I tried Abegweit's strategy many times. Used to work well in Warlords but in BtS it just wouldn't work. So I tried another way.
Basically, Abegweit is right when he says that Takashilla is the key to victory. It's so important in BtS in fact that I suggest to simply skip founding Delhi. Sure you lose two precious turn right at the beginning but you'll save the time it takes to build a settler. Plus it's a much better spot to found a city. more commerce, food and no jungle. And later on when the time comes to found Delhi you can place it east of the ivory so it will be able to work the iron hill and become a production center.
Once founded, I build 2 warriors. When the population reach 3, switch to a worker. Once done it will hook up the marble tile. After that I usually finish my warrior and then build the temple of artemis when I get polytheism. The free priest will come handy to get that great prophet.
The science path is the same as Abegweit by the way. Masonry, Polytheism, Monotheism, Hinduism, Priesthood, etc....
I get Judaism at turn 38. Swtich to Organized religion when you do and choose a religion. Or at least when you are finished building the warriors and ready to build the temple or artemis.
Get Priesthood and switch to production to the two temples (I usually don't even have to whip them out... don't seem to matter anyway). After that complete the temple of artemis and build the oracle.
Don't forget to send those warriors to get all the goody huts while making their way to europe. You will need them to make contact with europe, Greece and Carthage to trade for techs. You will need to get writing from them. Or maybe research it yourself if they won't trade for it. Just remember to never trade Hinduism, Polytheism and Priesthood to the Greeks before you build the oracle, otherwise they will beat you to it.
So there you have it. At this point you should have your 5 religions and get a nice golden age.
For that final goal what you need is to build a stack of elephants and send them to china. Otherwise they will beat you to the population goal. Do as in Abegweit's strategy, switch religion to be friendly to the persians, settle delhi east of the ivory (to get that iron). Trade for iron working while you research mathematics, construction and horseback riding. You have to send those elephants fast to china so they won't have time to get Pikemans and usually they'll be pretty easy to collapse.
Fill up the continent and with all the health ressources hooked up you should have no difficulty achieving a historical victory.
Let me know if it worked for you... I am thinking of updating the wiki if the strategy turns out to be reliable enough.
Basically, Abegweit is right when he says that Takashilla is the key to victory. It's so important in BtS in fact that I suggest to simply skip founding Delhi. Sure you lose two precious turn right at the beginning but you'll save the time it takes to build a settler. Plus it's a much better spot to found a city. more commerce, food and no jungle. And later on when the time comes to found Delhi you can place it east of the ivory so it will be able to work the iron hill and become a production center.
Once founded, I build 2 warriors. When the population reach 3, switch to a worker. Once done it will hook up the marble tile. After that I usually finish my warrior and then build the temple of artemis when I get polytheism. The free priest will come handy to get that great prophet.
The science path is the same as Abegweit by the way. Masonry, Polytheism, Monotheism, Hinduism, Priesthood, etc....
I get Judaism at turn 38. Swtich to Organized religion when you do and choose a religion. Or at least when you are finished building the warriors and ready to build the temple or artemis.
Get Priesthood and switch to production to the two temples (I usually don't even have to whip them out... don't seem to matter anyway). After that complete the temple of artemis and build the oracle.
Don't forget to send those warriors to get all the goody huts while making their way to europe. You will need them to make contact with europe, Greece and Carthage to trade for techs. You will need to get writing from them. Or maybe research it yourself if they won't trade for it. Just remember to never trade Hinduism, Polytheism and Priesthood to the Greeks before you build the oracle, otherwise they will beat you to it.
So there you have it. At this point you should have your 5 religions and get a nice golden age.
For that final goal what you need is to build a stack of elephants and send them to china. Otherwise they will beat you to the population goal. Do as in Abegweit's strategy, switch religion to be friendly to the persians, settle delhi east of the ivory (to get that iron). Trade for iron working while you research mathematics, construction and horseback riding. You have to send those elephants fast to china so they won't have time to get Pikemans and usually they'll be pretty easy to collapse.
Fill up the continent and with all the health ressources hooked up you should have no difficulty achieving a historical victory.
Let me know if it worked for you... I am thinking of updating the wiki if the strategy turns out to be reliable enough.
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