Mongol Scenario way different after June Patch

I do know who the Mongols were, but this is Firaxis and I don't think a genocide game is what they had in mind, it is not what I have in mind... while they are at it, why not create a realistic WW2 scenario for the Germans, yea that would go over well!

1. Please don't use Nazi Germany / The Holocaust as an example for anything else ever, this one time it was okay because we were actually talking about genocide.

2. The Holocaust was a different kind of genocide to the genocides committed by the Mongols - Hitler was targeting specific ethnic minority groups that were widespread across his country/empire. The Mongols went into a city that they didn't like and literally murdered every man, woman and child - but contrary to popular belief this was actually rare - the main interest of Mongols was extracting tribute from conquered peoples and you can't rextract tribute from the dead. The massacres were only done on occassion to provide an extra incentive for the rest of the cities in the region to sbmit to the Mongols without fighting.

That isn't to say that Genghis Khan wasn't a horrible bloodthirsty killer like the rest of his civilization, and he definately did some barbaric and abhorrent things - just wanted to make tat distinction.
 
Really? You're completely convinced of this? You don't see any other viable strategy?

I don't doubt you, I just would like to think someone could figure out some method. Anyone want to contradict this statement?

That Mongol Scenario Diety achievement is looming over me, but I don't know if I have it in me to battle it out! :lol:

I'm pretty convinced, though I could always be wrong. Deity is all about initial momentum. Happiness is all about pacing. The two are contradictory.

Giving the AI time to make use of its 50% production handicap is a really bad idea and time is exactly what you need to establish happiness.
 
I'm pretty convinced, though I could always be wrong. Deity is all about initial momentum. Happiness is all about pacing. The two are contradictory.

Giving the AI time to make use of its 50% production handicap is a really bad idea and time is exactly what you need to establish happiness.

You make good points. I just want to believe there is another way.

But then again, I'd like to believe in unicorns too. :crazyeye:

My challenge remains open though. Can anyone beat the Mongol scenario on Diety without racking up major unhappiness?

But to be clear: kudos to those of you who have done it post patch! :goodjob:
 
Conquered Military states give units based on what resources the state has nearby.

Conquered Cultural states give 1 free social policy each.

Conquered Maritime states give cash.

Conquered major civs gives a free tech each.

I noticed that taking out city states is giving individual bonusses. Took out Xi-hua and got 2 horses and Georgia gave me a social policy. What do the rest give??
 
i do know who the mongols were, but this is firaxis and i don't think a genocide game is what they had in mind, it is not what i have in mind... While they are at it, why not create a realistic ww2 scenario for the germans, yea that would go over well!:confused:

the germans! With all new ub: Concentration camp! Decreases happiness by 500! Yay!
 
I just replayed after the patch on deity. Won on turn 92 vs 88 pre-patch.

Indeed happiness is an issue, especially in the beginning where the Jin & Zu cities fall quickly. A positive happiness is difficult to manage, as you 1st have to go through the "unhappy" period before annexing can be managed with buying a courthouse.

I dipped to minus 30 in the early period, had 2 barb risings, but after that I was able to course around 0.

As a result, I only managed to get 9 keshiks till turn 30, where pre-patch I had 10 by turn 25. But the double firing comes more quickly ;-)

Sequence of conquering was:

turn 1: war Jin
~turn 10: War Xia and Korea
turn 19: end Jin & Xia - kept Liaoyang & Capital
turn 20: War Zu
turn 33: After taking Chengdu & Xian & northern city, Zu offers me peace for the other cities. I keep Guangzhou & Chengdu & Capital
My 3 keshiks that took Chengdu move via southern chokepoint route towards India. My 1st captured worker was send there during the 1st turns to build roads and bridges here to quickly move through this chokepoint. During war with Zu ally Dai Viet doesn't attack this worker typically!turn 34: sign RA with Oda
turn 35: war with India
turn 44: redeclare war with Zu and finish her turn 48
~turn 45: take Korea
my 3 finish Zu keshiks and 3 Korean Keshiks move to Persia.
turn 52: end India I only keep capital where I buy the spice tile.
turn 54: war Persia: after taking most eastern city and capital I split 3 Keshiks off to Russia
turn 62: war Russia
turn 65: RA with Oda ready, war with Oda, and start bombarding 2 tile island city from Korean peninsula.
turn 68: Ally Abbasids and start war Arabs
turn 71: end Persia and Rifling
turn 78: end Russia - keep Capital
turn 81: war Byzantium -
turn 85: end Oda - kept all cities
turn 91: end Byzantium - keep both
turn 92: end Arabs - only kept Mecca

I guess I could have kept 2-3 cities more from a happiness point of view. I annexed 7 cities, kept rest as puppets.

