Deity level ... any suggestions ?

[CF_Civ]

Okay, I recently started playing on decent level, but I cannot seem to get past the ancient age without being totally owned
by the AI's. They obviously have an enormous production advantage and keep grabbing every single patch of land. By the
time I have build four cities, the AI civs have built eight each ...

In the latest game, I am playing the Iroquois, and it seems I got
a very good starting position. Both horses and iron are very close,
and a few bonus-food tiles are nearby, too. My neighbors are the
Aztecs, the English and a bit farther away, the Americans.

How do I go about winning the game. It's obvious that peaceful coexistence is not much of an option in the early part of the game. Should I rush-build lots of mounted warriors in the early game and hope to overrun all of my three neighbors with them ?

 

[BurnPoodle]

Well , I never played on deity level... but for sure, if you go military, don't try to take the three civs at the same time or you'll be in serious troubles

Personnaly, I would try making my borders very culturaly high, so I absorb the more cities I can, you can do this on one side of your empire and on the other hand, build an army to capture another civ...

Hope it helps, even if Im not an expert hehe ;p

 

[CF_Civ]

Alright, here's what happened the first time I tried to tackle the map: I built my first four cities and started pumping mounted warriors from two cities with food bonuses and barracks (they could produce one mounted warrior every 3 turns on average). I declared war on the English and succeeded in razing a few of their cities and capturing their capital with the Oracle. The Americans had expanded towards my territory and half of my land bordered on the Aztecs.

Then I probably made a fatal mistake - I declared war on the Americans and two turns later on the Atztecs, who started swarming me with their Jaguar warriors (these guys SUCK !) that could handily defeat my mounted warriors. I guess next time the Aztecs will have to wait until the medieval age so their warriors will be useless, and I'll go after the Americans first.