Tomoyo
Fate
I find gold not important early on. Contacts are enough to keep you even in tech.Pentium said:
Monarch is Easy?
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CoolioVonHoolio
Quit WoW, back to Civ.
heck no monarch is not easy! ive only beaten it once in 3 games ive played on it but im playing a game right now on it on a world map... im in north america and settled the whole continent. but the spaniards have settled all of south america and i am at war with them now and its been a stalemate for a long time. wars are alot harder im monarch.
CoolioVonHoolio said:
Don't worry Coolio! Don't worry aobut other people's view of easy and hard. This is agame, have fun, enjoy it.
Go to a chess tournament and you can find strength between absolute beginners and grandmasters. I can't beat a master let alone a grandmaster and can beat many of the beginners.
We all play chess because we enjoy it, and we do the best we can to attain excellence. Don't worry if others play CIV at differnt levels. Do the best you can and enjoy it. And I assure you if you play a lot, you willg et better.
Breunor
Pentium
Digital Matter
We all play for fun. Don't worry about level, the joy is the same, no matter which level you beat.
whereagles
Chieftain
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I play PTW on monarch and win some, lose some. The thing that annoys me is I can't win unless I do some serious warmongering in the ancient age. Though I'm slowly getting the grips of it, and believe I could fare better in a city-even situation now.
JackRules
incompertus vapulus
I just started my 4th Monarch game (I don't believe I've won yet at Monarch) and it looks like I had a good shot at Space until I got into a stupid war with China. I took one city (with rubber) and Mao isn't doing anything to me, but I've probably lost my slight advantage in the tech race and will fail to win the game. This is my first CIV game since last fall and I just don't play enough to do well. I frankly don't see Monarch as a whole lot tougher than regent, but it will still punish the player that doesn't do certain basic things required to win. Bottom line: the toughest level is the one you are unable to win at right now.
Pentium
Digital Matter
I never go to war in AA unless I am Persia/Rome. I lose those wars.whereagles said:
A strategy to consider is building 10 shield warriors and then connect your iron for a mass cash upgrade to these (30 shield) sword UU's. Since the military defense advances don't start popping till MA (pikes) this can be a devastating technique against almost any AI for a long time.
gunkulator
Emperor
Pentium said:I never go to war in AA unless I am Persia/Rome. I lose those wars.
What about the Iroquois and Celts?
I also find Monarch easy. The big jump for me is when the AI first gets an extra settler. It then expands so much faster.
Without the demigod levle, Emperor to Deity was the biggest jump for me. Dont know now...
In my current deity game, I managed to expand as fast as the AIs (they got to 3-4 cities when I had 1, but I got to 7 cities at the same time as them, and same with 10, 12, 15 cities. I had a 4 turn settler pump to do it.
The most important skill is knowing how to broker tech with the AIs. This is more important than anything else, imo. (Ok, if you dont know how to build a settler, that is more important).
Also, important in this is going and finding all the AIs. This often involves getting a couple early ships scouting in different directions, possibly suiciding through an ocean to find land.
In my current game, all 4 AIs on my continent found each other (with their tons of units) before I could find them. So they swapped all their tech first. I scouted to the other continent (70% water continents map) with a couple suicide curraghs, and found the other AIs. Those AIs on the other continent had Philosophy and Polytheism, which no AI on my continent had. I bought Polytheism for several hundred gold, traded it to every AI on my continent for a bunch of tech. Then, no AI on the other continent had MapMaking. I spend several hundred on that, and traded it to the AIs on the other continent for Philosophy and some other techs I was missing. Then I came back to the AIs on my Island and traded Philosophy for the rest of the tech and to recoup some money. I spend a few hundred gold to go from having gained only writing (10% sicence for 50 turns), to tech parity (near done with the age).
I then went and researched Literature. I held it to myself for awhile, and then swapped it for Currency, Construction and (with some money) Republic. Then swapped those to various AIs to get money, and was in the next age. As a scientific Civ (Sumerians) I now had a 1 tech lead, and due to my 4 turn settler pump, had parity in #cities as well.
Without the demigod levle, Emperor to Deity was the biggest jump for me. Dont know now...
In my current deity game, I managed to expand as fast as the AIs (they got to 3-4 cities when I had 1, but I got to 7 cities at the same time as them, and same with 10, 12, 15 cities. I had a 4 turn settler pump to do it.
The most important skill is knowing how to broker tech with the AIs. This is more important than anything else, imo. (Ok, if you dont know how to build a settler, that is more important).
Also, important in this is going and finding all the AIs. This often involves getting a couple early ships scouting in different directions, possibly suiciding through an ocean to find land.
In my current game, all 4 AIs on my continent found each other (with their tons of units) before I could find them. So they swapped all their tech first. I scouted to the other continent (70% water continents map) with a couple suicide curraghs, and found the other AIs. Those AIs on the other continent had Philosophy and Polytheism, which no AI on my continent had. I bought Polytheism for several hundred gold, traded it to every AI on my continent for a bunch of tech. Then, no AI on the other continent had MapMaking. I spend several hundred on that, and traded it to the AIs on the other continent for Philosophy and some other techs I was missing. Then I came back to the AIs on my Island and traded Philosophy for the rest of the tech and to recoup some money. I spend a few hundred gold to go from having gained only writing (10% sicence for 50 turns), to tech parity (near done with the age).
I then went and researched Literature. I held it to myself for awhile, and then swapped it for Currency, Construction and (with some money) Republic. Then swapped those to various AIs to get money, and was in the next age. As a scientific Civ (Sumerians) I now had a 1 tech lead, and due to my 4 turn settler pump, had parity in #cities as well.
Pentium
Digital Matter
Iroqouis are the only civ I haven't played with. I don't know why. And no Celts in Vanilla.gunkulator said:
Beorn-eL-Feared
Idiot riding pedals
Iroquois and celts are BEASTS in AA, gunk. That simple.gunkulator said:
citizen001
Banned
The bonuses on monarch are too small to matter that's why it may seem easy.
whereagles
Chieftain
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I have to go to war in ancient age because I play on tiny maps.. too many neighbours lol. Now I started a small map and do the usual settler rush. Then prey on the weak and that's it.
tR1cKy
taking over the world
er.. i knew that.vmxa said:
Monarch -> Emperor : 1 content citizen less.
Emperor -> Deity: 1 extra settler for the enemies
What i was saying is that, for me, the transition from Monarch to Emperor has been more painful than the successive step. 1 content face less has forced me to rethink a major part of my strategy.
