Well my regent game is going well. I got the most powerful civ, land, pop, and maybe units, well the Indians have tons of obsolete elephants.
I managed to crush the Aztecs all though to be safe i decided to sign MPPs with everybody else on the continent, India, Zulu, England, didn't bother with America as they are too weak.
From the beginning:
I played a large, continents3, 5 billion and normal climate. Had a good starting spot, surrounded by plains and grassland. I laid many of my cities out in a grid pattern for best production. I got a good start without any ancient wars, which really helped in my expansion. Then did some improving, and got the Great Libary which let me get lazy, and also the Great Lighthouse(totally wasted). Got 1 or 2 spearmen in every city and had temples everywhere. Put some other stuff and then started to build swordsmen for invasion of Aztec empire.
At the moment the big empires were me, the Aztecs, Zulu and India, India being the closest. The Aztecs had the largest military i assumed. I was forced to be a nice guy because i was bordered with Zulu, Aztec and Germany. Imagine that! The 3 most aggressive empires, except maybe Persians. I had about 20 swordsmen but then i realized that the Aztecs had pikemen so i put off the attack. I then looked south and realized that little Germany had no iron. I made more knights and took my swordsmen and knights to the border. I saw then that the Germans had some iron, but i attacked. Took some cities and then continued my offensive. Berlin and Hamburg put up some good figths but the others had 2-3 defenders and i cut off their iron. Germans were eliminated and now i had a border with India.
Then i went with more construction and rushed temples to gobble up land in the German area. Built more improvements, and thanks to some crafty working i got some big middle age wonders.
I set up Thebes with Sun Tzu's with intention for Leo's. I switched when i got invention and pushed for more shields by making peopel work on forests and not irrigation. Got Leo's and had set up Elephantine for Bach and had been building palace for about 50 turns. I got Music Theory and then traded for Astronomy in the same turn. I switched Elephantine to Bachs and got that in 2 turns. Started Copernicus in Thebes. It was a rush for Copernicus because after establishing some embassies i realized that i was ahead of the Indians by 2 turns. Nobody had started any wonder before so we all started from 0 sheilds. Managed to Copernicus and then traded and got some more techs. Built 5 banks and started Wall Street in Memphis and FP in Avaris. Had Heliopolis working on palace and then switched to Newtons and got it in 18 turns. I didn't bother with Smith's.
Around then i got military tradition and started building cavalry. Got Tanis to set up for Theory of Evolution even though we were still in the Middle Ages. Now i planned to invade Aztec empire. But out of nowhere Aztecs declared war on me and attacked my border cities. Luckily i had already planned that in my war they would attack and had strengted my border cities. The cavalry hanging around at the border took out some Aztec cavalry but were killed later. The Aztecs didn't have too much cavalry and i realized that they were trading for saltpeter. They still had alot of swordsmen and longbowmen. protected by pikemen and musketmen. My musketmen in the cities had been killed and i was down to pikemen and spearmen. THen i got nationalism and conscripted riflemen, my first time. I rushed some more riflemen and the cities survived. Meanwhile the rest of my cities had still been producing cavalry and they came to the rescue and took an Aztec city and razed another that had been on the other side to the world(well pretty far). After taking the city and taking more attacks from Aztec cavalry i made an MPP with Zulu and then signed a peace treaty. Both me and Monty knew it won't last for a long time. It was more like a cease fire. Later the conquered city flipped even though we were in peace. The Zulu troops finalyl arrvied north and attacked the Aztecs. The Zulu had a large military but a very bad one. Mostly consisting of sworsdmen and bowmen considering they had all the needed supplies for cavalry. Their few cavalry and a big offensive took an Aztec city. I could see they were pretty bad but why not just involve them anyway. Then the Aztecs retook the conquered city and i was forced back into war but by now i had a considerable miltary. We took back that city i conquered early on and razed it, because those flipping bastards deserved it. I divided my forces in 2 one smaller one going and taking the western cities and the larger taking the big prime cites. I had kept 2 war chariots and sent them on a 1hp cavalry, killed it and got my GA. This gave me a bonus in cavlary production and got the FP and Wall STreet quickly.
Teotichilan the capital held out for ages and i razed some surroudning cities so i won't have to trave too far for healing. Finally took it and the Zulu made an MPP with England. Later Englnand made a MPP with America the weaklings. I continued my offensive and knew that the Aztecs had no cavalry left but tons of riflemen and longbowmen which could pick a cavalry unit.
I suffered few losses and decided to involve more civs in this war. SIgned MPP and alliance with India and same with Greece. Greece signed MPP with Russia who signed MPP with Iroquoius. Soon everybody joined the war although only me, Zulu, India and few English knights did the fighting. The Indians sent just war elephants and i finally realized that the AI has some obbsession with their UUs even when obsolete. THe Zulu and India were there just so they won't bother with the techs and improvements. I did the conquering and the Aztecs were finished and i build some of my own cities where razed cities were. The Indians and Zulus managed to conquer 1 city each both were in the tundra. I rushed temples to gobble up more terrain and now after knocking the Aztecs to 2 island cities i made peace and am moving cavalry south.
Now i onnly have a southern front so i don't have to worry about the north. Next will be the Zulus hopefully with cavalry and infantry and artillery mix and take out Enlgand and America along with them if possible. Then just send tons to infantry south to fortify the India border and wait for tanks.
i attached a very oddly colored image of my map. I'm Egypt, yellow, the Zulu are black, and everybody else is the regular color. On the other continent are the Romans, Iroqouius, Greece and Russia all being weaklings.
THebes is circled in red, Avaris with my FP is in brown, the Germans were SE of the thick blue and the blue dots on the cities mean those cities were captured from the Germans. North of the green line were the Aztecs and the green dots signify conquered cities. Some of them i built with my own settlers. Only 2 of those cities belong to Zulu and India. Cities in the light blue circle are my high production cities.
, there was one more which I gave back due to a barb uprising), have all tech to date, all maps, 1200gold, am leading in score (1028), in power, and in culture (by about 3:1 in culture.) Not a HOF world beater by any means, but a rather strong start for not having fired a shot! Almost seems too easy, I've paid little attention to what I'm building.
