CrimsonEdge
Warlord
- Joined
- Aug 25, 2006
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- 256
Playing my fourth game so far and I'm on the middle difficulty (2 below Deity) and going for a domination win. So far so easy, but I've been pleasantly surprised by how powerful this civ is in the early and late game.
First thing I did was settle my starting city and put 4 hammers into a warrior. The reason for this is because I want a superior military force for early expansion via barbs. I figure that the 2-3 turns it nets me, I'll have an army up before any civ has bronze working.
And it worked. I had 4 cities, my capital, 2 barb, and another the chinese capital in about 12 turns. Once I captured a city I put it on to two hammers and produced quick warriors. 3 turns for a warrior and a close enemy can get you a real crazy advantage.
I continued to expand and explore, taking over every barb city I saw (so far I've taken over some 7-9 barb cities) while finding other civs as well. French to my North and Greeks to my East. Oh boy.
I noticed that the greeks were pinned in by a mountain and decided to attack them first. I was teching for Keshiks at the time when the French decided to give me an ultimatum. "Give us your tech or die!" Right . My, at the time, 5 Warrior armies and 3-4 archer armies in my front cities didn't really care.
So he attacked me and I ignored the Greeks. I pinned them in by using two 'extra' warriors. By the time I had teched up to Keshiks I had taken over one of Frances other cities. He cried, I laughed. "PEACE, PEACE!" No peace for you!
By this time I met the Americans who were to the east of my newly captured city. Fun. I had researched catapults and had begun my advance on the French Capitol. I noticed that they had heavily fortified archers in their capital so I put some horses one square away from their city. This ensured that if they brought anything out, they would die.
I did some more exploring and found two more barbarian cities, one to the north east of the French capital and another to the north west. I captured both and soon found out that the French had impressive culture as my north east town was converted. No matter. I'd take out the French soon enough.
I had also found 2 more barbs on islands and founded another city south of my capital that has Whales, Wheat, and Wine (I know, all W's, crazy). This was my research and gold town. My production town was my conquered french town. The rest were churning out units every few turns.
Around this time, for whatever reason, I got a Great Person - one that converted an enemies city! Lucky me, it was the American city that was about 4-5 squares to the east of my french city. Awesome, I'm going to win no problem.
After a bit, I attacked with my catapult armies and found out that their walls were simply too much for my catapults so I backed off and built some spies. I sent the spies up to the enemy city and RIGHT before my spies got to their capital...
MY GAME FROZE!
What the duece? I was JUST about to go to the Modern Age and JUST finished researching tanks and was about 5 turns away from building Leonardo's Workshop! GAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I could have won that even if it was Deity!
Oh well, I'll give an update to my game tommorow when I finish it up.
First thing I did was settle my starting city and put 4 hammers into a warrior. The reason for this is because I want a superior military force for early expansion via barbs. I figure that the 2-3 turns it nets me, I'll have an army up before any civ has bronze working.
And it worked. I had 4 cities, my capital, 2 barb, and another the chinese capital in about 12 turns. Once I captured a city I put it on to two hammers and produced quick warriors. 3 turns for a warrior and a close enemy can get you a real crazy advantage.
I continued to expand and explore, taking over every barb city I saw (so far I've taken over some 7-9 barb cities) while finding other civs as well. French to my North and Greeks to my East. Oh boy.
I noticed that the greeks were pinned in by a mountain and decided to attack them first. I was teching for Keshiks at the time when the French decided to give me an ultimatum. "Give us your tech or die!" Right . My, at the time, 5 Warrior armies and 3-4 archer armies in my front cities didn't really care.
So he attacked me and I ignored the Greeks. I pinned them in by using two 'extra' warriors. By the time I had teched up to Keshiks I had taken over one of Frances other cities. He cried, I laughed. "PEACE, PEACE!" No peace for you!
By this time I met the Americans who were to the east of my newly captured city. Fun. I had researched catapults and had begun my advance on the French Capitol. I noticed that they had heavily fortified archers in their capital so I put some horses one square away from their city. This ensured that if they brought anything out, they would die.
I did some more exploring and found two more barbarian cities, one to the north east of the French capital and another to the north west. I captured both and soon found out that the French had impressive culture as my north east town was converted. No matter. I'd take out the French soon enough.
I had also found 2 more barbs on islands and founded another city south of my capital that has Whales, Wheat, and Wine (I know, all W's, crazy). This was my research and gold town. My production town was my conquered french town. The rest were churning out units every few turns.
Around this time, for whatever reason, I got a Great Person - one that converted an enemies city! Lucky me, it was the American city that was about 4-5 squares to the east of my french city. Awesome, I'm going to win no problem.
After a bit, I attacked with my catapult armies and found out that their walls were simply too much for my catapults so I backed off and built some spies. I sent the spies up to the enemy city and RIGHT before my spies got to their capital...
MY GAME FROZE!
What the duece? I was JUST about to go to the Modern Age and JUST finished researching tanks and was about 5 turns away from building Leonardo's Workshop! GAAAAAAAAAAAAH! I could have won that even if it was Deity!
Oh well, I'll give an update to my game tommorow when I finish it up.