Good strats on conq/dom wins on continent maps on emperor?

chrmarker

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It seems that continent maps is much more difficult than terra maps or any other maps where all civs start on the same landmass.

It seems very easy to win dom/conq on small terra maps on emperor with the same setting.

On small continents maps you typically start on the same continent as 1 or rarely 2 civs or more rarely, alone.

The problem as I see It is that to be successfull on emperor you need to capture an enemy capital early. If you only have one neighbor, that means war with youre only techtrade partner until caravels. That puts you back techwise.

After you have conq. youre continent you have to wait until you can build an invasion fleet to continue war. That means a bunch of galleons and most often you have to wait until transports/destroyers/infantry to have an effective invasion army againt the more advanced AI. That gives the AI time to "runaway" and if one civ have a couple of vassals its powergraph has maybe gone crazy and you have a rough time succeding in any invasion attempt. Or maybe some civ on the other cont. is already building spaceship parts at the time youre invasion army is ready.

Just wantes to share my experience and hear youre comments :)
 
The problem as I see It is that to be successfull on emperor you need to capture an enemy capital early. If you only have one neighbor, that means war with youre only techtrade partner until caravels. That puts you back techwise.

You need 2 AI's on your continent to be able to trade. So killing the only other one doesn't matter. Anyway, get your continent up and running as soon as possible. (kill the others AI's in it) If it's a 4 Civ continent, you might be able to get Domination with just that, most likely you have to launch a naval invasion to complete it. I usually don't bother with that and just do a space ship win after conquering my continent. (too much hassle planning naval invasions)
 
Why do i need 2 other AI's to techtrade. It will be more effective with 2 but I cant see why i need 2?
 
Why do i need 2 other AI's to techtrade. It will be more effective with 2 but I cant see why i need 2?

The lone AI won't trade with you. He needs to know another AI to consider trading with you. (Silly rule i know, but thats how it works)
 
Go Peter (Russia) > Run FE/SE and bulb your way to Cossacks > Kill . .. .. .. .


Im playing warlords. The only difference between cavalry and cossacks in warlords is that cossacks get +50 att against mounted units. In vanlilla youre strat would work much better :)

By the waym, I know that SE means specialist economy but what is FE?
 
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