Hi, since other people have made threads for their games, I thought I should go ahead and do one for myself too.
I'm playing as the Americans, huge, wet/warm, pangea against 8 other civs-
Egypt
Carthage
Aztec
Germany
Rome
Greece
France
Iroquios
I decided to go with the ICS (is that the name?) sprawl and just made a huge mess of cities and nonstop workers/settlers/warriors/chariots. Its gone well so far.
I started off in a decent location. There was a river but as I found out later, there was no other fresh water supply for miles. I got lucky by popping a settler in my third turn. It was a good start. I got all the ancient era techs from huts (other than horseback riding). I kept building workers and settlers with a few warriors and chariots in between. My chariot production was slow at first and it heavily delayed any plans for ancient war. I decided to keep the AI busy and started a war with Rome and got Greece, Germany and Iroquios to fight them. Shortly after I declared war on France and had the Germans, Aztec, Greeks, Iroqious fight them. I didn't see any action but I had purposely chosen the two civs furtherest from me.
Meanwhile I sent a few warriors (some from huts, others produced) to Egypt and Carthage and took one city from each civ. I then asked for peace and both were eager. Egypt gave up one city but Carthage (seeing my overwhelming force of workers) gave up 4 cities
. That was another small boost but more importantly placed both civs just slightly behind in production and expansion (as compared to the other civs). I kept growing but then I noticed the tricky Motezuma moving his jaguar warriors near my territory. I hastily whipped up some spearmen and held against the massive onslaught for 6 warriors 
. I made peace with the Aztecs but got nothing out of it. Motezuma was going to pay! I built up a large chariot army(~40 units) and upgraded them to horsemen and overran Azteca. The Aztecs (who had been the 2nd most powerful civ after me) were out of the game. However I noticed my old enemy, Cleopatra moving a few archers and spearmen near my mulititude of undefended cities. I told her to get out but she persisted and finally declared war. The delay had given me time to get some spearmen and move horsemen over towards Egypt. The offensive troops were destroyed and now I was at war with Egypt. I slowly moved my troops from the former Aztec territory and towards Egypt. The fighting was slow at first because Egypt manged to hold off my horsemen. After getting some medieval infantry to break the siege around Egypt's perimeter cities, I discovered chivalry. I lacked Leonardo's Workshop so the upgrading from horsemen to knights was expensive but worth it. The knights overran Egypt and only faced a few pikemen. The knight army was growing and I turned my eye towards Carthage. A massive growing force of knights was moving south while others went eastwards to guard the German border. As I neared Carthage, the Germans attacked. I reppeled their small force and slaughtered their spearmen and horsemen. Germany was removed quickly and efficiently.
I was near preparation to attack Carthage when Hannibal declared war on me! It wasn't a big deal but I had to abandon a city after 3 brave and valiant pikemen and spearmen fell (destroying 6-7 chartagian troops). The Numidian mercenaries were tough but I slowly destroyed their cities. I razed almost all the cities and sent in a settler flood to claim the land.
During this whole process I tried but barely missed Sun Tzu's academy but got Leonardo's and J.S. Bach's.
Things look good but the game is going slowly. In about 2-3 turns I plan to attack Greece, sending one set of troops to take their only saltpeter supply. Meanwhile I'm building up on my western front towards France and Rome. I expect to be able to fight them with cavalry, because I'm not sure I'll have the numbers to take them on right now, while fighting Greece.
Its 930 AD and I'm still in the Middle Ages. I've noticed a trend in all my games, no matter what level. The tech process always seems to go slow, even on Emperor level games. In one of my latest emperor games I don't think I got into the Industrial Age till about 1000 AD. Ohwell
I'm playing as the Americans, huge, wet/warm, pangea against 8 other civs-
Egypt
Carthage
Aztec
Germany
Rome
Greece
France
Iroquios
I decided to go with the ICS (is that the name?) sprawl and just made a huge mess of cities and nonstop workers/settlers/warriors/chariots. Its gone well so far.
I started off in a decent location. There was a river but as I found out later, there was no other fresh water supply for miles. I got lucky by popping a settler in my third turn. It was a good start. I got all the ancient era techs from huts (other than horseback riding). I kept building workers and settlers with a few warriors and chariots in between. My chariot production was slow at first and it heavily delayed any plans for ancient war. I decided to keep the AI busy and started a war with Rome and got Greece, Germany and Iroquios to fight them. Shortly after I declared war on France and had the Germans, Aztec, Greeks, Iroqious fight them. I didn't see any action but I had purposely chosen the two civs furtherest from me.
Meanwhile I sent a few warriors (some from huts, others produced) to Egypt and Carthage and took one city from each civ. I then asked for peace and both were eager. Egypt gave up one city but Carthage (seeing my overwhelming force of workers) gave up 4 cities
. That was another small boost but more importantly placed both civs just slightly behind in production and expansion (as compared to the other civs). I kept growing but then I noticed the tricky Motezuma moving his jaguar warriors near my territory. I hastily whipped up some spearmen and held against the massive onslaught for 6 warriors . I made peace with the Aztecs but got nothing out of it. Motezuma was going to pay! I built up a large chariot army(~40 units) and upgraded them to horsemen and overran Azteca. The Aztecs (who had been the 2nd most powerful civ after me) were out of the game. However I noticed my old enemy, Cleopatra moving a few archers and spearmen near my mulititude of undefended cities. I told her to get out but she persisted and finally declared war. The delay had given me time to get some spearmen and move horsemen over towards Egypt. The offensive troops were destroyed and now I was at war with Egypt. I slowly moved my troops from the former Aztec territory and towards Egypt. The fighting was slow at first because Egypt manged to hold off my horsemen. After getting some medieval infantry to break the siege around Egypt's perimeter cities, I discovered chivalry. I lacked Leonardo's Workshop so the upgrading from horsemen to knights was expensive but worth it. The knights overran Egypt and only faced a few pikemen. The knight army was growing and I turned my eye towards Carthage. A massive growing force of knights was moving south while others went eastwards to guard the German border. As I neared Carthage, the Germans attacked. I reppeled their small force and slaughtered their spearmen and horsemen. Germany was removed quickly and efficiently. I was near preparation to attack Carthage when Hannibal declared war on me! It wasn't a big deal but I had to abandon a city after 3 brave and valiant pikemen and spearmen fell (destroying 6-7 chartagian troops). The Numidian mercenaries were tough but I slowly destroyed their cities. I razed almost all the cities and sent in a settler flood to claim the land.
During this whole process I tried but barely missed Sun Tzu's academy but got Leonardo's and J.S. Bach's.
Things look good but the game is going slowly. In about 2-3 turns I plan to attack Greece, sending one set of troops to take their only saltpeter supply. Meanwhile I'm building up on my western front towards France and Rome. I expect to be able to fight them with cavalry, because I'm not sure I'll have the numbers to take them on right now, while fighting Greece.
Its 930 AD and I'm still in the Middle Ages. I've noticed a trend in all my games, no matter what level. The tech process always seems to go slow, even on Emperor level games. In one of my latest emperor games I don't think I got into the Industrial Age till about 1000 AD. Ohwell
