Monarch Student^ V - Justinian

[roberteriksson]

@Grashopa

Spoiler :

I guess my reasoning for the placement of Nicara was to limit the number of shared tiles as well as making it coastal. I have some sick need of having coastal cities, placing a city one square from the coast just make it itch all over my body somehow. But I see the logic in placing it 1E, thanks.

As for horses, yeah knowing myself this will probably turn out into a war, most likely sooner than later. As you can see I'm on my way to hook up the cows and wheat right now, and I guess you're right that I could have done that before settling the gold on the west coast. I just didn't wanna risk Asoka somehow settling close there, but I guess he's not much of a rexer anyway.

 

[Risu]

I'm not sure if this is my first post but here it goes.

Emperor/Epic

1335AD

Spoiler :

Moved my capital 1 SE and built 6 cities before doing anything. My 1st goal was to beeline to horseback riding and start building some horse archers. Then capture couple of cities and after that rebuild my economy.

2nd goal was to beeline to guilds, upgrade all horses to cataphracts and conquer the rest of the world.

The game went as I planned. First I built about 15 horse archers and captured 2 cities from Wang and 1 from Asoka. Well Asoka bribed Wang to war against me but his stacks were easily killed with my horse archers.

It was something around 800AD when I got Guilds. I think it took about 15 turns to upgrade all horses to cataphracts but it was worth it. I couldn't believe how strong cataphracs really are. Wang had 100% city defenses and his protective longbows defending but I think I lost about 2 cataphracts/city. Do it fast and your losses will be small.

Frederick was busy building wonders so he didn't have any military. He had also Chichen pizza but it didn't matter. All his cities had castle and so it was 125% bonus. He was easily conquered. Didn't use any siege or spies just cataphracts.

Statistics 1335AD

techs

Victory 1560AD

Spoiler :

It was time to do some cleaning.

wow, thats alot of wonders!

Points

My 3rd best ever.

 

[roberteriksson]

Close to domination/diplomatic victory on Monarch:

Spoiler :

Got my economy sorted out since last time after heavy rexing. Had a LOT of production and used it to churn out cats and those very nice UU:s. Started by taking out Gandhi and capturing the holy building of Buddhism before vassalizing him; Wang Kon than offered to vassalize even before the dust had cleared from the capture of Delhi to gain my protection.

I gracefully accepted so I could move my troops to his border and launch an attack on Frederick. Captured all of his good cities, vassalized him, so now I got the whole continent eating out of my palm and the guys on the other side aren't even halfway to my score.

I guess I could go for a diplomatic victory somehow (have never done that) or just ship my guys over to the other continent; my cannons pretty much tear through all resistance now. I'm behind techwize, but I got the important ones (i.e. to be able to mount cannons and Cataphracts).

Think I'll call it a win here as my MacBook starts lagging pretty heavily towards the endgame, feels like it's pretty much a done deal. Here's some pictures:

I got around 46% of the total population and 38% percent of the land.

The production in this game was just massive, never had anything like it and after rexing and gaining control of half the island, the AI could never match me production wize.

 

[Nares]

@grashopa

Spoiler :

I actually like the placement. To me, it's dictated by grabbing the Gold and Elephants without impeding the potential double banana site to the north.

My cities as of 1AD followed the exact same placement, with a fifth 1W of the Cows at Cows/Spices.

Though I agree that settling that plains hill city after the Cows/Spices city would have been better.