Hi folks
First, I have to say, that I dont have warlords expansion yet, so I dont know if the following will much help there
I started to experiment with deity level difficulty after I tried an emperor game on epic speed. I found that I liked the epic game speed more then the normal speed, because I actually was able to use most of the units I built, before they became obsolete. On the other hand, the game was much easier with this game speed.
So I decided to continue on epic speed. I also decided to skip immortal level and to move directly to deity level
The first attempts I always got killed by barbarians or an opponent who decided to overrun me early (between 2000 and 1000 BC).
When I finally managed to survive this, I got killed the next attempts by an opponent who decided to overrun me a little later (between 1000 BC and 1000 AD)
When I finally managed to survive this, I usually found myself outnumbered and outteched and had to give up the game
So back to theory and looking in the forums for some guidelines. I didnt find any direct guide to deity level that didnt involve some early rushing or an UU or burning down captured cities or exploiting some flaw in the game
But I was able to pick a little from here and there and in the end, I put it all together and I was able to finally compete with the computer on deity level.
I did a test game on a huge continent map, which took me ages to finish because I excessive saved, reloaded and stepped back in time, retried and modified my strategy to find an ideal way throughout the whole game. In the end, I was able to win.
I retied this strategy then in a new game (again a huge continent map) this time in ironman mode (no load and save). Everything worked (almost) as planned but I stopped this game at about 1000 AD, because I had e new idea.
With a minor change in the research strategy it should be also possible to compete with the computer on an archipelago map. I never played an archipelago map before and so I wanted to try this at once and decided to stop the other game and to start one with the following settings:
Persia, deity level, huge map, archipelago, high sea level, all settings on standard, ironman mode
IT WORKED
But then, at about 1650 AD, when I was about to gather a small invasion army on my islands (1, 2 80 tanks), the first game crash
I hoped that this was only bad luck, but at 1700 AD, with 4 or 5 game crashes more, I had to face it:
I cant finish this game because my laptop isnt able to handle the endgame troop race on this map size with cities all over the map.
I alone had about 40 cities at that point (funny thing, when you build a new city with 30+ cities, the computer cant handle the city names any more), the remaining opponents about 100 altogether. I also had 2 palaces, because the computer also failed here (an enemy captured an island city from me, and after capturing their entire continent this city became their capital. When I captured it back, the palace remained their).
The game was almost won, I was ahead in the score list by about 1000 points, I even got elected head of the UN (after killing 2 computer oponents, but with me or Monty the mad to vote for, most of the others still voted for me). I had 3 more rounds to go until I could upgrade my tanks to modern armors, my invasion fleet, helicopters and artillery all waiting to visit dear Qin (he hadnt modern armors at that point)
AND HERE THE GAME ENDS
This cant be true. So close to my first ironman deity level victory. The map, the game play itself, simply everything was great with this game.
When I saw that I still had the 4000 BC save, I decided to post here and to turn this game into an open deity level challenge. Perhaps one of you can finish the game for me, so not all would be lost
So if any of you are interested, please let me know. I will then post the 4000 BC starting save in the next thread. Any of you can participate and try to play this game, there are no rules (but you need a strong computer). Those of you who like a tough challenge can try as I did to play ironman mode.
I will post more of my saves as the game processes, so you can compare your own strategy to mine. When you screwed up, you can also skip to one of my saves, whenever you like. Feel free to post your own saves, screenshots, and questions.
Additionally, I will also bring a short summary of the strategy I used for those who need some guideline playing at deity level. But this I will do after each game episode (the first one when the game reached 1 AD), because I dont want to spoil the challenge completely.
When there are more then 5 people joining this thread, I will continue as described above and start the challenge with the save.
see you soon,
Snaaty
First, I have to say, that I dont have warlords expansion yet, so I dont know if the following will much help there
I started to experiment with deity level difficulty after I tried an emperor game on epic speed. I found that I liked the epic game speed more then the normal speed, because I actually was able to use most of the units I built, before they became obsolete. On the other hand, the game was much easier with this game speed.
So I decided to continue on epic speed. I also decided to skip immortal level and to move directly to deity level
The first attempts I always got killed by barbarians or an opponent who decided to overrun me early (between 2000 and 1000 BC).
When I finally managed to survive this, I got killed the next attempts by an opponent who decided to overrun me a little later (between 1000 BC and 1000 AD)
When I finally managed to survive this, I usually found myself outnumbered and outteched and had to give up the game
So back to theory and looking in the forums for some guidelines. I didnt find any direct guide to deity level that didnt involve some early rushing or an UU or burning down captured cities or exploiting some flaw in the game
But I was able to pick a little from here and there and in the end, I put it all together and I was able to finally compete with the computer on deity level.
I did a test game on a huge continent map, which took me ages to finish because I excessive saved, reloaded and stepped back in time, retried and modified my strategy to find an ideal way throughout the whole game. In the end, I was able to win.
I retied this strategy then in a new game (again a huge continent map) this time in ironman mode (no load and save). Everything worked (almost) as planned but I stopped this game at about 1000 AD, because I had e new idea.
With a minor change in the research strategy it should be also possible to compete with the computer on an archipelago map. I never played an archipelago map before and so I wanted to try this at once and decided to stop the other game and to start one with the following settings:
Persia, deity level, huge map, archipelago, high sea level, all settings on standard, ironman mode
IT WORKED
But then, at about 1650 AD, when I was about to gather a small invasion army on my islands (1, 2 80 tanks), the first game crash
I hoped that this was only bad luck, but at 1700 AD, with 4 or 5 game crashes more, I had to face it:
I cant finish this game because my laptop isnt able to handle the endgame troop race on this map size with cities all over the map.
I alone had about 40 cities at that point (funny thing, when you build a new city with 30+ cities, the computer cant handle the city names any more), the remaining opponents about 100 altogether. I also had 2 palaces, because the computer also failed here (an enemy captured an island city from me, and after capturing their entire continent this city became their capital. When I captured it back, the palace remained their).
The game was almost won, I was ahead in the score list by about 1000 points, I even got elected head of the UN (after killing 2 computer oponents, but with me or Monty the mad to vote for, most of the others still voted for me). I had 3 more rounds to go until I could upgrade my tanks to modern armors, my invasion fleet, helicopters and artillery all waiting to visit dear Qin (he hadnt modern armors at that point)
AND HERE THE GAME ENDS
This cant be true. So close to my first ironman deity level victory. The map, the game play itself, simply everything was great with this game.
When I saw that I still had the 4000 BC save, I decided to post here and to turn this game into an open deity level challenge. Perhaps one of you can finish the game for me, so not all would be lost
So if any of you are interested, please let me know. I will then post the 4000 BC starting save in the next thread. Any of you can participate and try to play this game, there are no rules (but you need a strong computer). Those of you who like a tough challenge can try as I did to play ironman mode.
I will post more of my saves as the game processes, so you can compare your own strategy to mine. When you screwed up, you can also skip to one of my saves, whenever you like. Feel free to post your own saves, screenshots, and questions.
Additionally, I will also bring a short summary of the strategy I used for those who need some guideline playing at deity level. But this I will do after each game episode (the first one when the game reached 1 AD), because I dont want to spoil the challenge completely.
When there are more then 5 people joining this thread, I will continue as described above and start the challenge with the save.
see you soon,
Snaaty
