HardCoder
Arrrr
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- Oct 21, 2006
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I'm playing a Monarch Pangea. With an okay start as Genghis I took out Alex first with keshiks. By the time I was finished, the odd longbow and elephant was showing up. Next on the list was Asoka, who harrassed my SoD with groups of 2-3 elephants, usually taking out an axe and keshik or two. But it was a pretty big stack, over a dozen, over half of it double or triple promoted cats. I rolled over the skirmishing units, bombarded cities, took them the next turn with minimal losses. Asoka's cities didn't have anything like reasonable defenses. If the elephants had stayed inside the cities I'd probably have had to wait for reinforcements once or twice. As it was he was a vassal after 30-40 turns. Mansa Musa dogpiled on me mid-war, but I took out a couple of his stacks with minimal losses, and after a while I got a good deal on a peace treaty with him.
Next up, 3 medium-size barb cities that were all longbows. Cats and keshiks and a couple of macemen.
Elizabeth was weak and in my neighborhood, and had 3 holy cities, so she was next on the list. All the AIs are still ahead of me in tech at this point so I expected something more than a couple elephants and pikes. But that's all I got. Her cities were defended by a mix of units, 4-5 in the first two, and by the time I got to London (I only needed 3 cities) the skirmishing units had bailed and there was only one unit left inside the capital. It wasn't even a top of the line model. So she's working for me now too.
I think part of why this is so freakin' easy, relative to my usual Monarch experience, is that I'm playing pangea. I almost always play the standard Continents, and it's just not nearly as easy to get a hold on enough neighbors to take charge of the game. Sometimes Hannibal or Napoleon have run wild on the other continent, or conversely you have all the bad neighbors on your continent and there are a couple of friendly mellow builders working on easy cultural victories on the other one.
But anyway, the AIs are producing defense that is too weak, and, I think, still misusing units that should be garrisoned to at least attempt to stave off invasion.
Right now all I need to do is take out Mansa Musa and the rest, what little there is, is straightforward.
Next up, 3 medium-size barb cities that were all longbows. Cats and keshiks and a couple of macemen.
Elizabeth was weak and in my neighborhood, and had 3 holy cities, so she was next on the list. All the AIs are still ahead of me in tech at this point so I expected something more than a couple elephants and pikes. But that's all I got. Her cities were defended by a mix of units, 4-5 in the first two, and by the time I got to London (I only needed 3 cities) the skirmishing units had bailed and there was only one unit left inside the capital. It wasn't even a top of the line model. So she's working for me now too.
I think part of why this is so freakin' easy, relative to my usual Monarch experience, is that I'm playing pangea. I almost always play the standard Continents, and it's just not nearly as easy to get a hold on enough neighbors to take charge of the game. Sometimes Hannibal or Napoleon have run wild on the other continent, or conversely you have all the bad neighbors on your continent and there are a couple of friendly mellow builders working on easy cultural victories on the other one.
But anyway, the AIs are producing defense that is too weak, and, I think, still misusing units that should be garrisoned to at least attempt to stave off invasion.
Right now all I need to do is take out Mansa Musa and the rest, what little there is, is straightforward.
