Dom Vic by 2000Ad.....on Two Continents

[Der Schloss]

I have read that two continents is rough and it is because there's a long time between defeating the Civs on one's continent then having to wait for galleons to attack the other continent. The time needed to get to galleons allows the Civs on the other continent to advance in their military capability, so even when I had galleons, my Praets would have been eaten up by the advanced mil units on the second continent. This caused another delay while I researched gunpowder and riflemen which I used to settle the little islands and build gold producing markets, grocers and banks.
I had conquered my continent (two AI Civs) by 800AD and it was 1795AD before I was ready to invade the second continent. I achieved a Domination Victory in 2000AD after eliminating Genghis Khan and was beating up Tokugawa.
One tactic was to set Research at 0% and Culture at 30% after I achieved Modern Armour and Mechanized Infantry so that I could gobble up the open tiles quicker. After defeating Genghis, I raised the Culture to 50% to keep back Frederick and gobble up the open tiles even quicker. I didn't even have to eliminate Tokugawa, just eat enough of his lunch.
Who da man?

This was playing on Noble level. I think I'm going to go one level higher and see if I can win.

 

[hvevo]

There are a few problems in your tactics, it seems. First of all, why would you use praets as your primary attacking force once you have galleons? You should be busy building trebs and granadiers, and later you should focus on training cavs and cannons. Furthermore, you should not have delayed the invasion until you had mechs and MAs, you could have easily annihilated your opponents by the time you had tanks and infantry.

Secondly, why did you prioritize those gold producing buildings in the newly-founded cities? You could have used them as drafting bases, farming everything and drafting rifles/infantry to support your invasion, building happiness producing buildings instead! In any case, why did you even settle the islands, you would have been better of building more invasion force instead of settlers...

On Noble, it should be easy to achieve Domination victory by 1800s/1900s, e.g. I have pulled this off by early 1700s on Prince (Warlords/Standard/Epic/Raging barbs/1 extra opponent). It is all about prioritizing your tech and building choices.

Anyway, congrats on the victory!

 

[Der Schloss]

My 'as few words as possible' lead to a misinterpretation. I settled the islands while waiting for enough galleons&grens to invade the second continent. I built the gold production capability in the cities on the Roman continent. I had eliminated the Mongol Emp and was engaged in war with Japan when I finished researching Mech Inf; that's when I set Research to zero and Culture to 30%. As I captured another city, I raised the contribution to Culture so as to get the open tiles quicker.

I do want to try for another Dom Vic at an earlier date; there were times when better planning would have enabled earlier achievements.

Thanks for the 'Congrats'. It was my first victory at this level.

 

[futurehermit]

If you start on a small continent it's better to go space race imo. Domination is very time consuming if you don't start on a large continent.