What have we got here?
Japanese on small map.... looks like we'll see some fighting.
Well, the starting pos looks not very good to me, though we have a luxury nearby, which kind of saves the day. I moved my worker up into the desert tile, in hope of finding fresh water, but I ónly see more desert :-(. built two warriors, sent the first one to the east to find nothing but a chinese warrior, with whom I trade some techs. the other one scouts to the north to find a hut, with gold in it and to scout the chinese border, where i see an archer guiding a settler towards me. I immediately move my first warrior up north too and wait for the chinses to build there city. I attack and the first warrior is victorius but the city is raised automatically :-(. for the next couple turns do some micro to fight of some chinese troops while i build two citys north of my capital and build barracks there. meanwhile the French have appeared on the scene, who seem to be settled northe of the chinese, as i can't see their border.
Then the one thing that I feared most happens. France and China ally up and attack. I fight of all their attacks winning a couple elite battles without a getting a leader, but I realize that this is status quo. They cant break down mey defense and I cant go attack the chinese alone as the french troops march through chinese territory. I try to make peace, but its to expensive, so I keep the war alive for another couple turns, until I see a swordsman marching towards Tokio. This is a pretty good argument for making peace despite the high price and so it is done.
I now have only three cities, am behind in tech little and didn't even get a leader through all the fighting early on.
But the situation has an upside too. Even in my small territory I have horses and iron, which combines to Samurais.
I'll try to grab as many land as possible now and keep up with tech until I get chivalry.
THEN AN INFERNO WILL BE UNLEASHED UPON ALL OF JAPANS ENEMIES!
Looks like this game is going to be fun and a good challenge - thx matrix
FACEMAN
Japanese on small map.... looks like we'll see some fighting.
Well, the starting pos looks not very good to me, though we have a luxury nearby, which kind of saves the day. I moved my worker up into the desert tile, in hope of finding fresh water, but I ónly see more desert :-(. built two warriors, sent the first one to the east to find nothing but a chinese warrior, with whom I trade some techs. the other one scouts to the north to find a hut, with gold in it and to scout the chinese border, where i see an archer guiding a settler towards me. I immediately move my first warrior up north too and wait for the chinses to build there city. I attack and the first warrior is victorius but the city is raised automatically :-(. for the next couple turns do some micro to fight of some chinese troops while i build two citys north of my capital and build barracks there. meanwhile the French have appeared on the scene, who seem to be settled northe of the chinese, as i can't see their border.
Then the one thing that I feared most happens. France and China ally up and attack. I fight of all their attacks winning a couple elite battles without a getting a leader, but I realize that this is status quo. They cant break down mey defense and I cant go attack the chinese alone as the french troops march through chinese territory. I try to make peace, but its to expensive, so I keep the war alive for another couple turns, until I see a swordsman marching towards Tokio. This is a pretty good argument for making peace despite the high price and so it is done.
I now have only three cities, am behind in tech little and didn't even get a leader through all the fighting early on.
But the situation has an upside too. Even in my small territory I have horses and iron, which combines to Samurais.
I'll try to grab as many land as possible now and keep up with tech until I get chivalry.
THEN AN INFERNO WILL BE UNLEASHED UPON ALL OF JAPANS ENEMIES!
Looks like this game is going to be fun and a good challenge - thx matrix
FACEMAN