futurehermit
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Iron is of course important. But so is diplomacy, as has been mentioned!!!
If you have copper and no iron, as I see it you have a couple of options.
1) Conquer an early opponent with axes/spears (add catapults if necessary) and hopefully that will give you iron
2) Build/conquer a mid-sized empire, use diplomacy, and tech to gunpowder units (you said no horses, so that means grenadiers!!!). Muskets/grens/cannons/rifles can handle pretty much any threat and I would suggest teching them in that order.
But, definitely, you cannot neglect diplomacy as someone else mentioned, you should not be getting DoW'd on by saladin and hc (could it have been a holy war??? that's the only thing that makes sense to me here). It's not like we're talking about Shaka (aggressor) and Bismark (dogpiler).
If you have copper and no iron, as I see it you have a couple of options.
1) Conquer an early opponent with axes/spears (add catapults if necessary) and hopefully that will give you iron
2) Build/conquer a mid-sized empire, use diplomacy, and tech to gunpowder units (you said no horses, so that means grenadiers!!!). Muskets/grens/cannons/rifles can handle pretty much any threat and I would suggest teching them in that order.
But, definitely, you cannot neglect diplomacy as someone else mentioned, you should not be getting DoW'd on by saladin and hc (could it have been a holy war??? that's the only thing that makes sense to me here). It's not like we're talking about Shaka (aggressor) and Bismark (dogpiler).