I hardly bought happiness buildings, only courthouses.

As SP's I finished Honor 1st then 2 in Piety for happiness. Byzantium build the Notre Dame, so only my last turn I was enjoying this happpiness as well ;-)

Conclusion:
post patch strategy was the same as pre-patch stratgey, only happiness now gets managed via annexing/courthouses vs Circus/Collosseum pre-patch.

Oh, and I typically buy scouts as garrisons for all cities! (as I did pre-patch)



Sequence of
 
I apologise in advance for the thread necro, but I'd just like to share some observations after having (finally!) beat the scenario on Deity recently.

Disclaimer: I'm not very good at CiV, so there was a lot of saving and reloading on my part, but the general idea should work.

Anyway, to begin: I finished on Turn 79 and followed Waywocket's strategy of ignoring happiness - except at the very start - and never razing. I decided to work on the following principles:

Cash is King: Rush-buying units and buildings is probably the best way to save time in building up your army. I used most of my actual production on defensive units. In view of this, my goal was to earn as much cash as possible. Therefore, I went for the right side of Commerce. Also, I aimed for Economics since I'd be able to get at least one GE in the course of the game (for Big Ben), and the +1 gold to TPs synergises with the huge puppet empire.

Upgrade Complete: Given the discount to upgrading from Professional Army, it usually helps to build up a decent-sized force of relatively cheap, primitive units (e.g. Triremes, Archers) and delay the relevant upgrade tech until you're ready to deploy them. It gets even better when you rush-buy them.

It's Supposed To Keep Them Out: Rebels spawn in the following patterns:
  • Rebels will only spawn to your corresponding tech level. If you can't build Riflemen, they won't spawn Riflemen.
  • They can spawn as strategic units (e.g. Swordsmen / Horsemen) but never ranged units.
  • They come in groups of 2-6. (Possibly 7?)
Since you get the Great Wall once you take Beijing, sufficient ranged units should make short work of any melee rebels, with a small force of Pikemen to deal with the horsemen / knights that may spawn. So I garrisoned the cities with Archers and upgraded them to Crossbowmen once I had enough.

You Require More Vespene Gas: Take the cities with Strategic Resources first. (This usually applies when fighting any war.) A -50% Strategic Resource Penalty makes them hurt more than your -33% for Unhappiness. You generally want to cripple their Longswordsmen, which are usually the most annoying to deal with on the attack due to their high base Combat Strength. (This is especially useful when taking on Japan's Samurai.) The caveat is that I tried not to pillage if I could afford it, since I didn't want to waste movement points in mid-combat or extra turns getting Workers to hook them back up.

The Enemy Of My Enemy... Is Toast: Another good general principle is that you should try to bribe your neighbours to fight each other so that their depleted armies will be easier to deal with. It helps at the start if China fights Jin (this is usually luck-based), but you usually have to bribe Persia to fight India. Arabia tends to fight Persia and Byzantium on its own initiative. The earliest time to do this is when you have sufficient extra Luxuries and / or Iron to avoid wasting your gold (in my case, after taking the Chinese capital). Try not to sell your horses unless you're sure you're going to get them back immediately (read: just before declaring war).

In view of this, I decided that my strategy would be to get the following techs: Metal Casting (for the specialist) -> Education (for the university) -> Economics (for the gold and Big Ben) -> Navigation (to take Japan) -> Biology (to reach the Industrial Era and get Autocracy if possible). This way, the rebels that spawned would be Swordsmen, Pikemen, Horsemen or Knights, all of which could be handled by sufficiently-trained Crossbowmen and Pikemen. The Archers would garrison the puppet cities in the meantime, giving bonus culture.

