PRIMEMOVER
Warlord
Something I've come across in a current game regarding dealing with other civs on your same continent....
I've heard various methods and ideas, but it never really applied to me until now.
Playing Regent, eight opponents with four (including me) on one continent and the other four, I assume on the other main continent. We've all exapanded out to fill the continent and now Egypt has begun to devour me (China) culturally. I'm shooting for a domination win, so my early strategy has been to produce swordsmen and now Riders en masse. Egypt has already assimilated two cities, one very key Wine resource city and I'm now very pissed...in the past I've been able to expand out, hold my own at the edges of my borders and fill in from within, but this is really the first time I've felt the squeeze from another civ culturally, to the point where I've decided enough is enough.
What did I do? Glad you asked. I've formed an alliance with Japan and Germany against Egypt with Zulu sitting on the sidelines. My first thought was to jump on Zulu or Germany before heading off to deal with Egypt, but at the rate they were taking my border towns, I didn't think that was a viable option.
So the question is, given the 3-on-1 approach I've found myself in, was that the best play? Or should I in that situation, jump on the smaller civ earlier before Egypt got a chance to expand?
What's the generally accepted strategy in this situation?
The alliance essentially forces Egypt in a two-front battle with Japan bordering on the North and myself on the South with Germany coming up from my southern border to help. I felt the two-front tactic was ideal if I wanted to commit to war, otherwise I wouldn't do it.
I've heard various methods and ideas, but it never really applied to me until now.
Playing Regent, eight opponents with four (including me) on one continent and the other four, I assume on the other main continent. We've all exapanded out to fill the continent and now Egypt has begun to devour me (China) culturally. I'm shooting for a domination win, so my early strategy has been to produce swordsmen and now Riders en masse. Egypt has already assimilated two cities, one very key Wine resource city and I'm now very pissed...in the past I've been able to expand out, hold my own at the edges of my borders and fill in from within, but this is really the first time I've felt the squeeze from another civ culturally, to the point where I've decided enough is enough.
What did I do? Glad you asked. I've formed an alliance with Japan and Germany against Egypt with Zulu sitting on the sidelines. My first thought was to jump on Zulu or Germany before heading off to deal with Egypt, but at the rate they were taking my border towns, I didn't think that was a viable option.
So the question is, given the 3-on-1 approach I've found myself in, was that the best play? Or should I in that situation, jump on the smaller civ earlier before Egypt got a chance to expand?
What's the generally accepted strategy in this situation?
The alliance essentially forces Egypt in a two-front battle with Japan bordering on the North and myself on the South with Germany coming up from my southern border to help. I felt the two-front tactic was ideal if I wanted to commit to war, otherwise I wouldn't do it.
