Immortal Quechua Rush

[Drool]

Ive been tryin a quechua rush on immortal playing on duel map size. What is the secret to this? If I declare war too early I don't have enough units, but i don't want to wait until they have more than one city. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[playshogi]

Move your settler to find your opponent then settle your city next to his, preferably on a plains hill with a forested plains hill available to work. This nets 5 hammers, so you can crank out quechas quickly. Generally, you need 2.5 quechas per archer defender, to guarantee victory.

 

[cabert]

what playshogi said
+ if you manage to squeeze the AI hard, he may not be able to found his second city
+ if you see a settler, attack him!

 

[sylvanllewelyn]

If you are very gutsy, on immortal, it's possible to do something even more awesome. Rather than taking out a couple AI's and then calling an end to the Quechua rush, you could send 2 Quechuas to each of your 5 opponants, and pillage EVERYTHING that they have, but don't take out cities. Fuel your research with pillage gold until you get oracle CoL, then go for blood.

 

[Drakken]

I personally patrol my quechas around the enemy territory waiting for a lowly worker to show up on the border then I declare war to steal the worker and proceed to tear up any improvements. I can usually pull this off on 3-4 computers at emperor level in the game. I've never played immortal so not sure how strong the comps are at that level. If you keep a quecha or two in an AI's city radius they will never settle a second city or improve anything. soon those comps are so far behind they are no longer a threat.

to start the game only build quechas over and over. the computer players will provide your workers and cities for you.