Philippes style of waging war

[philippe]

Welcome everyone i gonna teach you young lads how to wage war!
1)Lets say you start as the germans(scientific+militaristic+best uu: the pantzer)you got warrior code and bronze working.
Thats the perfect combo.archer will help you in early wars and spearman,well they are the best unit in the world.
2)build your city immediatly.DO NOT WAIT TO SEARCH A BETTER SPOT!
3)maximise your science.Invest in the wheel.
4)with the worker you get build roads everywhere around your capital.
5)build in your city a spearman.
6)the wheel is done,invest now in horsebackriding.
7)build now a settler.
8)search for horses.
9)build your next town ON the horse resource.
10)build a archer
11)explore, search goody huts.
12)you found a new civ,let say the japaneze.
13)info about japanez(religiuos+militaristic,uu: samoerai,replaces knight)This means you got to crush them early in the game or you will get your A$$ kicked by samoerai.
14)build 3 archers
15)now with 4 archers go to a barbarian camp.
16)train your archers to veteran,or even elite!
17)you will get 25 gold(is very good early in game)
18)restore lost health of archers
19go straight to capital and search for settler escorts(settler escorted by other unit)
20)kill that settler escort with veteran archer.(for getting elite)
21)War is now declared
22)conquer capital.There will be usual 2 spearman or 3 so you have a good chance to win or maybe with the elite archer a LEADER!
23)capital conquered.
24)build in your cities now settlers +spearman
25)prepare for the counter-attack.
26)destroy another japaneze city.
27)japaneze have now 1 city left
28)ask for everything they have.
29)declare war again.(Do you care about reputation?HELL NO!your the Germans remember?)
30)destroy city ,goodby Japan
31)build cities on good spots.(DUH!)
32)explore and build temples and library.
33)you will have horseback riding.now research iron working
(swordsmen)
34)build city on iron ore
35)you now met the bloody english who hate you because you killed the japaneze.
36)as usual,they have a lot of cities so be prepared.
37)now rush to literature and then to monarchy
38)build great library
39)build hanging hardens in second city
40)do a revolution for monarchy.
41)your now a KING!
42)you will see that suddenly your production gets a big boost.

43)rush to chivalry
44)build knights.20 will do enough to kill elizabeth.
45)do a blitzkrieg to their capital
46)now attack their core cities
47)prepare for a counter-attack
48)destroy their puny warriors and their puny archers
49)england destroyed,elizabeth not happy
50)build even more cities and invest in culture
51)connect now all your cities with a pack of 20 workers
52)destroy now all barb camps.they will just annoy you.
53)rush to military tradition
54)upgrade knights to cavalry and build about 50 cavalry
55)attack the neighbour of the english,the americans
56)americans: expansionist+commerce+stupid UU
57)attack america.(you never liked them anyway)
58)with your cavalry it would be a fairly easy job until they have rifleman.
59)when they got rifleman,invest in cannons
60)bombard the hell outta them
61)invade their towns
62)america destroyed.lincoln get shot in theathre
63)swarm now all your cities over the continent!
64)make a great infrastructure net
65)now rush to motorized transport(PANTZERS!)
66)build factories but beware for pollution
67)rush science and switch to democracy.
68)build culture and science and MONEY!!!!
69)Now you pantzers.build transport and invade the other continent
70)indians religiuos+commercial:UU:war elephant(outdated now)
71)crush their elephant with German POWER!
72)build artillery and infantry to protect PANTZERS!
73)crush india
74)ghandi is now in a far better place.....
75)zulu seem eager to declare war on you.
76)show them german power!
77)zulus lose all cities but ask persia to help them in the war.
78)crush the zulu for declaring war on the reich of the Germans!
79)persia is buzy sneaky building computers.
80)YOU MUST CRUSH THEM BEFORE COMPUTERS OR YOUR PANTZERS ARE SCREWED!!!!!!!!!!!
81)destroy persia.
82)the last civ builds the UN.(the A.I is hopeless stupid)
83)the vote......
84)the civ who builded it where the french.(industriuos+commerce,i think):UU musketeer outdated but funny to see.
85)France votes for you!
86)of course you made them graciuos
87)you vote on yourself
88)you win!
89)you had the worst reputation ever and you win the game with diplo victory!!!!!!!!!!
90)thank you for reading this.



