My First Warlord Game

Now that minimap looks much better . . . lots more purple. I assume Germany's next on the hit list?

I'm already at war with the Germans. And if i scrolled up a bit you would see my cav's and arty in their territory :D. Before I conquered the English and Americans (Almost) Greece and Japan had more territory then me. But now I have more territory then both of them :D. I think I have about 1693 points followed by Japan who has 1608 points. Somehow Japan's points are rising fast without them gaining territory. I'm sending 5 carriers 4 battleships a few destroyers a few subs and a few Ironclads to germany now. Along with my 50 arty 80 cavs and 40 infantry.

If I may ask, how is it that Seattle's building a tank and, right next door, New Salamanca's building a sword?

I know, i shouldn't be building swords now but I am because the town only has 1spt prductivity.

No, being at peace won't stop resistors. In fact, completely conquering america won't stop resistors, though it will stop any flips.

Here's a trick for later: If you have a civ that has these remote cities on 1 tile islands, make peace and ask for those in the peace treaty. Then declare and take over the civ again, waiting 20 turns if you want to preserve your rep, of course.

Excellent tip Automated Teller :D. I usually do this but I thought I had America conquered, only after I took their last town on my continent did I realise that they have a city on a small Island still. Because it would take a while to move my transports over to their Island I decided that I'll just make peace with them because I was sick of all the towns that always flipped. It takes too long to starve them down one by one.

@Aceman101 -- also, it's 1981 AD in your game. Looks like you may have some builds going that will never be completed. You might think about switching them.

Yes - I'll switch them when the war is over.

I'd completely forgotten about that, and he does have vanilla. I didn't realize you could continue building swords that late in the game. :eek:

Yes I have vanilla *sigh* :(. It certainly is weird building swords in the modern ages.
 
im just wondering, whats wrong with spears? the whole point of them is to block cities well. i would use my charging units to fight off the invading enemies, but spears or hoplites (which are very good iin ancient times) usually work well. plus they cost less
 
The best defence is a good offence. Don't let the AI get near your cities. To start with, it will pillage your improvements.

Build attackers. If the AI moves towards you, take it out before it becomes a threat.

Turtling up in your cities is always the wrong answer (or, at the very best, it is the last hope of a desperate man).

The purpose of spearmen is to defend your swords and archers as they move into enemy territory. Not to defend your cities.
 
Yes - What he said. I used to think the same, what's wrong with spear? Well it is perfectly OK to make a few spars to defend your border towns. But you don't need them for the towns that are deep in your territory. You can even bring one or two spears with a stack of troops if you are worried about it. But never put a spear in a stack of troops that have more than 1 movement points. This is pointless and will waste turns.

To everyone else: I will have my new pictures uploaded by tommorow :).
 
Build just enough defense to protect your cities, and lots of attackers to intercept an incoming enemy before they can attack. In war, a good policy is: do unto others before they do unto you.
 
Where you need defensive units in cities is later on, when there are rails and cavs. I was recently playing an emp level 20K game - late in the game, I decided it was time to take out france with tanks and mech inf. My invasion went great! Until france moved a force of cavs through korea on ROP and took 5 undefended cities.

Fortunately for me, they ran out of cavs before they got to the capitol ;)
 
I have conquered all but one of germany's cities. Excactly what happened with America :mad:. But I'm now sending carriers, sub's transports, destroyers and battleships to take the last German city completely on a different Island. As for America I had a smart plan. Because they only had 1 city on a small island and Germany was right next to them, I told America to ally against germany for peace. They accepted. And just as I had planned the next turn the Germans destroyed their 1 city. But this time i will destroy Germany's last city by myself. Apart from a few Persian city's the whole continent is now mine :king:. When Germany is destroyed Persia is next on the hit list. I sold space flight to persia for computers, fission, 950 gold, silks and world map :). The year is now 2008 and I have 5500 gold. Sorry no pictures.
 
Greece, Japan and Persia declared war on me :eek:. Just after I conquered Germany, Persia saw an undefended city in my empire and they took it. The next turn I captured all their cities on my continent and load up a few transports to destroy Persia. Then the military advisor said that Japan and Persia had a MPP and that triggered Japan to declare on me. The next turn Japan told Greece to declare on me, and they did. So now It's basically one against all. But I have to admit that small army Persia has is pretty advanced. I saw subs and carriers loaded with fighters and bombers. It was a massive war and i lost many troops. The next minute a Persian transport comes with a marine and takes my undefended city :mad:. While japan and Gr eece bombed my city like hell Persia was using their small but advanced army. The next turn Greece and Japan destroyed all my citys that were on their continent. I lost a LOT of troops in the war against Persia. But I'm still the strongest by far :D. I have certainly noticed the A.I will build a lot more military. It was boring in chieftain. The most advanced military unit I saw was an Ironclad and I never saw any bombers or anything like that. But now my war has lot's of action in it. I will post a picture next time.
 
