DirtyFinger
Prince
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- Apr 20, 2008
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So, fellow Deity players, how are you holding up ?
I mean, it's pretty easy to play a successful game on deity if you spend half your time reloading after every bad dungeon or village event. If you play halfway serious, though, then it gets a bit hairy.
The first barbarian surge is a killer if you don't secure your city much more earlier than you normally do. Meeting an unfriendly AI civ often spells certain doom, since they start one more settler and about five times as many units. Plus, they cheat anyway.
But at least it's fun.
So far, my early game strategies that seem to work are:
Thoughts ?
I mean, it's pretty easy to play a successful game on deity if you spend half your time reloading after every bad dungeon or village event. If you play halfway serious, though, then it gets a bit hairy.
The first barbarian surge is a killer if you don't secure your city much more earlier than you normally do. Meeting an unfriendly AI civ often spells certain doom, since they start one more settler and about five times as many units. Plus, they cheat anyway.
But at least it's fun.
So far, my early game strategies that seem to work are:
- Put a unit in chokepoints. They rarely get attacked by barbs and if they block access to you empire the barbs on the other side tend to ignore you completely. It helps if can keep the chokepoints inside your cultural borders, because that will prevent attacks from animals and hill giants. Unlike barbarians they won't walk around you if you're outside your borders.
- Leave dungeons alone but destroy lairs, unless they are at the other side of a chokepoint. At least when using a non recon unit.
- Explore villages with a turn left in case you have to leg it.
- If you don't have at least one warrior back home by turn 15, you're dead. Stop exploring with your warrior before that happens.
- Base your starting city location on how well it performs with in the first few rounds. Think size 5. Your real cities can come later after survival.
Thoughts ?