Well I got antsy and finished the game in one of the most uneventful experiences in my life.
All my southern neighbors had massive power scores even after I whipped and drafted an army of around 30 units. More than enough for me on noble! Emperor had me concerned so I spent another 25 turns building up another similarly sized stack. Tell Willem to die and he throws his massive power at me! What seemed like 100 crossbows and 30 elephants.... really? Shaka at least had a stack of 30ish knights by the time I tried to make him capitulate and quickly supplemented these with grenadiers and musketmen.
Honestly figured I'd lose and didn't want to document that so I'm severely lacking pictures other than the very end when it dawned on me that I had actually won. Game was horribly uneventful and ground on as I started watching tv and never actually built infrastructure. Every city with only a few exceptions pumped a mounted unit or siege from about 1150 on. Not really proud of that but it was just hard to try and focus when I was running over longbows with cavalry from around 1300AD to 1750AD. Then I had to go up against the mighty grenadiers! Bleh.
The only picture I even bothered to take.
[img=http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/164/victory2cw8.th.jpg]
On the plus side this was partly possible due to just how great my capitol covered in cottages ended up performing. Ended up running Bureaucracy until 1800ish and the one city covered the costs of a sprawling empire without Wall Street or uh... even a bank
Think Darius is partly to thank for this heh.
Spoiler :
All my southern neighbors had massive power scores even after I whipped and drafted an army of around 30 units. More than enough for me on noble! Emperor had me concerned so I spent another 25 turns building up another similarly sized stack. Tell Willem to die and he throws his massive power at me! What seemed like 100 crossbows and 30 elephants.... really? Shaka at least had a stack of 30ish knights by the time I tried to make him capitulate and quickly supplemented these with grenadiers and musketmen.
Honestly figured I'd lose and didn't want to document that so I'm severely lacking pictures other than the very end when it dawned on me that I had actually won. Game was horribly uneventful and ground on as I started watching tv and never actually built infrastructure. Every city with only a few exceptions pumped a mounted unit or siege from about 1150 on. Not really proud of that but it was just hard to try and focus when I was running over longbows with cavalry from around 1300AD to 1750AD. Then I had to go up against the mighty grenadiers! Bleh.
The only picture I even bothered to take.
[img=http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/164/victory2cw8.th.jpg]
On the plus side this was partly possible due to just how great my capitol covered in cottages ended up performing. Ended up running Bureaucracy until 1800ish and the one city covered the costs of a sprawling empire without Wall Street or uh... even a bank
