Please critique my emperor domination attempt

[cabert]

Ok, here's my end-game strategy:

1) Have a period of peace. Get wallstreet, oxford, and other infrastructure in place.

ERROR!
you had the troops, you were not backwards. Why wait?

2) Tech: Rifling-artillery-electricity-fission-rocketry

Steel was more than you needed at this point.
I would have build a few (2/3) galleons, a few more (4/5/6) frigates, and gone for the rest of cathy, then for ragnar while he was at war with memehd (or bribed memehd for a war a few (5/6) turns before my small fleet was in range. If Ragnar's navy was better than the 5/6 frigates you had, you could have built some more then upgraded to destroyers.
Combustion is the way to go. I go straight to railroads for MGs. Who needs artillery when the enemy doesn't have MGs? canons are good enough.

3) Try and generate at least 1 GM for upgrading siege to cannons or better artillery if possible.

right! way to go!
After liberalism, I find GM > GS.
3000 gold > 1800 beakers!

4) While manhattan project is building, go to war against issy with sole objective of securing her sources of uranium (I think she has around 3, I have two). Depending on how many sources of uranium exist on other continent, I may consider sending a force over there as well, not sure. Would prefer to keep them busy with each other.

nukes come too late.
canons come right when you need them or better said, as soon as you have canons, you can just build those + a few defensive units and go for the rest of the world.
I have a smile on my face when I think about MM having assembly line, and me only steel... a few turns later I had a pretty good vassal

5) Once manhattan project is built, use mass nukes to finish Issy off.

$ rushing nukes can be good, but it's soooo late.

I've never used nukes before and I want to try them out. I might be able to win faster if I attack her outright earlier, but this will be more fun

or you die

 

[futurehermit]

^^^^lol!

Yes, my mistake this game was not just upgrading mass catas (I had like around 30 of them) to cannons. Instead I was only able to upgrade 10 of them to artillery and I deleted the rest figuring I was ok....d'oh! Instead I should've upgraded all of them and attacked.

Instead of going overseas though I should've just attacked Issy outright. That would've gotten me the victory in the fastest amount of time imo. She got powerful, but later. With that many cannons and her not having cavalry I would've crippled her pretty nicely. I was worried about not having rifles or the option to trade for it. I should've just self-researched it. That would've been all I needed for the win. A huge stack of cannons + the ability to draft rifles. gg. thks though! you're right nukes come too late

 

[Snaaty]

something to remember:

take out builders early, warmongers later

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On the good side, it was quite close and therefore not a bad game I think.

Btw. I never used a single nuke in any game.

When I go for a modern war, I beeline for modern armors. You need nothing else (except maybe 4-8 artillery). Forget about bombers, fighters etc (in my opinion).

I normally don´t upgrade units since 4-8 catas will also do when combined with modern armors.

I Keep my research at 100% when I get a GM and speed research for modern armors.

Build 60 modern armors and go berserk. Nobody will stop you and you should be able to take out any remaining enemies within less then 30 turns...


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On a side note:

When you go domination, try out this:

Set research like usuall, but go directyl alph -lit -drama and build your Globe Theatre really early. It should be finished when you have researched Civil Service and traded for the other tech for building mace men.

Draft maces... ...lots of maces... ...really lots of maces... ...some more... ... when you are lucky, you are even able to end the game via domination with maces and catas only

 

[futurehermit]

rofl! i will have to try that! thks for the tip. next game if i get to the modern era it will be modern armors all the way ftw!

maybe i`ll try and do the globe theatre and mass maces ftw though