Hi everyone, i have seen many matches on YouTube but I only see standard speed matches (I play online speed) and with the domination victory, things that works on videos doesn't work for me, because by the time I get 3 cities with horsemen/swordmen/crossbowmen/catapults, they get 50 garrison strength and it's impossible to me to conquer these cities, by then I just leave the game because I'm too behind in science, culture and especially gold. Do you guys have a playtrough/written guide/tips? Thank you for the reading.
Deity domination victory, online speed
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Maybe this will help?
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/t-92-deity-speedrun.666636/
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/t-92-deity-speedrun.666636/
KingPiggyXXI
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Don't wait for Crossbowmen or even Catapults. The moment you unlock Horsemen or Swordsmen is when you're going to want to start warring. If you delay your wars, then you're just going to be having a harder time dealing with the AI. The Medieval Era is probably the worst time possible to be fighting wars since enemy cities will have walls and Crossbowmen can shred Catapults.
A force of several Horsemen is more than capable of dealing with an AI, especially since they seem to delay building Swordsmen or Horsemen, so their cities will likely have lower Combat Strength. You can research Engineering and Machinery and add in Catapult and Crossbowmen reinforcements later.
It's also extremely important to pillage. Pillaging can help your units recover a massive amount of health, and can get you a large amount of gold for upgrading or buying units.
A force of several Horsemen is more than capable of dealing with an AI, especially since they seem to delay building Swordsmen or Horsemen, so their cities will likely have lower Combat Strength. You can research Engineering and Machinery and add in Catapult and Crossbowmen reinforcements later.
It's also extremely important to pillage. Pillaging can help your units recover a massive amount of health, and can get you a large amount of gold for upgrading or buying units.
Thanks for the replies. Yesterday I tried with Mongolia, once I researched horse riding and maneuvers, I sent a trader to Phenicia for +6 and took a city, the capital built walls and from there I tried to carry the catapults, but the walls + crossbowmen were killing all the units. What could I do against walls? The battering ram doesn't work with cavalry unfortunately.
If you have multiple catapults and a Great General you can cycle them in and out of range to wear down the walls while your horseman take out any units floating around. The GG allows the catapult to move and shoot on the same turn, so you can get a shot off then retreat to rest out of range of the walls/crossbow. It's tedious and you need to make sure you're not devoting all your resources to taking that one city, lest you fall behind in other domination/building your infrastructure.
Better option might be to wait until you get bombards, which can hold up better to crossbows and take down walls more effectively. Use your speedy mounted units to take any unwalled cities and pillage everything in sight for cities with walls.
