Monarch Duel size, what not to do!

[Astax]

Hey this is the funniest thing that happened to me so far. I was playing on duel balanced monarch. I was Mongolian and I was facing Romans! So Im like, oh no best kill em quick before the damned swordmen start making rounds! I build a mighty war machine and was out rolling little cities with my Keshiks in no time while working to get catapult for the big cities. Finally got the catapult and all was going well, too well actually! I figured I would capture all the cities. So I picked up 4 AI cities that were fairly new to add to the 4 I already had. BIG MISTAKE. I was sieging one of his holy cities, he asked for peace I said hell no. And didnt even realized I was running into red on 0% tech! All those damned cities I picked up where making me go into red before you counted my army. With my army I was losing so much gold that before I finished tearing down his defenses my catapult was disbanded! OH OH in turns after that I lost almost all my keshiks and the AI took back 3 cities I took from him! It was game over pretty much :/ So I elected to quit.

Lesson learned! Burn it to the ground!

 

[FriendlyFire]

Lesson learned! Burn it to the ground!

Build lots of Homesteads

 

[Masquerouge]

Hey this is the funniest thing that happened to me so far. I was playing on duel balanced monarch. I was Mongolian and I was facing Romans! So Im like, oh no best kill em quick before the damned swordmen start making rounds! I build a mighty war machine and was out rolling little cities with my Keshiks in no time while working to get catapult for the big cities. Finally got the catapult and all was going well, too well actually! I figured I would capture all the cities. So I picked up 4 AI cities that were fairly new to add to the 4 I already had. BIG MISTAKE. I was sieging one of his holy cities, he asked for peace I said hell no. And didnt even realized I was running into red on 0% tech! All those damned cities I picked up where making me go into red before you counted my army. With my army I was losing so much gold that before I finished tearing down his defenses my catapult was disbanded! OH OH in turns after that I lost almost all my keshiks and the AI took back 3 cities I took from him! It was game over pretty much :/ So I elected to quit.

Lesson learned! Burn it to the ground!

I don't quite get how you can have that many cities on a duel map

 

[Not_Bob]

I don't quite get how you can have that many cities on a duel map

you could put the citys the minimum (two grid squares away) and you could end up with(if all the grid was land,) almost 100 citys so this player could have been playinglow sea level which would have made this many citys easily possible

 

[Astax]

When I play Balanced Duel size which is one landmass with 4 players, its easy to squeeze 4 cities in This city number isnt that ridiculous. AI tends to put his cities 3-4 tiels apart thou. I usualy do 2 tiles when I go for early conquest. Trytrollign the map yourself you'lls ee its quite spacious Temperate Balanced Duel with sea level at Medium. Its a good map and very spacious for 2 players, and at the same time close enough to have early wars.