Mack_Jagger
Warlord
Leader, Darius; Difficulty Monarch; Speed, Epic.
In this fractal map I started of with a pretty big chunk of land for my self and made contact with Gilly in the south pretty quickly. I decided to wonderspam a bit since I had both stone and marble and no immidiate military threath (barbs turned of). Therafter i rexed like crazy but was puzzled with the emergence of summerian citys on my land mass, I certainly couldn´'t reach his territory before caravels.
In this game i decided to go for a CE, because of Darius fininacial trait. Tech wise im keeping up quit good but I lost out on the liberalism race.
I'm posting this because the same pattern seems to emerge in most of my games lately. I'm starting on my own land mass, not completly isolated because my cultural boarders meet another civ's over the water. Sometimes I can reach other civs through som island hopping. I have controll of the events and my own actions during the early game but in midgame it all starts to slip away.
In this post it hasn't come to that yet but I'm getting to that stage when I do stuff with out having a clear plan. I allways considered these semi isolated starts as great since I love to build and wonder spam at my own leisure but now I'm not so sure.
Maybe I'm singled minded but my usuall playing style is to tech to an military advantage, unit spam and then attack. That don't work quite so well when starting of on a separate land mass. I'm worried that before I get my attack force loaded up and shipped away to the proper coast my tech advantage will be gone (well I certainly doesn't have one in this game so it's kind of an theoretical discussion for now
).
I currently researching printing press, I'm financial, I got at lot of mature cottages so that make sense. There after I think of going after astronomy and gun powder. Guilds and construction I will try to trade for. One settler is in the pipe and one is already out walking. My economy is in fair shape and my workers are running out of stuff to do soit seems loke a good time to fill out some of those gaps in the map. Next priority is to load up the invasion force I will build in the meantime and knock out Washington. When you load the save you will notice that I'm already in war with him. That is kind of a phony war to strengthen the diplomatical situation with Saladin. My military defences is quite week but I'm buffing them up, just in case Washington shows up with a fleet of caravels. In any case it will not be a big force since he's tied up with the Saladin-War on his own landmass.
One big problem that has hurt me big time in this game is that buddism hasn't spread to me yet. Beeing in the late medeveal era with out an religion and all those usefull religious buldings really suck. I affects both diplomacy and my economy.
But anyway, take a look at the save and let me have it, wat kind of moron decisions have I done and what would I have done instead?
In this fractal map I started of with a pretty big chunk of land for my self and made contact with Gilly in the south pretty quickly. I decided to wonderspam a bit since I had both stone and marble and no immidiate military threath (barbs turned of). Therafter i rexed like crazy but was puzzled with the emergence of summerian citys on my land mass, I certainly couldn´'t reach his territory before caravels.
In this game i decided to go for a CE, because of Darius fininacial trait. Tech wise im keeping up quit good but I lost out on the liberalism race.
I'm posting this because the same pattern seems to emerge in most of my games lately. I'm starting on my own land mass, not completly isolated because my cultural boarders meet another civ's over the water. Sometimes I can reach other civs through som island hopping. I have controll of the events and my own actions during the early game but in midgame it all starts to slip away.
In this post it hasn't come to that yet but I'm getting to that stage when I do stuff with out having a clear plan. I allways considered these semi isolated starts as great since I love to build and wonder spam at my own leisure but now I'm not so sure.
Maybe I'm singled minded but my usuall playing style is to tech to an military advantage, unit spam and then attack. That don't work quite so well when starting of on a separate land mass. I'm worried that before I get my attack force loaded up and shipped away to the proper coast my tech advantage will be gone (well I certainly doesn't have one in this game so it's kind of an theoretical discussion for now
). I currently researching printing press, I'm financial, I got at lot of mature cottages so that make sense. There after I think of going after astronomy and gun powder. Guilds and construction I will try to trade for. One settler is in the pipe and one is already out walking. My economy is in fair shape and my workers are running out of stuff to do soit seems loke a good time to fill out some of those gaps in the map. Next priority is to load up the invasion force I will build in the meantime and knock out Washington. When you load the save you will notice that I'm already in war with him. That is kind of a phony war to strengthen the diplomatical situation with Saladin. My military defences is quite week but I'm buffing them up, just in case Washington shows up with a fleet of caravels. In any case it will not be a big force since he's tied up with the Saladin-War on his own landmass.
One big problem that has hurt me big time in this game is that buddism hasn't spread to me yet. Beeing in the late medeveal era with out an religion and all those usefull religious buldings really suck. I affects both diplomacy and my economy.
But anyway, take a look at the save and let me have it, wat kind of moron decisions have I done and what would I have done instead?
. I really do suck at naval invasions though, never seem to get my momentum up. Well it just needs some extra planing I guess, and som patience to get the hoard on line. I'll try it and see how it pans out. Usually in this situation I try to keep peaceful and tech to a space race win but it's really hard to keep up in the teach race with out more land than the AI. But hey I don't play this game because it's easy but because I like the challenge.
