Originally posted by deadlyconqueror
Hey what is the best way to conquer or attack nearby civs
Practice attack strategies on a tiny pangea map on deity and restart if you don't get a starting position in the centre.
Choose Germans which have archers and spearmen from the beginning. The Chinese will do as well.
Build three or, if possible four cities and use your worker to build mines and roads towards enemy territory
Produce mutiple strike groups of four archers and one spearman.
The objective is now to surprise attack enemy settlers transgressing your territory and thus gain free workers.
Next, use your strike groups to attack enemy cities. On average your casualities will be two archers per city. Make sure you get next to the cities in one turn, otherwise the enemy civ will often waste citizens to rush spearman defenders.
Use the luxury slider to your advantage and minimise research - except maybe if you research swordsmen - which you should since preventing the enemy from having acces to iron is key to succes.
Following this strategy will gain you plenty of free workers which you can use to build up your internal road network. This is basicly the prime objective. the secondary objective is to gain free technology through peace negotiations.
The third objective - territorial expansion - can wait for the time being when your cities are up and running. This means your capital city is capable of producing an archer every second turn, and the surrounding cities maybe one every fourth or fifth turn. (corruption is greater on tiny maps)
When you have maybe ten archers and a couple of spearman attack again this time to expand your territory. If one of the enemy civs have built the great library this is the one civ you should seek to destroy first - since then all your money can be spent on upgrading and luxururies until education is discovered.
In terms of infrastructure you should focus on barracks and walls.
Barracks will give you an edge in combat and will make leader apperance more likely. Walls are important in that the enemy civs will inevitably make some counterattacks against your cities. laugh at the enemy warriors as they try to attack your spearmen in your cities.
The greater your territory gets the less importance internal communications is. With one enemy civ destroyed it is best if you through careful diplomacy can get the weaker of the two remaining civs to join you - or you can join it - in an attack on the stronger civ. You should have acces to iron by now. If you have accumulated a large treasury, consider whether producing warriors before hooking up to an iron resource is a feasible option in terms of saving time. And time is crucial on deity.
You will then dicover that your victory is foregone conclusion. Of course things might go horribly wrong,