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[Zachriel]

Originally posted by philippe
Welcome everyone i gonna teach you young lads how to wage war!
1) . . .
90)thank you for reading this.

The simplified 90-step system.

 

[Shabbaman]

Hmmm, spearman, 'best unit in the world'?
One might add that reputation is overrated: even if you do nothing wrong, the AI still doesn't like you unless you invest more in them than they do in you. And why would you do that (when you plan on conquering them?)

Also liked action point #90

 

[Zouave]

I don't do anything wrong regarding reputation and I still get blamed for stuff I nevr did!!

 

[ainwood]

Originally posted by philippe
2)build your city immediatly.DO NOT WAIT TO SEARCH A BETTER SPOT!
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7)build now a settler.

What if you start on a mountain, in the middle of tundra? If you don't consider moving, your city may never get to size 3 to allow you to build another settler.

 

[philippe]

but on higher diffuculties if you dont build your first city on the spot you gonna get a big drawback.

 

[ainwood]

I think that you build based on the cirumstances. Generally, I agree though.

 

[Sullla]

While I get the feeling that this was a story about one game in particular and not a general strategy, I must say that quite frankly this strategy won't work on higher difficulties. By the time you build a spearman, a settler, and 4 archers, I can guarantee you that the AI civs will have more than 2 cities. And your whole strategy is assuming that you'll win every critical battle - what if you DON'T take out their captial on the first turns of attack? Regular archers vs. regular spears isn't really in your favor at all. Since you've put nothing into expansion, you're in bad shape for the rest of the game. If you really wanted to do an early war gambit, you should build a barracks first, and skip the settler since it doesn't help you in any way. You can't just assume that you're going to get free promotions either, even with a militaristic civ.

Then another point is Build the Great Library, Build the Hanging Gardens. OK, but if you've been building military in the early game, you're going to be pretty screwed in terms of city infrastructure, and tying your top two cities down on wonders for dozens of turns isn't going to make things better. And what if you don't get the wonders? How would you keep up in tech if that's the case? It's another gamble.

Even if you do manage to get these wonders, you will be lacking for city improvements pretty heavily in your core cities. Knights are expensive at 70 shields to build; by the time you construct 20 of them, the AI civs will probably have built muskets and eliminated your advantage. The English will counterattack with archers and warriors? Ummm... what level was this game on? If you attack with knights, the AI will be attacking you with knights as well. Maybe not intelligently, but they will have units as good as yours.

Sounds like a fun game, but this is not a viable strategy for a high-level game. And it has too many high-risk gambles that could cost you the game.

 

[philippe]

i played it on regent

 

[Sullla]

And my comments are addressed for an Emperor/Deity game. What you said will probably work for Regent, although I would contend that there are better strategies there too.

 

[philippe]

most players play regent i think.i play chieftan if im bored(weak and fun to see your oppenent behind with 15 techs haha!)
regent if i want fun
and monarch for a challenge
i never won in emperor or deity

 

[-proletarian-]

 

[Gastric ReFlux]

I'm waiting to see the second 90-Step Installment.

 

[Lostman]

I think anything you do in Chieftan or Regent level will help you win. You have such an advantage that it's hard not to win.

 

[Beam]

philippe, just being curious.

Why did you not take the opportunity and increase your postcount by 90 ya'ole spammer?

 

[philippe]

Because i don't care about postcount

 

[MirandaCore]

I generally agree with Phillipe's 90 step strategy except for the early steps. Forget about attacking early unless u are the Sioux or some other civ with awesome early UU. Its a lot cheaper to expand (especially on a huge continental map) and build up infrastructure. Generally I go straight for military tradition, skipping chivalry (its a lot easier to stop knights than calvary) and then go on a mad killing rampage. On monarch level, no civs have survived long enough to get tanks and rarely have any civ gotten infantry.

 

[Trinity]

Phillipe, you missed one thing. When you encounter the Japanese, the turn you meet them you trade techs, then kill them the next turn. I did this with the French against the Romans. Got a free tech. No more Rome.