Single Malt
Prince
Judging by what your saying you dont like to war all that much. My advice is to prepare for war at all times, and if a window of opportunity opens, take it. Land is power.
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Judging by what your saying you dont like to war all that much. My advice is to prepare for war at all times, and if a window of opportunity opens, take it. Land is power.
founding multiple religions is very useful under some circumstances.after all, it gives you +happy faces, +beakers, +culture and +gold. if you have no chance that opponents having found new religions will split Great AI's Buddha/Hindu Bloc (and for late religions it's generally true) then IMHO it's more beneficial to found it yourself. and that's not at all that difficult (at emperor at least) - CoL, Phi, Theo are all "bulbable" and quite a priority. you will need these techs anyway, so why not bulb and grab a religion as bonus? (again aside from possibility of breaking the Buddha bloc) )DR is useless though.
Single Malt
Prince
I disagree, divine right is one of the best - if you have ai contact. Its highly prioritised, and hence trade dynamite. Even with both wonders built.
Played this game, and ended up finishing it first of the 3 Monarch learning games posted so far.
Did some decent early expansion, knew mr. Caesar would be causing issues so I built up military and whacked him good (took 2 wars, both of which HE started
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After that I was buddy-buddy with Isabella and SB for a good while thanks to a shared religion, but eventually a certain religious fanatic decided to go into FR, putting her at Cautious with me...well, soon enough the demands came, and I prepped for war again. Izzy got whacked good in a pretty long war, then vassalized to SB after I gave her peace (but not vassalized, I planned to finish the job after the 10 turn break).
Well, that put a wrench in things, and as SB was pissing me off by stealing techs and such other nasty espionage things, I just went with a big military buildup (by this time I'm cranking artillery, tanks, and infantry/marines, plus some air support). Declared on him, and was in the process of steamrolling both SB and Izzy when Willem built the UN, I got elected leader, and on a whim picked Diplo victory.
Well, thanks to my very friendly relations with Justinian, his votes plus my 50% population-worth of votes = diplo win before the domination win came to fruition. This felt more like a prince level game than a monarch one, to me. I wasn't aiming for a specific victory, but ended up heading towards military just due to the AI actions.
Did some decent early expansion, knew mr. Caesar would be causing issues so I built up military and whacked him good (took 2 wars, both of which HE started
)After that I was buddy-buddy with Isabella and SB for a good while thanks to a shared religion, but eventually a certain religious fanatic decided to go into FR, putting her at Cautious with me...well, soon enough the demands came, and I prepped for war again. Izzy got whacked good in a pretty long war, then vassalized to SB after I gave her peace (but not vassalized, I planned to finish the job after the 10 turn break).
Well, that put a wrench in things, and as SB was pissing me off by stealing techs and such other nasty espionage things, I just went with a big military buildup (by this time I'm cranking artillery, tanks, and infantry/marines, plus some air support). Declared on him, and was in the process of steamrolling both SB and Izzy when Willem built the UN, I got elected leader, and on a whim picked Diplo victory.
Well, thanks to my very friendly relations with Justinian, his votes plus my 50% population-worth of votes = diplo win before the domination win came to fruition. This felt more like a prince level game than a monarch one, to me. I wasn't aiming for a specific victory, but ended up heading towards military just due to the AI actions.
Ramesses-Rules
King
Congratulations. You are a great player. I love playing Ramesses. You have inspired me to polish up my warring skills. I am having a hard time winning at Monarch without making wars. At the lower difficulty levels, I can win without making wars, and I HATE wars, because I get "war weary" myself after awhile and start making silly (and sometimes fatal) strategic errors.
Is there a good instructional article here on battle strategy and methods?
Is there a good instructional article here on battle strategy and methods?
I pretty mutch ignore the first 3 religions. I prefer to capture one through combat. Lot easier esp on Emp level. Oracle and Conf is a more easier first religion. Philosophy if you bulb it or use GS right.
Nice diplomatic victory above.
)Single Malt
Prince
Browse the War Academy, and read/participate in the various succession games that run on these forums. Thats the only reason I am playing monarch level. Learn to war without a decisive tech lead, instead push every small advantage. I have not won a game/war on monarch where I was decisively ahead in tech.
fugazi
King
I gave this game a try and was way too slow with taking out Julius. At 1500BC he already was sporting a few praetorians along my border, and not much later declared war on me. I managed to take my city that he took back and razed one of his cities and killed more of his troops before declaring peace.
I tried to work on my spy game and managed to steal tons of techs from Sitting Bull who so happened to be a crazy techer. I stole optics, drama, music, fuedalism, guilds, banking, gunpowder, chemistry and military science so far and compass and astronomy are going to follow. Thanks to all that stealing I got a nice techlead and once infantry are online my continent will suffer the consequences for letting this god-king live.
I'll try posting some screenies later once I finished it
I tried to work on my spy game and managed to steal tons of techs from Sitting Bull who so happened to be a crazy techer. I stole optics, drama, music, fuedalism, guilds, banking, gunpowder, chemistry and military science so far and compass and astronomy are going to follow. Thanks to all that stealing I got a nice techlead and once infantry are online my continent will suffer the consequences for letting this god-king live.
I'll try posting some screenies later once I finished it
Ramesses-Rules
King
Gumbolt, you would be proud of me. The Japanese were crowding me at the beginning, so as soon as I made my first War Chariot, I went on the attack. He had 4 cities but no functioning metal mines, so I had clear military advantage (War Chariots and Axes versus Archers. I took out three of his cities, but his main city cranked out Archers as fast as I could kill them. By 500 AD, he had 10 archers in the city even though I wiped out all his food and mines immediately. I did research all the way up to Catapults, and would have eventually got him, but by 500 AD, I was 400 points behind the leaders and quit in frustration. What did I do wrong, or is this just what to expect at Monarch?
