Tasslehoff
Kender
Assume you gain enough strength to withstand onslaughts, will you try to win by conquest, or some other VC?
Monster Map reload - Mayan AW on demigod
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ThERat
Deity
Domintation is out on monster maps as you can't get enough land ever...UN is out...culture is out for sure as I lag in culture a lot already.
Leaves conquest and space...space sounds wrong to me...so conquest it is...maybe I should try and AWE monster map and go for culture. I remember those 20k AWE games being absolute nail biters...
ThERat
Deity
More and more enemy units are streaming in. I have a hard time to clear what is necessary. The east is surprisingly the easiest to handle due to the many artillery I have there.
The desperate western edge.
Despite all this, I have to continue and take enemy cities and expand, else I will crumble soon.
Due to these cities razed, I expand and get this message (now having 53 cities and 13 armies.
The pictures don't really give the proper proportion of the AI onslaught. America would come out of the fog with Cavs and attack anywhere at the front. We had been lucky to repell most of them. The Celts would attack and move into my land. Only shfiting of armies helps a little. Koreans and Babs stream in and pillage my land.
The desperate western edge.
Despite all this, I have to continue and take enemy cities and expand, else I will crumble soon.
Due to these cities razed, I expand and get this message (now having 53 cities and 13 armies.
The pictures don't really give the proper proportion of the AI onslaught. America would come out of the fog with Cavs and attack anywhere at the front. We had been lucky to repell most of them. The Celts would attack and move into my land. Only shfiting of armies helps a little. Koreans and Babs stream in and pillage my land.
ThERat
Deity
Then the next turn, the inevitable happens. I lose a town in the west and the Dutch can stream in without any resistance.
At the same time the enemy drops around 15 units at the shores and I won't have the means to defend. A huge Byzantine stack is just inches away from our borders.
Carthage knights enter the frail and in the east more gigantic Aztec stacks move in and pillage.
In the picture you can see Replacement town surviving on a single redlined Cav after the Americans came out of the fog to attack with 5 cavs...
At the bottom of the picture you can see a Carthage merc dropped where 10 more units await (and I got maybe 3 attackers there)
I decide to throw in the towel and give up
I did not underestimate the AI, but I underestimated the power of PP. This tech comes very early on DG. One cannot handle the AI agression with so many enemies at the same time. Soon I would get more landings from overseas which I am not able to clear.
I will try again with a different Civ, PP not enabling selling of contacts and the UN victory disabled as well...
At the same time the enemy drops around 15 units at the shores and I won't have the means to defend. A huge Byzantine stack is just inches away from our borders.
Carthage knights enter the frail and in the east more gigantic Aztec stacks move in and pillage.
In the picture you can see Replacement town surviving on a single redlined Cav after the Americans came out of the fog to attack with 5 cavs...
At the bottom of the picture you can see a Carthage merc dropped where 10 more units await (and I got maybe 3 attackers there)
I decide to throw in the towel and give up
I did not underestimate the AI, but I underestimated the power of PP. This tech comes very early on DG. One cannot handle the AI agression with so many enemies at the same time. Soon I would get more landings from overseas which I am not able to clear.
I will try again with a different Civ, PP not enabling selling of contacts and the UN victory disabled as well...
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It was a valiant effort. You did pretty well to get 53 cities - more than 10% of the world's total - on Demigod Always War. You made it look so easy on Emperor - of course it couldn't have been easy, but it made it look like Demigod might be possible. Ah, well, better luck next time.
That it was. Despite not winning,
Holding out this long on AWDG is nothing to sneeze at. Well done and I'll be watching for your next attempt.
Tasslehoff
Kender
The above two statements match my sentiments exactly. No need to add more.
ThERat
Deity
thanks for the encouragment...I will not let this matter rest and I already started a new game last night to get over my frustration with this game...
I will start to post a new thread if the new game is looking more successful...As I mentioned, no PP contact trading and no UN.
Just a little teaser: Playing as Sumer, no iron again...met 2 Civs and am hoping to get the GL...
I will start to post a new thread if the new game is looking more successful...As I mentioned, no PP contact trading and no UN.
Just a little teaser: Playing as Sumer, no iron again...met 2 Civs and am hoping to get the GL...
gmaharriet
Ancient Crone
That PP situation was just ridiculous! I'm looking forward to your next game. 
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