Just to get a clear picture of what it looks like, here are some pics...

This is the Histograph...
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This is part of some of the land that I have conquered...
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This is the other part of the land that I have conquered...
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This is the minmap before...
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This is the minimap after...
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As always, suggestions and comments are appreciated.
 
Why are you building warriors and swordsmen when you can build tanks?!?

The cities that are building swords and warriors produce less than 2 shields per turn. So building a tank in one of those cities would be pointless because the game would expire before the production finishes.
 
Then build artillery or workers. Heck even wealth is better than obsolete units. You need a worker or two at that Manchester island.
 
Looking much better, Aceman101. Thetrooper's right, though. You don't have any use for swords now. They'll just clog up your unit support until they die on the battlefield.

Here's my suggestion, assuming you're going for a Conquest victory. (Conquest is your VC, right? If not, my plan may really stink.) Turn those cities into specialist farms. I'd make tax farms at this point. Hire all the tax collectors that you can support and switch the cities to building wealth. Drop research to 0% and lux as far as you safely can. You''ve got ~5200 gold in the bank and you're a Monarchy. You can cash rush some tanks or transports or whatever you need. With only 30 years before the game expires, you've got a lot of ground to cover.
 
Then build artillery or workers. Heck even wealth is better than obsolete units. You need a worker or two at that Manchester island.

I have about 60 artillery so I think that's enough. And I have more workers than I need. I will transport a ship with workers to the Island. I'll switch to wealth.

Looking much better, Aceman101. Thetrooper's right, though. You don't have any use for swords now. They'll just clog up your unit support until they die on the battlefield.

Yes but they still have their uses. I bombarded a fortified infantry down to 1 HP and used the warrior to attack it. The warrior won! But you are right. I'll switch the corrupt cites to wealth.

Here's my suggestion, assuming you're going for a Conquest victory. (Conquest is your VC, right? If not, my plan may really stink.) Turn those cities into specialist farms. I'd make tax farms at this point. Hire all the tax collectors that you can support and switch the cities to building wealth. Drop research to 0% and lux as far as you safely can. You''ve got ~5200 gold in the bank and you're a Monarchy. You can cash rush some tanks or transports or whatever you need. With only 30 years before the game expires, you've got a lot of ground to cover.

Yes - I am going for a conquest win, but honestly, I don't think I'll have the world conquered in 30 years. Japan's army is HUGE. But still not as big as mine. I still win if I have the most points, Right?
 
Aceman101 said:
I have about 60 artillery so I think that's enough. And I have more workers than I need. I will transport a ship with workers to the Island. I'll switch to wealth.

Good, you should 'milk' this game now as you're going for a higher score at 2050 AD. You still have some undeveloped land on your main island.

Aceman101 said:
I bombarded a fortified infantry down to 1 HP and used the warrior to attack it. The warrior won! But you are right. I'll switch the corrupt cites to wealth.

:D Expect to have a long run of bad RNG rolls in the future.

Aceman101 said:
I still win if I have the most points, Right?

Right.
 
Yes - I am going for a conquest win, but honestly, I don't think I'll have the world conquered in 30 years. Japan's army is HUGE. But still not as big as mine. I still win if I have the most points, Right?

Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about whether or not you actually win this game, Aceman101. You posted it, you got tons of feedback, and you improved over the course of the game. Win, lose, or draw, it's time for you to move up a level and implement the lessons that you've taken from this game.
 
Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about whether or not you actually win this game, Aceman101. You posted it, you got tons of feedback, and you improved over the course of the game.

Yes - I did improve a lot. I learned 10 times more than I did when I read the 250 page manual :D. Most people don't read the manual :p.

Win, lose, or draw, it's time for you to move up a level and implement the lessons that you've taken from this game.

Yes - next game i'm playin on regent. And these VC's (Victory conditions, yes I made that up myself :D) will be enabled:

Conquest, of course

Domination, Yes i'll give domination a try. Since it still involves war.

Culture, Yes I'll give culture a try. Not 20k but 100k win! But I don't know if I should, the A.I will build a lot more wonders in regent.

Good, you should 'milk' this game now as you're going for a higher score at 2050 AD. You still have some undeveloped land on your main island.

Yes I should, since I will not be able to conquer the world.



:D Expect to have a long run of bad RNG rolls in the future.

RNG :confused: what does that mean?




That's good, then I'll still win if I don't conquer the world.

Thank you for the replies :clap::clap::clap:.
 
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