[Pangaea] Willem van Orange - Strong Land vs Pyramids

[Doshin]

@ben-jammin

I waited until Hannibal's stack returned from trying to attack SB.

 

[ben-jammin]

Okay, it's 1525. I'm actually completely stuck as to what to do. I tried playing various ways out of this and no matter what I do, I'm stuck

The only solution I see is to kill Izzy now. Her culture is REALLY bugging me and she's running away. However, I'm having A LOT of trouble with that She gets rifling in a couple of turns as well which is a bummer

I mean the game SHOULD be ''won'' with all that land I have, but I'm struggling to see what to do with it.

Edit: Oh and lesson learnt: Cavalry sucks against Rifles

What Shaka has suggested is the best trick there is when you have cannons but will be facing rifles. Let her capture a city, smash her stack there with CRII cannons, and repeat. You'll be getting full bonuses against no cultural defense and no fortification bonus, you should be able to clear massive numbers of units out losing only a handful of cannons (you can destroy 10x the hammers you lose).

 

[Revent]

What Shaka has suggested is the best trick there is when you have cannons but will be facing rifles. Let her capture a city, smash her stack there with CRII cannons, and repeat. You'll be getting full bonuses against no cultural defense and no fortification bonus, you should be able to clear massive numbers of units out losing only a handful of cannons (you can destroy 10x the hammers you lose).

Yeah, it's actually a really good trick I didn't exactly have a large stack (took me 3 turns to kill her SoD after cannons attacked her). But now, it's becoming more of a chore to be honest I feel the game is in the bag at the moment

She's got 8 cities left. One, I'm letting her keep so that I can steal some techs back to get back in the game, make my way to Artillery and probably kill Survy/Hannibal I'm using 20% EP slider, have caputred SoL so spy in every city that can have it.

I might even do the cheesy thing, vassal Izzy and then AP win Convert to Judaism two turns before diplomatic vote, use spies to get Izzy to convert, switch back turn before voting comes and win

 

[Revent]

AP victory first after vassaling Izzy and getting her to convert to Judaism.

Following that, I decided I wanted to do domination anyway so settled 3 more cities and then beelined Sushi, the turn I finally got Sushi, my cities grew enough for domination anyway

 

[Manco Capac]

Congratz Revent. Winning deity is always a feat, no matter how easy or how hard the map is.

 

[Revent]

Thanks! I'm back to your deity game now and I see that my playing was a bit suboptimal. I might actually restart.

 

[reddishrecue]

Haha, Izzy just back-stabbed me so freaking hard.

Spoiler :

Everyone was at war with Darius following an AP resolution, so I had no idea an attack was coming. Two turns after I DOW'd Sitting Bull, Izzy's stack showed up at my borders:

I lost my HE city.

This game looks so similar to a game I used to play a long time ago on an older computer but I lost the file. I had got to a domination victory.