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[Defiance]

"The save is attached at the bottom of the page. Note that I used the PerfectWorld Map Script."

Here is a photo of the world.

and one of the resource layout, notice I only have horse and elephant.

Here is a shot of my cities.

Military..

 

[johncross21]

what's the problem

you need to wage war to get iron ?

get some cats (cats plus elephants)

 

[shyuhe]

what do you want help with? Your empire is a little small for 790 AD so I would war given this situation.

edit: ah, overcrowded map. War with catapults or trebuchets. I don't think either require iron.

 

[Gooblah]

Take out Carthage ASAP!
Its culture is doing the most damage, and has a smaller empire then the rest.
Mob Seige and Mounted Units. Then send em on a total blitzkrieg.
Once you have iron, mass Maces while beelining for Gunpowder or Rifling.
After that, pound down Sumer (is that Sumer or Babylon) into the dust.

 

[Defiance]

I kinda want you guys to take a look at the save and tell me what I'm doing wrong and what I'm doing right so I can find out what I need to work on.

 

[Divaythsarmour]

I kinda want you guys to take a look at the save and tell me what I'm doing wrong and what I'm doing right so I can find out what I need to work on.

I took a look at your game. It looks like your play style is to build wonders as you work on out-teching your opponents. That's not a bad idea in general. You might want to go with an industrious leader to do that.

Play to your strengths. In this situation, tiny map, epic speed, creative/organized leader - the early game priority would be to expand quickly. If you can't resist going for a wonder, then I would go for Stonehenge after second bronze city (to further boost your creative trait). The massive culture will help you cut off territory from the AI.

I would push your number of cities as high as you can in the very beginning (while maintaining a little cushion on your slider). Everyone says don't go under 50%. I would say that with this leader, you can safely go to 30% as long as you work on infrastructure ASAP. Get COL ASAP. Build those cheap courthouses ASAP.

I played a game with this leader on Noble, standard, normal speed, continents. My closest neighbor was Ceasar. I beelined iron (as I didn't want to be battling praetorians). And once I had swordsman, I took out all of his cities. I didn't even burn them, I kept them all. My slider went to 0 and I even began losing units. But once Ceasar was gone, I had the whole continent to myself. I not only recovered my economy, but eventually out teched everyone else and won a space victory. It was fun.

 

[Defiance]

The way the game went was that I started it up and noticed the crazy seafood around the capital and the hills for tons of production, knowing the map was set to a tiny size with 9 people (PerfectWorld spawns large maps) I looked at the map and saw the large area of floodplains and decided it was mine so I wrote "Mine" over it and then dropped two cities before the AI had a chance to.

and I just spilled Mountain Dew on my jeans and keyboard..

I then noticed I had no resources other then horse and elephant so I decided to grab archery, horseback riding, construction.

Seeing that my capital was going to be working around 5 seafood tiles during certain periods of time I decided I wanted to maximize its output considering the tiny land mass and small empires. I decided that it was better to go for the oracle and slingshot metal casting then to research it myself since it was going to be around 51+ turns. So I built the oracle, the colossus, and then the moai statues.

I built the pyramids just because it popped up on the screen and I saw it was only going to be sum 28 turns or so to complete and since I had settled vast lands of floodplains and my capital was packed with sushi I decided to nab it for specialists.

I'm building the great library because it's tight.. and cheap

I just got elephants online but I'm going to build a force as I can and attack delhi, it's a double holy city of both major religions.

I've basically just been slaving the entire populations of the floodplains up until now.

I was thinking of using the floodplains cities as slave farms and then convert them into later game commerce cities and using my capital as a super production city to fuel a military campaign, prob run bureaucracy.

 

[Divaythsarmour]

Yeah it's a pretty nice capitol. I love all of those mines. Hopefully, you can grab that iron from Gandhi ASAP. That will open you up to all of the opportunity you're going to need for the time being. The good news, is that Hannibal doesn't appear to have any iron either. So once you get it, you can take care of him. wouldn't those two orange cities look better in green?

How long has Montezuma been at war with you? He's tenacious. It's like he's willing to spoil things no matter what the cost to him.

I agree with what other people have written. You may want to think about building a big army of siege weapons and elephants now and go get that iron. Heck if you can do that, you might as well take everything Gandhi has.

I see that your score is the highest.

I'm going to go back to my recent game as Boudica, Prince, small map, marathon. I recently managed a conquest victory at around 180 BC with her on a tiny map. I wanna explore some of the parameters around the conquest victory strategy.

For instance, instead of doing that early quick rush (that's so popular), I like to build Stonehenge, the Great Wall and Oracle first. Then I do a prolonged war, capturing capitols, burning the smaller cities and basically raising hell. With aggressive and charismatic traits, it's a really sound strategy. I send 80% of the workers to build roads to the front lines from my capitol, second city and first captured AI capitol (pumping out the gallic warriors). It's kind of liberating in that you don't have to think too much about your tech path. I just watch the slider and try not to dip to 0. I'll attach it if you want to play around with it. Gilgamesh's axemem are pretty tough.

Hey, careful with that Mountain Dew! I just got done watching the Pats trounce the Cowboys. Yes, Go Pats!