Monarch level France HELP

[BigNHuge]

Need some help guys.
Ive going to get the GL easily (20 more turns and no one knows literature.)
So what should i do.

Turn all research off and get th techs free, or should I research stil? This is a conquest only.

 

[mbrown]

If you are playing conquest, I would focus a significant science effort on my military technology - chivalry, gunpowder, cavalry - and nothing on the non-military science (the great library will look after those)

After you have researched cavalry, I would turn science way down, but not until then. The reason is that I like to wage war with superior military technology. If you are the first to obtain cavalry you will have a huge military advantage, which you can exploit by raising lots of money to field a big army.

 

[DS_Legionary]

I would turn science down to a minumum until I've reached the Middle Ages, then beeline straight for Chivalry at a good 60-80% rate with the extra money you got. once that is discovered turn it back down, and continue with building units or whatever you want.

 

[BigNHuge]

Yeah im going to go fuedilism and chivalry asap and get sun tsu and get veteran calvs and attack the weak boy in the south (Japan.) But something else i was thinking was that i could turn research off all the way until i get to middle ages then turn it back on, that wasy i can upgrade all my horseman i have from a fake war with russia early on (i got 5 but hey 5 horseman =- five cavs)

 

[JustBen]

I'm of the opinion that every gold spent on research when you have the Great Library is a wasted gold. Maybe going after Chivalry with your own research would be a good idea, but going after Monotheism, Feudalism, and Chivalry all together is definitely a waste. Once your victim has Feudalism, his defense isn't helped any by acquiring Knights, so you might as well be patient and let them learn Chivalry for you. You can save the extra money and use it to mass-upgrade Horsemen when you finally do learn Chivalry -- then they can build all the Knights they want and you'll still steamroll them.

 

[zerksees]

I would not put science over 10% until you get education, or all the AIs are so weak that science stops moving forward. Build the gold and use it for mass upgrades later on.

If you are worried about building Sun Tzu or Leonardo's - watch what techs the AI has on the trade screen. When it looks like some of them are one step away from feudalism, then start pre-building a palace that you can switch to the wonder once you get the tech.

If the palace is almost done and you still don't have the tech you can always buy the tech with all the cash you are building up and switch to building the wonder you want.