jnebbe
Prince
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- Dec 14, 2019
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I basically beat this already. Had a save where victory was near certain (but would've taken another 200 turns to actually win) that was lost from reinstalling.So what would your plan for Aztec be here.
Aztec have no horse and getting Great Wall is impossible on this map unless you nerf your start on the stone. That would mean giving up a decent caital 2N of the start. If you can't warrior rush Americans then you need IW for the UU. It's very sub optimal. I think Mids/GLH works well for Aztec. The issue is strategy late game. You can't go cuirs. Even if you did they would struggle to take down 15Ai on main land.
If you attempt to capture all land North and South America costs start to catch up with you Albeit the UB for Aztec can help. Bit cheaper than CH.
Taking down Inca seems wasteful here. Lot of effort for little reward.
Aztec vs Americans? Aztecs are spiritual. Which is great for free civic changes. Aztecs will settle their capital in a terrible place. So you would likely want to raze it? Americans do start with a warrior which helps worker steal.
The minute you capture a city on mainland it basically sends all ai stacks your way. You can also try to raze the big port cities to stop risk of counter naval attacks. Problem is warring and trying to tech. Especially if you over expanded. Hmmm.
I played as Hatty and chariot rushed saladin, cyrus, and asoka. It's kinda a luck-based start - sometimes saladin would tech hunter-archery immediately and I would restart while cyrus would start with hunting and not tech archery for 40 turns.
After taking mecca I immediately started building pyramid there, plan was to run representation+mercantilism+statue of liberty for science, since you'll have insane city maintenance until state property, at which point you should have basically won the game and can then steamroll all ais.
I filled in the land from egypt to india and then into turkey a little bit, and then just defended while I teched to infantry. It's really hard to push into europe head on so I would build a spare army every 20 turns or so and ship them to greece->rome->spain->england and finally landed in france.
I left mansa alive for a very long time, he's not a big threat at all, idk if it's worth it to kill him fast and start developing all of africa asap, or to just focus on your already good cities and conquer europe first.