How to beat Settler, Chieftain, Warlord

[pspboy7]

If only the computer could properly settle, yeah maybe then hehe.

 

[Optical]

I remember this thread

 

[stfoskey12]

How to beat settler:
Generally alternate between building military units and settlers, while training a few workers and scouts/explorers. Let your workers build whatever, but make sure you have horses and iron. Send the settlers to the blue circles (if there aren't any, use your best judgement). When all of the land is built up, train only military units for about 20 turns and attack the weakest civilization. Recover as much as necessary and attack the next weakest civilization. Also, found a religion, spread it with missionaries, and adopt organized religion to improve your culture. Avoid going into debt.

How to beat chieftain:
Do it the same way, but with two military units defending each city, spend about 30-40 turns preparing your city, build walls in cities where you might be attacked, and bombard your enemies defenses before attacking.

How to beat warlord:
Playing as Japan and trying to conquer India, got 1 city, have a bad economy... (doing OK, work in progress)

 

[Ataxerxes]

How to beat settler:
Generally alternate between building military units and settlers, while training a few workers and scouts/explorers. Let your workers build whatever, but make sure you have horses and iron. Send the settlers to the blue circles (if there aren't any, use your best judgement). When all of the land is built up, train only military units for about 20 turns and attack the weakest civilization. Recover as much as necessary and attack the next weakest civilization. Also, found a religion, spread it with missionaries, and adopt organized religion to improve your culture. Avoid going into debt.

How to beat chieftain:
Do it the same way, but with two military units defending each city, spend about 30-40 turns preparing your city, build walls in cities where you might be attacked, and bombard your enemies defenses before attacking.

How to beat warlord:
Playing as Japan and trying to conquer India, got 1 city, have a bad economy... (doing OK, work in progress)

Too many details. Besides, you don't need two military units in most cities and walls are usually a poor choice of builds - especially on low levels where the AI is unlikely to attack. Bombard City Defenses is a Warlord to Immortal thing.

I'd rather go the other way and take India to conquer Japan. Taking Japan makes the game harder (they usually figure highly in the "worst civ" polls". Founding early religions is a bad habit to get into. I'd rather take the religion of my neighbor (either as an ally or just take his holy city). Above Chieftain and scouts/explorers start to lose their lustre.

 

[Terrance888]

How to beat Deity
Keep the entire War Academy on tab. Refer constantly.

 

[Archon_Wing]

Monarch and Below:

-- Build Calvary and seek their stack
-- lol@ their pitiful attempts until they start pulling rifles out of nowhere

 

[GGracchus]

How to beat all difficulties: Make sure lock modified assets are off, go into worldbuilder, spawn yourself 5-10 modern armor next to all other civs, declare war, wipe them out, settle, and wait a few turns.

 

[Chode]

I still can't beat settler! The strategy guide says to build six of them, but when I do, they just get killed by barbarians! Do I need to build more? Is there a lower difficulty level? HELP!

 

[mtr12]

Let me try this.


All advice includes advice of other levels.

Settler:
Build a Settler

Chieftain:
Build a Worker and Warrior

Warlord:
Build cities near resources

Noble:
Spam cottages (or farms)

Prince:
Build Courthouses

Monarch:
Learn to trade techs, REX, play the AI and Map, etc

Emperor:
I'm only a Monarch

Immortal:
AP Diplo

Deity:
DoW everyone, go into Worldbuilder, and plop a lion on every city.
If they can be "Deities", so can you!