MarigoldRan
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It's possible with a good map.
Requirements: Ruins of Patria for +2 happiness and extra production.
Start near Coast and Lakes with hills near the capital.
Tectonics Map, Huge, 30% Water. Epic Speed.
Fishing first, which you should get around turn 40. Warrior, warrior, warrior, warrior, settler. No need for workers.
Spam fishing boats.
Research Ancient Chants and Mysticism for God King.
Then tech straight for Way of the Wicked and slavery. YOU DON'T NEED TO BUILD WORKERS because first you have no worker techs, and second: your workers will be slaves. This saves a huge amount of hammers and beakers.
Once you have slavery, tech mining. Since it's a tectonics map, there's a lot of hills so mining is the most useful tech. In the process, you'll also pick up agriculture, which is useful for farms and granaries.
Then corruption of spirit for happiness and Rosier for defense.
Then sailing for lighthouses, great lighthouse, and writing for library. Then foreign trade. Great Lighthouse + Foreign Trade means +4 trade routes for all of your coastal cities, which is what you would naturally get as Lanun anyways. By then you should have peacefully expanded to 6-8 cities with 12-16 pirate ports/coves/harbors dependent on coast position.
Research should be around +200/turn by turn 200.
Then research Fanaticism halfway followed by Infernal Pact. The order is important. You don't want to summon Hyperborem too early because in MNAI he's smart and prioritizes building the Infernal Grimoire. Normally he gets it within 15-20 turns of being spawned on epic speed, which means that you want to get the Grimoire within 10 turns upon spawning Hyperborem.
Save a Great Person. The moment you get infernal pact, Golden Age. Switch research to Fanaticism. Switch government to God King and build the Infernal Grimoire in your capital. By then, you could easily have 10-15 slaves just by killing barbs alone. If you planned it right, you should be able to beat Hypoborem for the Grimoire on the same turn you get Fanaticism. Cut forests, whip, sacrifice your slaves: do whatever to get the Grimoire.
Use the Grimoire to get Malovelent Designs.
Win with Mardero, Rosier, AV Priests (Ring of Fire) and Strength 16 Beasts of Agares against pathetically weak Strength 5-6 Swordsmen. To keep the game a challenge declare war on EVERYONE who isn't Ashen Veil because after all, you're evil.
Requirements: Ruins of Patria for +2 happiness and extra production.
Start near Coast and Lakes with hills near the capital.
Tectonics Map, Huge, 30% Water. Epic Speed.
Fishing first, which you should get around turn 40. Warrior, warrior, warrior, warrior, settler. No need for workers.
Spam fishing boats.
Research Ancient Chants and Mysticism for God King.
Then tech straight for Way of the Wicked and slavery. YOU DON'T NEED TO BUILD WORKERS because first you have no worker techs, and second: your workers will be slaves. This saves a huge amount of hammers and beakers.
Once you have slavery, tech mining. Since it's a tectonics map, there's a lot of hills so mining is the most useful tech. In the process, you'll also pick up agriculture, which is useful for farms and granaries.
Then corruption of spirit for happiness and Rosier for defense.
Then sailing for lighthouses, great lighthouse, and writing for library. Then foreign trade. Great Lighthouse + Foreign Trade means +4 trade routes for all of your coastal cities, which is what you would naturally get as Lanun anyways. By then you should have peacefully expanded to 6-8 cities with 12-16 pirate ports/coves/harbors dependent on coast position.
Research should be around +200/turn by turn 200.
Then research Fanaticism halfway followed by Infernal Pact. The order is important. You don't want to summon Hyperborem too early because in MNAI he's smart and prioritizes building the Infernal Grimoire. Normally he gets it within 15-20 turns of being spawned on epic speed, which means that you want to get the Grimoire within 10 turns upon spawning Hyperborem.
Save a Great Person. The moment you get infernal pact, Golden Age. Switch research to Fanaticism. Switch government to God King and build the Infernal Grimoire in your capital. By then, you could easily have 10-15 slaves just by killing barbs alone. If you planned it right, you should be able to beat Hypoborem for the Grimoire on the same turn you get Fanaticism. Cut forests, whip, sacrifice your slaves: do whatever to get the Grimoire.
Use the Grimoire to get Malovelent Designs.
Win with Mardero, Rosier, AV Priests (Ring of Fire) and Strength 16 Beasts of Agares against pathetically weak Strength 5-6 Swordsmen. To keep the game a challenge declare war on EVERYONE who isn't Ashen Veil because after all, you're evil.
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