I won on Monarch 3 times on a row: first time in a tiny map with only 2 ennemies. I conquered some part of the first, that gave me ground access to the second that i conquered fully. Won Domination. The second, on a small map, expanded with zeal and start to build an army for Ragnar not to conquer me. I declared war and suicided my cannons against a big stack of infantry and cavalry, the whole Ragnar army, and finished them with my infantry in 2 or 3 turns, then i ask for capitulation and... he accepted! Did the same with Alexander far west, but with tanks, and he accepted capitualtion only after 1 or 2 city razed/conquered. I won a Conquest victory! Last game, on normal size (continent), i expanded and found Ganghi very near of me. After having built a small army of cats and eles, i declared war and took his capital, his other two cities (an average one and a crappy one) capituled. Then i went to Egypt, i conquered the whole egypt except 2 cities. With Rifles, i went to the last ennemy of my continent, and then again he capituled when my war weariness war high. (and i asked another bonus city with the capitualtion. The marvelous thing with capitulation is that our city borders always overlap the one of our vassals. Justinien 1er, on the other continent, declared war on me since he had a sea advantage. He killed first my missile launcher battleships with two destroyers each time, then i decided to put them in pairs to protect my ressources (sea ressources plus 2 oils). The funny thing with gound oil, that i had, is that it can't be taken away by other continent enemies, while sea oil can't be taken away by gound spies. That's why it is better to have both of them. This bastard of Justinian 1er had Huyana Capac as a vassal and Charlemagne as a friend, the whole other continent was at war with me and my weak vassals. Justinien 1er send a plane porter to pillage my aluminium ressource. I destroyed it with the help of bomber. Indeed, my continental production was very; very efficient, while my coastal production was painfull. Good, but not miraculous, and needed at lest 10 turns to me take the advantadge on sea. Then Justinien and the others declared peace. To build transporters and escort was pretty long, in comparison of my continental cities to build forges, plants and Appollo program. I had pretty much nothing to build except than modern tanks or gold when i was still building my sea army. That's why it should be good to be able in Civ5 to build sea units with continental cities. Whatever. I built the space ship and launched it, because when i conquered the first Justinien 1er city, and nuked his second, it appears that he had the laser defense and nuke himself (he nuked a whole stack of mine, with mobile artillery, many helicopters (my cavs upgraded). It seems Justinien could see where they were. So in Civ 5, i wish the AI can't know by advance where our troops are, unless he spend something in spying. Well, i won this game by Space Race. In the three Monarch games, my score was around 25000 (normalized, and around 5000-6000 non normalized.
I aim to play an Emperor game soon.
I am reborning with Civ 4. Not so long away, I couldn't win a Monarch game. Now that i learn to cottage very soon, I can do war without my reasearch to fall to 0% for more than 20 turns. It seems that i learned some way to drive a good game now. But in Civ 5, i wouldn't mind if the game mechanics are simpler to understand.
Anyway, i find now that Civ 4 is a great game, because i have fun, at last.
. I'm going for immortal level EQM though and already won a large/epic for the current one...
Going to win a few games on Noble soon and I will move up.
