madscientist
RPC Supergenius
Well, after my 32 leader marathon on Prince I upped it to Monarch. Space ship launch in 1712, score 26011, about average for my Prince games. Huge map, Marathon speed, Random everything else. I will try to attach 3 saved games at certain spots, please comment, criticize,ignore, mock or praise; all are welcome. I tried to add 2 other but they were too large, oh well.
The Random genie selects Ragnar.
First save 3535:
Start on coast with two seafood, one flood plains, cows.
Meet Ghengis to the north.
Pop two huts for sailing and animal husbandry, hey sometimes you get lucky.
explore abit no horses, some marble to the north, pretty good land
Save 2485
Find 2 copper sources, one inside the fat cross
Save 820 BC
Up to 3 cities, two on coast.
Meet churchhill
Find two horses on my half of the continent (looks like a continent map), one settles by a barbarian city on tile from a great river location, Argh!!!!
Most important I built the Great Lighthouse. Popping sailing helped alot and the extra two trade route helped alot.
330BC
up to 4 cities, took the barb horse town. Did not raise, it was on coast. Discored alphabet and did some limited trading with Kahn/church
532AD
6 cities but missed the prime northern spot for iron to Kahn, I did get a souther coastal one though.
Popped great scientist and bulbed Philosophy (yes BULBED). Founded Taoism and Kahn quickly converted and became friends. A little later Churchill joined the lovefest. Connected marble and built great library (the only other world wonder I got or tried for except for engineer ruching the space elevator) ot a greta merchant for cash to keep science slider at 100% which was important while I teched COL and Currency. It is obvious there are just three of us on this continent.
832AD
Getting crowded with Kahn, there is a -4 diplomacy penalty. I remained patient with Kahn but started a major buildup with Cats/Swordsmen/Horse archers. I have a great tech edge with philosophy/Fuedalism/Compass. I bulbed a great scientist for the compass the get harbors quickly for the 50% increase in trade yields on my 4 trade routes per costal city.
1000AD Reality hits.
I meet my rivals, Montezuma and Mansa Musa who are bith Hindu and at war. They have atremendous tech lead and all I have to offer is philosophy. I held Phil for a while attempted to get liberlaism but when I popped a great artist rather than a great scientist the race was lost, I got hat I could. Monty has the city of Pisae so I assume one of the Caesars are out there. Kahn has a few cities south of my empire which is OK, he can pay the maintenance and nothing too interesting there. I declared war on Kahn a little earlier and have his capital surreounded. He capitulates after I take it. I quickly send my great artist up the the former mongol capital and let him create his greta work.
1230 AD
Met all other leader but 1 (later Cyrus). Now there are Wang/Mehmed/Ramses in addition to Mansa/Monty all killing me in tech. At this point I lmost gave up but decided to fight to the end. I met Agustus and Napolean who were eek with a few cities and close to me in tech. I got engineering and Guilds from them. I think the Phil bulb actually somewhat got me about 3 or 4 techs. I research Astonomy since noone except Monty had it (Monty got to liberalism first, go figure)
1354
Start loading up units to invade my friendly English Pal. I am a viking and those prime costal cities look very ripe!!! My whole emphasis is building corttages, building libraries/markets/courthouses/grocers/univerisites/observatories. My Nidros and Upsala rpoviced most of the troops for the English invasion.
1400
churchill invaded and vassaled fairly quickly. I took only three cities but took the early capitulation. I now had a continent to myself and put all my emphasis into research. The other continant had alot of people who hated each other, Mehmed was the only one I was concerned about, but I was sure I could defend myself.
1471
Defensive Pact with Cyrus. Only one to really stay out of the wars on that continent. I didn't even have to bribe anyone, they were happy to declare was amongst themselves. I continued to research techs few knew while telling churchhill to research what I needed and didn't want to get from trades.
1582 Monty did declare on me, dropping some cav and cannons which were eliminated the turn they landed. His navy was no match to mine. Send my own fleet and razed hist onley western costal city which was his horse town. By the time i declared peace with Monty I had slowly caught up almost everyone in techs, except for dead enders like Medicine, Facism. I tried to time building Apollo with getting all tech but got it 12 turns before Robiotics. I merged my last engineer in the Docking Bay city.
Space ship Launch 1682.
Overall I used everything I have learned myself or from these forums. Alot of common sense and utilize situations as they come. Building the great lighthouse after poppong sailing early was big. great Library was easy. Befriending Kahn and Churchhill for a long time then attacking when I was ready was key. Situation use for great people (I actually dropped another greta artists in my most northen captured English city). All in All a great game, lots of fun, and Monarch was not as difficult as I feared although the tech deficite was an early concern. I knew I had the resources, land and cities to recovery I just needed the patience.
