budweiser
King of the Beers
The strat is to take advantage of your racial trait and collect a few free barb units early on to found the nucleus of an army. You will want to acquire 4 or 5 units that are buffed by the honor tree. This should be enough to enslave a nearby civ, not a CS. Dont ever attack those, once you have a few points in Honor and a decent army with a General, begin the Patronage tree to nurture strong relations with whatever flavor of CS you happen to need at the time; units, culture or food. I might suggest a culture CS first to help get some much needed Social Policies.
Money All those units are going to cost gold, so make sure you can build trading posts in Berlin as soon as the income rate starts to dip. Save all your money until such time as you can afford to buy an alliance with a CS.
Berlin Your capitol, make sure you have decent food and production. Make a scout first to learn the lay of the land and maybe pickup some weapons from huts. Go ahead and chop out a barrack before you make any real German soldiers. German literally means spear-man. Go for Mining and BW fairly early and make a German spear or two. Then get a few Horse units going if you can. Rely on Brutes for the rest of the army.
Expansion You dont want to get too many cites too early because that will impact the rate of Social Policies. Hold yourself to 1 if you want to claim a decent piece of land or block expansion.
Attack Choose a victim. Choose someone close, attack your way to his capitol, brutally killing everything in your path. You have 4-5 units (Example: warrior, spear, 2 brutes, archer, chariot) and a General from Warrior Code with Discipline. He has a rabble. Raze all cities, make a puppet from his cap. Rinse and repeat until you control the continent. Always improve your unit quality, not unit count. Delete old units and replace them with fresh modern horse troops from Berlin.
Attack again to kill your next neighbor. Raze all expansions, enslave cap. Continue along this line as long as it remains profitable. Found real German cities in empty places to claim all the luxuries on your side of the world.
Accumulate gold and foster relations with whatever CS are in your continent. Plan on attacking early using Brutes (First Reich), then attack with Landsknecth (Second Reich), and finish up with Panzer (Third Reich).
I am trying this now on Prince standard continents and it worked as described to kill Japan! I razed one city and enslaved his cap. Next on my block is Rammy and I hope to whack him before my Brutes go out of style. He currently has 3 cities, but I have 2, plus Japans cap (not sure if its Kyoto or Tokyo) plus I am allied with a cultural CS. Berlin can produce horseman.
Money All those units are going to cost gold, so make sure you can build trading posts in Berlin as soon as the income rate starts to dip. Save all your money until such time as you can afford to buy an alliance with a CS.
Berlin Your capitol, make sure you have decent food and production. Make a scout first to learn the lay of the land and maybe pickup some weapons from huts. Go ahead and chop out a barrack before you make any real German soldiers. German literally means spear-man. Go for Mining and BW fairly early and make a German spear or two. Then get a few Horse units going if you can. Rely on Brutes for the rest of the army.
Expansion You dont want to get too many cites too early because that will impact the rate of Social Policies. Hold yourself to 1 if you want to claim a decent piece of land or block expansion.
Attack Choose a victim. Choose someone close, attack your way to his capitol, brutally killing everything in your path. You have 4-5 units (Example: warrior, spear, 2 brutes, archer, chariot) and a General from Warrior Code with Discipline. He has a rabble. Raze all cities, make a puppet from his cap. Rinse and repeat until you control the continent. Always improve your unit quality, not unit count. Delete old units and replace them with fresh modern horse troops from Berlin.
Attack again to kill your next neighbor. Raze all expansions, enslave cap. Continue along this line as long as it remains profitable. Found real German cities in empty places to claim all the luxuries on your side of the world.
Accumulate gold and foster relations with whatever CS are in your continent. Plan on attacking early using Brutes (First Reich), then attack with Landsknecth (Second Reich), and finish up with Panzer (Third Reich).
I am trying this now on Prince standard continents and it worked as described to kill Japan! I razed one city and enslaved his cap. Next on my block is Rammy and I hope to whack him before my Brutes go out of style. He currently has 3 cities, but I have 2, plus Japans cap (not sure if its Kyoto or Tokyo) plus I am allied with a cultural CS. Berlin can produce horseman.
