BarbarianArcher
Chieftain
- Joined
- Sep 6, 2010
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- 58
Somehow i'm winning! 
I played as Greece, and I guess I got an OK start. Luckily, I had a four Horse tile in my second ring.
I killed Wu with four Hoplites and a late Companion Cavalry to back up on the last city. I got a capital with two iron, fur, and a bunch of floodplains. The second city had marble, incense, and a handful of hills. The third just had one hill, wheat, and incense, so I razed it. Everything got puppeted.
I trained and bought 5 more Companion Cavalries. I also used a scout-Archer that hit a lucky Ruin. There was a GG in there, too. India was kind of close, and they had amassed an army (consisting of about three warriors, an archer, and two war elephants
), so it seemed natural to kill them. My Cavalries mowed through the weaklings (they all had melee strengths of warriors! Except for the archer, but that was worse off 
). I slaughtered the next city, then made my Cavalry all go to Delhi. In my way I found... A SPEARMAN! . Oh well. I killed it with two cavalries, let one stay behind to heal and Insta-Healed the other. I march on, and take Delhi. Then I kill the last city, defended by another spearman. It died. So did the city. I razed it. 
Right now there are three other civilizations. Russia, who seems to be a superpower. They have two routes to get at me: One which is northern, but takes much longer, and one that is southern, but most of the path is one tile long, making a good choke point.
Then, there is Arabia. The Military advisor tells me that "with our numbers, we can absolutely crush them". Is that normal for Deity?
Then, there is Monty. He's the only person who doesn't consider me a bloodthirsty warmongerer, and I get a good deal of money off of the two silver mines in my capital from him.
This is my course of action. I will completely eradicate Arabia, first and foremost. Monty's military is about the same as mine, so he goes next. That leaves me and Russia. I will probably get a nice garrison around my capital (everything else doesn't really matter by now) and then I will sneak my units into their capital, kill it, and win a Domination Victory!
But, really. I normally play on WARLORD. Is it normal that I can be doing fine (50 points better than Arabia, 25-30 points worse than Monty, 50-75 points worse than Cathy) even though I play on low difficulties?
I played as Greece, and I guess I got an OK start. Luckily, I had a four Horse tile in my second ring.
I killed Wu with four Hoplites and a late Companion Cavalry to back up on the last city. I got a capital with two iron, fur, and a bunch of floodplains. The second city had marble, incense, and a handful of hills. The third just had one hill, wheat, and incense, so I razed it. Everything got puppeted.
I trained and bought 5 more Companion Cavalries. I also used a scout-Archer that hit a lucky Ruin. There was a GG in there, too. India was kind of close, and they had amassed an army (consisting of about three warriors, an archer, and two war elephants
), so it seemed natural to kill them. My Cavalries mowed through the weaklings (they all had melee strengths of warriors! Except for the archer, but that was worse off ). I slaughtered the next city, then made my Cavalry all go to Delhi. In my way I found... A SPEARMAN! . Oh well. I killed it with two cavalries, let one stay behind to heal and Insta-Healed the other. I march on, and take Delhi. Then I kill the last city, defended by another spearman. It died. So did the city. I razed it. Right now there are three other civilizations. Russia, who seems to be a superpower. They have two routes to get at me: One which is northern, but takes much longer, and one that is southern, but most of the path is one tile long, making a good choke point.
Then, there is Arabia. The Military advisor tells me that "with our numbers, we can absolutely crush them". Is that normal for Deity?
Then, there is Monty. He's the only person who doesn't consider me a bloodthirsty warmongerer, and I get a good deal of money off of the two silver mines in my capital from him.
This is my course of action. I will completely eradicate Arabia, first and foremost. Monty's military is about the same as mine, so he goes next. That leaves me and Russia. I will probably get a nice garrison around my capital (everything else doesn't really matter by now) and then I will sneak my units into their capital, kill it, and win a Domination Victory!
But, really. I normally play on WARLORD. Is it normal that I can be doing fine (50 points better than Arabia, 25-30 points worse than Monty, 50-75 points worse than Cathy) even though I play on low difficulties?