I'll check tomorrow, now I need to start a new monarch game. Perhaps industrious roosevelt and go merge some great engineers/prophets. thatnk to all for the advice!!!!!
The Random genie selects Ragnar.
First save 3535:
Start on coast with two seafood, one flood plains, cows.
Meet Ghengis to the north.
Pop two huts for sailing and animal husbandry, hey sometimes you get lucky.
explore abit no horses, some marble to the north, pretty good land
Save 2485
Find 2 copper sources, one inside the fat cross
Save 820 BC
Up to 3 cities, two on coast.
Meet churchhill
Find two horses on my half of the continent (looks like a continent map), one settles by a barbarian city on tile from a great river location, Argh!!!!
Most important I built the Great Lighthouse. Popping sailing helped alot and the extra two trade route helped alot.
330BC
up to 4 cities, took the barb horse town. Did not raise, it was on coast. Discored alphabet and did some limited trading with Kahn/church
532AD
6 cities but missed the prime northern spot for iron to Kahn, I did get a souther coastal one though.
Popped great scientist and bulbed Philosophy (yes BULBED). Founded Taoism and Kahn quickly converted and became friends. A little later Churchill joined the lovefest. Connected marble and built great library (the only other world wonder I got or tried for except for engineer ruching the space elevator) ot a greta merchant for cash to keep science slider at 100% which was important while I teched COL and Currency. It is obvious there are just three of us on this continent.
832AD
Getting crowded with Kahn, there is a -4 diplomacy penalty. I remained patient with Kahn but started a major buildup with Cats/Swordsmen/Horse archers. I have a great tech edge with philosophy/Fuedalism/Compass. I bulbed a great scientist for the compass the get harbors quickly for the 50% increase in trade yields on my 4 trade routes per costal city.
1000AD Reality hits.
I meet my rivals, Montezuma and Mansa Musa who are bith Hindu and at war. They have atremendous tech lead and all I have to offer is philosophy. I held Phil for a while attempted to get liberlaism but when I popped a great artist rather than a great scientist the race was lost, I got hat I could. Monty has the city of Pisae so I assume one of the Caesars are out there. Kahn has a few cities south of my empire which is OK, he can pay the maintenance and nothing too interesting there. I declared war on Kahn a little earlier and have his capital surreounded. He capitulates after I take it. I quickly send my great artist up the the former mongol capital and let him create his greta work.
1230 AD
Met all other leader but 1 (later Cyrus). Now there are Wang/Mehmed/Ramses in addition to Mansa/Monty all killing me in tech. At this point I lmost gave up but decided to fight to the end. I met Agustus and Napolean who were eek with a few cities and close to me in tech. I got engineering and Guilds from them. I think the Phil bulb actually somewhat got me about 3 or 4 techs. I research Astonomy since noone except Monty had it (Monty got to liberalism first, go figure)
1354
Start loading up units to invade my friendly English Pal. I am a viking and those prime costal cities look very ripe!!! My whole emphasis is building corttages, building libraries/markets/courthouses/grocers/univerisites/observatories. My Nidros and Upsala rpoviced most of the troops for the English invasion.
1400
churchill invaded and vassaled fairly quickly. I took only three cities but took the early capitulation. I now had a continent to myself and put all my emphasis into research. The other continant had alot of people who hated each other, Mehmed was the only one I was concerned about, but I was sure I could defend myself.
1471
Defensive Pact with Cyrus. Only one to really stay out of the wars on that continent. I didn't even have to bribe anyone, they were happy to declare was amongst themselves. I continued to research techs few knew while telling churchhill to research what I needed and didn't want to get from trades.
1582 Monty did declare on me, dropping some cav and cannons which were eliminated the turn they landed. His navy was no match to mine. Send my own fleet and razed hist onley western costal city which was his horse town. By the time i declared peace with Monty I had slowly caught up almost everyone in techs, except for dead enders like Medicine, Facism. I tried to time building Apollo with getting all tech but got it 12 turns before Robiotics. I merged my last engineer in the Docking Bay city.
Space ship Launch 1682.
Overall I used everything I have learned myself or from these forums. Alot of common sense and utilize situations as they come. Building the great lighthouse after poppong sailing early was big. great Library was easy. Befriending Kahn and Churchhill for a long time then attacking when I was ready was key. Situation use for great people (I actually dropped another greta artists in my most northen captured English city). All in All a great game, lots of fun, and Monarch was not as difficult as I feared although the tech deficite was an early concern. I knew I had the resources, land and cities to recovery I just needed the patience.
I'll check tomorrow, now I need to start a new monarch game. Perhaps industrious roosevelt and go merge some great engineers/prophets. thatnk to all for the advice!!!!!