A summary of how my playthrough went:

  • Started off by picking Professional Army and upgrading all Horsemen to Keshiks except one, which I sent to meet Western Xia. Farmed the riverside plain and built a pasture on the sheep. Built archers. First beeline: Engineering.
  • Sent the Horseman down the Silk Road to meet Almaty, Persia, and (after detouring to the hills) India. In the meantime, declared war on Uighur and took it by turn 4. (Precise positioning required.) On puppeting Uighur, took Military Tradition and finished the tree. The extra gold from killing units helps to keep your economy afloat for the first 20-30 turns.
  • Sent the rest of the army back down to Western Xia just as Zhangzong and Wu Zetian decide to declare war on each other. Scammed Zhangsong of his money, bought Sugar from Gandhi and a Circus. (Reason for this is that I needed to keep my happiness above zero so that I could get 6 pop in Karakorum). Declared war on Zhangsong and took Western Xia (which had conveniently allied with Jin).
  • After taking Western Xia for the two free horsemen (upgraded to Keshiks as necessary), I went to assault Beijing from the hills in the northwest. While I was doing that, China took Xian.
  • Took Beijing, then Liaoyang and Kaifeng in that order. This was by about turn 16 to 18 - I had completed Masonry and Construction by that point, so I used the free tech to bulb Metal Casting, and the money to buy a Workshop and a Water Mill. Ran a specialist. By this point, my aim was to keep Happiness more than -9 for the next step.
  • Scammed Wu Zetian out of her money, then went straight for Hangzhou, since that would neutralise her swordsmen. Production was diverted towards building horsemen for the upgrade. Took Guangzhou and Xiangyang, whereupon she sued for peace and gave me all her other cities except Chengdu. This should be around round 23-25. At this point, I received a Social Policy and took the Commerce opener.
  • I used my new-found Silk and Iron and bribed Darius into declaring war on Gandhi in the hope of thinning their forces down somewhat. In the meantime, I sold all my luxuries to them for whatever they could spare, and got the workers to connect the cities up to the capital for trade routes. Spent the money on Keshiks.
  • During the 10-turn peace treaty, sent the first group of Keshiks down (three to take Dai Viet, three to take Dali), while my second strike force took Lhasa for Trade Unions (particularly useful since maintenance for the Chinese roads is no joke). During this time, rebels started spawning, so I sent the Dai Viet group of Keshiks back to deal with them. Fortunately I'd completed Engineering in the meantime, so moving around within my territory to fight rebels was easier. Subsequently spent a turn on Sailing (so that I could get Triremes), then beelined Education. By this time, I reached a positive balance in cash flow.
  • Peace treaty expired around Turn 35; took Chengdu in 2 turns. Conveniently timed so that Education completed on the same turn and bulbed Banking. Annexed Guangzhou and Hangzhou, bought a University in Guangzhou (all that jungle!) and started building barracks. Workers went to TP the jungle tiles. Next beeline: Economics (I went with Physics before Machinery to get a couple more Archers out.) From this point on, all subsequent GGs spawned were sacrificed for Golden Ages. The next Social Policy went to Mercantilism. From this point, you can do what you want with subsequent social policies; the Liberty Opener is always a good one if you want a couple more policies before the scenario ends, or you could go for the Tradition Opener and Oligarchy for added security. For me, I took the Liberty opener and then finished off Commerce, which on hindsight was kind of useless.
  • The original Keshik strikeforce went along the southern jungle and attacked India. In the meantime, the second army went up and took Almaty for the additional Horsemen, which were upgraded. Then I declared war on Persia at around Round 40. Around this point, I had Machinery, so I upgraded my home army of Archers to Crossbowmen and started churning out Pikemen from Karakorum instead. Additional gold went towards buying Armories in my production towns, while Hangzhou and Guangzhou occupied themselves with producing Triremes.
  • The Persians are dangerous, as their Golden Age movement bonus combined with double-healing Pikemen means that they can catch your Keshiks off-guard very easily. Fortunately, the Great Wall meant that I could use puppeted Almaty as the staging ground to attack Persia as long as the enemy had to pass through my territory. Having said that, though, I spent about 10 turns sniping a neverending human wave of Pikemen streaming through Samarkand, since those hills posed a mobility problem.
  • At around turn 50+, Army 1 flattened India at about the right time to bulb Economics with the free tech. I sent it through the southern pass towards the other Persian cities. The GE spawned at about the same time, so I used it to rush Big Ben (still took another 8 turns or so). In the meantime, Army 2 finally took Samarkand after killing nearly every man who could hold a pointy stick in Persia. Subsequently went for Urgench (since Nishapur is hard to take safely from the northeast, I left it for Army 1) then moved northwest to Russia. Next beeline: Navigation. In the meantime, I was rush-buying Triremes at a discount, and annexed cities as required to purchase Crossbowmen for Homeland Security.
  • Army 2 took Vladimir, then Kiev. It's probably better to take Kiev before Novogorod so that you can deprive them of Knights, which will seriously cause trouble for your Keshiks.
  • Crushed Persia at around Round 60, bulbed Navigation and met Arabia. Subsequently cheated them out of their money and used it to upgrade my standing navy of about 16+ Triremes to Frigates, all upgraded to Bombardment II. Sent them along with a lone Pikeman and bombarded Dazaifu into submission. (If Korea had allied with Japan, I'd have taken Korea first.)
  • Took Abbasids and Georgia in one turn each before declaring war on Arabia, since I had to cripple their Camel Archers and I needed the roads. Aleppo was next due to its strategic resources. In the meantime, Russia fell and I sent Army 2 to Hungary. Hungary is tricky to move through due to the hilly forests, which eat up a whopping 3 movement, but I took it eventually and cut Byzantium off from their own source of Horse and Iron. In the meantime, the navy went to Kyoto first (Iron) - I managed to bring 8 ships to bear on the city per turn, so the rest went to bombard the ranged units and anything they could reach.
  • The remaining Arabian cities fell easily except for Cairo, which is a major chokepoint. So I sent Army 1 across the Red Sea, Moses-style, and took it. Then I annexed the Crusader States (which Arabia had taken over previously) to get a suitable site to send out some ships. As for Japan, Kamakura's fall was inevitable once I got enough frigates.
  • Finally, Army 1 attacked Constantinople, using frigates as spotters, while Army 2 occupied itself with sniping Thessalonica's units from behind (there's not much room to move around from the back, and the hills and rivers limit your range drastically).

