R82
Chieftain
- Joined
- Dec 20, 2019
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In my most recent game - huge archipelago map, Noble difficulty - I started out sharing a fairly small landmass with Elizabeth. (I myself was playing as veBear's modded custom Civ the Minoans.) When I researched Bronze Working, I saw that there was no copper near me - the only copper resource was right next to the English border. I sighed and waited for Iron Working. When I researched Iron Working, I saw that there was no iron anywhere - I later learned that there was none at all on our landmass, though there was some on a nearby island. All I myself had easy access to was one horse resource. So I sighed, shrugged, and decided to bet everything on a massive Chariot rush. I mean, what else could I do?
Now here's where things got weird. First of all, it took Elizabeth forever to even research Bronze Working, so she never got around to using that copper resource near her border. Then, when I started the war, I saw that she hadn't even really prepared Archers - the first city I came across was defended by one Warrior. By the time I reached London, it was defended by Archers, but still not enough to resist my large number of Chariots. The last remaining of her cities, Nottingham, had more Archers, so I had to wait until I had Horseback Riding and send in Horse Archers to start the assault. But all in all, I still couldn't understand how I had won so easily. With my starting position, I myself should have been a low-hanging fruit for anyone with better resources.
Then, later in the game, it took everyone except me forever to research Gunpowder. I think it was the 18th or even 19th century before the first AI researched it. So what was going on? Is that kind of thing normal on that level?
Oh, and one final weird aspect of this particular game was that Elizabeth, who doesn't even start with Mysticism, somehow managed it to found Buddhism. Relatively late, too.
Now here's where things got weird. First of all, it took Elizabeth forever to even research Bronze Working, so she never got around to using that copper resource near her border. Then, when I started the war, I saw that she hadn't even really prepared Archers - the first city I came across was defended by one Warrior. By the time I reached London, it was defended by Archers, but still not enough to resist my large number of Chariots. The last remaining of her cities, Nottingham, had more Archers, so I had to wait until I had Horseback Riding and send in Horse Archers to start the assault. But all in all, I still couldn't understand how I had won so easily. With my starting position, I myself should have been a low-hanging fruit for anyone with better resources.
Then, later in the game, it took everyone except me forever to research Gunpowder. I think it was the 18th or even 19th century before the first AI researched it. So what was going on? Is that kind of thing normal on that level?
Oh, and one final weird aspect of this particular game was that Elizabeth, who doesn't even start with Mysticism, somehow managed it to found Buddhism. Relatively late, too.
