Early War?

[Dereth]

I usually go for an early ancient war to wipe out at least one civ. I was just going to ask how many cities I should build before I start pumping out units for an early war?

 

[philippe]

1 is enough warrior gambit

 

[skaternate]

I'm not much for the warrior gambit, I like to build in every city unit, setller, unit, settler so forth, so on. Untill I am out of room to expand, I plot ahead of time where all cities will be placed on the map, and such how many settlers I will need to produce these cities. When I start building the final settler then all other cities their on start building barracks, unit, unit, unit, on to triumpth. I mass produce a min. 30 units before the initial strike, then try to blow through the civ in ten turns. Then back to settler, city improvemt, settler, unit, city improvement, settler, settler, unit. Then when I am out of room again I should have 60 units at my next victims border then I blitz. Countinous pattern till all is under my control.

 

[BCLG100]

as many as you want but try and have double the amount of units as they do cities

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Dereth: you can do the following if you see a good chance of getting iron!!!! that is if there's lots of mountains around.

Expand normally, that is settlers whenever you can. In the downtime, when the citie(s) is/are too small to build a setller, do not build Spearmen, build barrakcs, then a Warrior. Set you science low, so that you get ironworking at the time you have maybe 6 Veteran Warriors and maybe 200 Gold over. Then, produce Swordsmen while upgrading your Warriors. Now, you should have the same number of units as the enemy, but a far highrer percentage of Swordsmen. Go for him!

 

[BCLG100]

if you cant get any iron build archers and horsemen for some reason even though they have the same stats i beat spearmen with archers more than i do with horsemen

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

other way round here, often my Hosries that i sent in first kill defenders instead of damaging them....

 

[BCLG100]

oh must just be the random generator thing ok i dont want to start this topic again but my elite modern armour lost to a regular spearmen

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Wow, do you have a save?

 

[BCLG100]

of what my elit modern armour losing to n elite spearmen no i was at war with the fench and since then i have been at war with the babylonians (dead) zulus (dying) and the chinese (just started plus you wouldnt wnat the save it took like 10 miutes to watch all the cities in civil disorder

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

oh i wouldn't mind. Did you know the only savegame ever posted of an unmodded tank loosing to an unmodded Spearman was posted by.... me?

 

[BCLG100]

nop
but it hasnt happened to many people and it is so annoying when it happens as my nearest modern armour was like 2 or 3 turns away