Let's Play a Prince Game!

[awldune]

I messed around with this save a little but it's a very tough start. You have to research at least two techs to work any of your special tiles. Shaka nearby but no copper. Jungle lands to the north.

I settled for the horse to the south and chariot rushed Shaka. Good initial success taking his northern city but I got a string of bad rolls against the City Garrison Archer in his capital. Then the Impis started coming.

Probably would be better to wait for IW and Sword/Axe, or just keep him bottled up.

 

[mtr12]

Game won by chain-vassaling everyone and voting myself King via UN.

Tbh, I'm too lazy to write it up, but I will post savegames of various dates. Global techrate was incredibly slow because of no tech fiends or wonder whores. In fact, the game had Monty, Kublai, Alex, AND Shaka...

As for me, I think my biggest mistake in the midgame was getting obssessed with Sword/Catas and not building enough Workers to improve my commerce-based cities. This threw me into a bit of a tech stagnation, though I was still even with the top AI cause it's Prince.


I decided to move up to Monarch and play a game, and now I know why you guys told me not to selftech IW: the Monarch AI prioritizes it, and always has it ready for trade once you have Alpha.