Monarch AW on cooked map

[mehike]

I wanted to try out AW, but since I'm not deity player, I made a monarch map.
I wanted my first try to be on the easy side, so I cooked the map a little. (which is alot easier than regenerating map 1000 times )

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Basically I added stone and marble. Made a good 2nd city spot on the eastern hill. (which is showing on screenshot). And also moved one AI a little, so there is a ton of room to expand (due south)

Here's the start:

and settings: (wang Kon of mali)

I am already halfway through and it's lot of fun. I haven't had so many arhers in any of my previous games

 

[michmbk]

I messed around with it - it's so annoying when you settle a hill city that invites the AI to attack it, only to watch them go right by you to pillage. I had to build a few extra longbows & horse archers to deal with that until I could chop all the trees. Once I chopped away the forests, the AI started attacking my hill city closest to Ragnar, which allowed me to turtle with a few longbows & skirmishers. I wish they would make it so the AI would only attack cities in AW games. Anyway, still won after a long slog. Basically wonderspammed in the capital - I ended up self-teching divine right to get religion after someone must have bulbed philo.

Ended up building AP with a great engineer, which I thought would be worth it since it meant all the islamic temples & monasteries were worth hammers too. Took assembly line from lib, and then upgraded about 25 rifles to infantry over the next 4-5 turns. With all the GGs, I had two cities churning out 3 promo units basically every turn, and the rout was on from there - I don't think anyone else ever hit rifling. Spies, infantry & tanks did the trick.

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Builds & kills - not a bad kill ratio - lost about 15 units and killed about 600:

 

[GenerallyGreat]

I gotta try this.

 

[mehike]

I finished my game too now.
I managed to make GW and oracle CoL for the holy city.
One of my archers from the start managed to survive til the end, with 2nd! exp bar.
After getting 50 exp it went back to 1 :O
He could (almost) singlehandedly kill a stack of 5 cannons and 5 cavalry.

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VERY BIG version of the pic (~10mb)

http://www.upload.ee/image/1561094/Dom.png

 

[mehike]

Builds & kills - not a bad kill ratio - lost about 15 units and killed about 600:

damn, mine was ALOT worse:

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[obsolete]

Hmm, looks like you forgot to turn tech-trades off...

 

[strijder20]

Builds & kills - not a bad kill ratio - lost about 15 units and killed about 600:

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From what I can see, you killed at least 900
Congratulations!

 

[Htadus]

Now this is what I call a fun always war game. I played untill cannons when I got a Domination win. The map was very generous to AI and it was great capturing those cities. I do not think having tech trading ON did not make a difference. AI lagged behind badly.

The same turn of win, this came up.

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Followed by

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The Capital

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