tl;dr: Screw happiness, steamroll city-states, scam everyone, buy / upgrade plenty of Keshiks and Frigates, cheap-shot rebels with the Great Wall and crossbows / pikemen, and take over the world.
 
Nice, thanks! I'll try those tactics out someday.
 
Helppppppppppp, please :)
This is my last achievement but it drives me crazy.
So, 15 turns left to end (on Deity) and 2 opponents: Cathy (but I already have about 10 elite keshiks at her border so it shouldn't be a problem) and of course master (Y)oda.
I have read the 3-4 threads about Mongol Scenario on this forum but I didn't imagine it will be so bad. I already (easily) conquered his smaller island/city and now I'm with 7-8 frigates, 5 riflemen and 2-3 keshiks arround his main island. He doesn't seem to have any ships but common...is there any tile empty of endless pikemen and samurai? :)
So please help with 2 questions:
1) how many turns do I need to conquer his main island (I kept lots of saves so I can go back some turns if 15 is not enough). I postponed attacking him waiting for Navigation but now I think it was a mistake, I should have attacked earlier.
2) is there any special technique to deal with him, besides killing all his troops? I was thinking to ignore his troops and just bombard the cities to 0 HP and then use a rifleman to take the city from water directly, since he has no ships. However, since my unhappiness is well below -100 (or -150) the damage frigates are making on him is quite low :(
I am allied with Coreea and still have some 2.000 or 3.000 gold if that helps.
Thank you for your help and have a nice day, Nicolae.

Later: I did it, 8 frigates shooting each turn into the cities make a difference.
Thanks everyone who posted into Mongol scenario threads, really good advices.
 
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