I have just created and tested a new strategy I like to call Fortress: Germany, and with it will be able to secure a domination victory on Monarch my first time playing! It all kind of happened on accident.
After reading about the size six strategy from another thread in this forum, I started a game as Greece on a huge world map with 16 enemies, and I started out in the fertile grasslands just N.W. of modern day Afghanistan. I built a worker everytime a city reached its maximum size so that three things were accomplished.
1) My lands were fully mined and covered in roads faster than I ever thought possible.
2) Once acqueducts were discovered, I sent my workers to populate all my cities up to size 12.
3) I never had much of a chance to expand past the 5 cities I originally founded.
By then, all of the land worth colonizing was taken, and only deserts on the outskirts of my existing towns were left.
This left me severely underpowered compared to the 15-20 city nations that had sprung up around me, so when they went to war and marched through my territory it would've been suicide to ask them to leave.
I then took the workers I had been building up for when hospitals are discovered and began building forts all along my border. It took a while, but by the time the Romans declared war on me for refusing to give them Free Artistry I had enough Musketmen and forts to fend off the Roman legionaries and knights. The roads connecting every fortress I controlled allowed me to reinforce wherever they attacked and completely crush any attempted attacks they made with counterattacking longbowman.
It is just now the industrial period, my cities have all swelled to size 21 with my infusion of old workers, and I have two musketmen and a cannon guarding each possible entrance to my territory. This in addition to the railroad network now covering my land and making troops movement from fort to fort so easy, I am virtually impenetrable.
I'm now building up an army of cavalry to make the Romans pay for their deeds, but I was just thinking how even more effective this strategy would be with the Germans, hence the title.
With them, you could build up an army of panzers, easily the most powerful unit in their time, and blitz through anyone's defenses without fear of leaving enough troops behind to prevent the pillaging of your land.
Yes, it may be even more overextensive than the maginot line, but it seems to work fine for me.
Anyone have any comments?
After reading about the size six strategy from another thread in this forum, I started a game as Greece on a huge world map with 16 enemies, and I started out in the fertile grasslands just N.W. of modern day Afghanistan. I built a worker everytime a city reached its maximum size so that three things were accomplished.
1) My lands were fully mined and covered in roads faster than I ever thought possible.
2) Once acqueducts were discovered, I sent my workers to populate all my cities up to size 12.
3) I never had much of a chance to expand past the 5 cities I originally founded.
By then, all of the land worth colonizing was taken, and only deserts on the outskirts of my existing towns were left.
This left me severely underpowered compared to the 15-20 city nations that had sprung up around me, so when they went to war and marched through my territory it would've been suicide to ask them to leave.
I then took the workers I had been building up for when hospitals are discovered and began building forts all along my border. It took a while, but by the time the Romans declared war on me for refusing to give them Free Artistry I had enough Musketmen and forts to fend off the Roman legionaries and knights. The roads connecting every fortress I controlled allowed me to reinforce wherever they attacked and completely crush any attempted attacks they made with counterattacking longbowman.
It is just now the industrial period, my cities have all swelled to size 21 with my infusion of old workers, and I have two musketmen and a cannon guarding each possible entrance to my territory. This in addition to the railroad network now covering my land and making troops movement from fort to fort so easy, I am virtually impenetrable.
I'm now building up an army of cavalry to make the Romans pay for their deeds, but I was just thinking how even more effective this strategy would be with the Germans, hence the title.
With them, you could build up an army of panzers, easily the most powerful unit in their time, and blitz through anyone's defenses without fear of leaving enough troops behind to prevent the pillaging of your land.
Yes, it may be even more overextensive than the maginot line, but it seems to work fine for me.
Anyone have any comments?
But it wasn´t the strat... It toke me to long to expand and my fello countries overun me...
