[BTS] Feedback for a game I just finished? Earth18Civs/Warlord

[Kernel]

I know this is probably pretty easy difficulty compared to practically all the other games here, sorry about that xD

I'm hovering around Warlord/Noble difficulty at the moment, testing out all the different things. Judging by my own game I PROBABLY could play Prince and be competitive (less certain about Monarch), but as it is I just love curbstomping the AI too much.

For this game I went for culture victory as China/Qin Shi Huang, whereas usually I go for either space, UN or domination. I'm pretty sure I could've done better, so I'd like to ask if there's anything I should've done differently to make my game better?

Also, how come when I pick Earth18Civs I don't get to pick some of the other leaders like Churchill? If I choose to play with English I only get to choose Elizabeth...

(Sorry if I've ignored any forum conventions, it's my first time posting!)

 

[pigswill]

Hi. Welcome to the forums.

I'm pretty sure there are things you could have done better (but that's true of everyone). Bit difficult to go into specifics from the victory save. If you're looking for advice then really you need to post much earlier games and ask where you go from there. I like Earth 18 but I suspect you'd be advised to play a smaller map size because huge maps are very sprawling.

 

[Gumbolt]

Very little to add. I would try playing monarch and see how you do. It's quite beatable. Just keep expanding early on and settle food resources in inner ring like you did this game.

As you can see from other games on here a bit of micro and expansion early on mixed with cottages put you in a healthy tech lead even on monarch/emperor.

1908AD seems later for culture but not really sure you planned this for culture. 18 civs makes map quite slow.

 

[Deathcrush]

I am in not position to give advice cause i don't play that big maps but about prince it's pretty easy to lib and cuirassier rush on Pangea. Also u can rush someone who is close and dangerous techer like Mansa or willem. I am very proud with my last domination win it was also the fastest win with date 1500 ad - well for me is fast at least. i know it's nothing compared to these guys who play only deity but hey... not everyone are deity masters and also not everyone enjoys a game which it's too hard and near impossible to win.
I consider moving on to monarch too but still not sure and need some convincing.

 

[elmurcis]

Earth18 map is kind of different thing. Not just because its huge but also because it has a lot of resource/tile combinations that regular generator won't have and overall land is more rich vs random generated maps (with regular maps). But China can be great cottage+GLH empire, just Toku might steal that wonder (or build for you instead to take little later )

 

[ArchGhost]

Earth18 is usually easier than a normal map (unless you pick Mansa or Saladin), so you should bump up your difficulty. The richer land and abundance of small/weak targets, along with the fact they aren't granted the free difficulty techs, makes it a lot easier to snowball earlier. It's actually a bad map for learning habits for more "normal" maps because you can get away with a ton of stuff on Earth18 that doesn't happen with the more even land distribution and less gimped AIs (lol at Huayna Capac, Louis, Mansa, Toku, Liz, Genghis, etc) on a more standard map.

For this game I went for culture victory as China/Qin Shi Huang, whereas usually I go for either space, UN or domination. I'm pretty sure I could've done better, so I'd like to ask if there's anything I should've done differently to make my game better?

Attack somebody early. Spam warriors, assemble 5-6 of them and take another capitol. Or you can use Chariots, if you have Horse (Qin does). You can even spam Archers if you pick a civ that starts with Hunting (Freddy and Genghis come to mind). It works fine even up to Immortal on somebody close. They still don't start with Archers on Deity, but with a 2nd city they'll spam warriors twice as fast and tech faster.

Do that and you'll be pretty much untouchable except by one of the potential super-power AIs in Eurasia: Qin, Cathy or sometimes Cyrus. You can then tech to Trebs/Cuirs/Cavs and roll the whole map without stopping until somebody gets Rifles, which could easily be nobody. The New World Ais don't even factor on this map, and everybody else takes far too long to make it to any victory type to be a threat. Asoka can sometimes get to space and Hatty/Freddy can try super-late cultural, but it's typically nothing realistic unless you sit there and let it happen.

Playing as Qin is also pretty much easy mode on that map, you have some of the richest land on the map at your disposal and a lot of it. Beat Asoka in the settling race for Indochina by blocking the path across the Brahmaputra, and maybe fend off Genghis once or twice (or just kill him) and you'll have no problems really.

Also, how come when I pick Earth18Civs I don't get to pick some of the other leaders like Churchill? If I choose to play with English I only get to choose Elizabeth...

It's a custom scenario, so the leaders and spawn locations are pre-picked.