the Cataphract tech, ALL of it was conqoured with either Cataphracts, and some left over horsemen, or only cataphracts, in conjunction with dromons used to occasionally bombard things

*note, I did change the cataphract graphics from the rider, to the ancient cav, as this is going to be happening in the next patch any way

 

[Xen]

as a side note, all the wonders built in my game so far are by me, in good ole Constantinople

 

[Gobi Bear]

Good to know Xen finally got to give the Cataphracts and Dromons a workout. Civ Fanatics' Byzantine Emperor gets into the action! That is quite a nice Mediterranean empire your Byzantines are enjoying...

 

[Louis XXIV]

So I'm guessing the Ancient Cav isn't in the Middle Ages already (it definately makes a nice Cataphract)

 

[Xen]

Originally posted by Gobi Bear
Good to know Xen finally got to give the Cataphracts and Dromons a workout. Civ Fanatics' Byzantine Emperor gets into the action! That is quite a nice Mediterranean empire your Byzantines are enjoying...

Yup

at the beginning, I didnt really know what I should do as the Byzantines, all the cities were a bit loose, and unconnected, but having those two Dromons helped send me in the right direcetion once I found the Bulagars, and got the horse riding tech, i bolled them over fairlly quick, in order to get to there valuble tar, and even more importantlly, iron

after that I decided the best way to go was for a good old restoration of the Roman empire, besides, by the time crusaders came around as a unit, I needed a crusade,as I had already (re )captured jerusalem, and ended the reign in a very premanent manner the barbarian kingdom who had taken it so what better crusade then to re-forge the Roman world could I have asked for

 

[Louis XXIV]

How does Byzantine get victory points in the scenario? (Like the Medieval Europeans get holy relics).