brothatactics
Chieftain
I usually don't bother with doing this, but would like some input from those who have used this tactic before. Do you have to blockade all the water tiles in the cultural border? How is this done?
I usually don't bother with doing this, but would like some input from those who have used this tactic before. Do you have to blockade all the water tiles in the cultural border? How is this done?
So blockading all cities (+coastal forts) constitutes a full blockade? How does AI react to this (ie do they build new forts, do they try to dislodge, does it count towards war success)?
So blockading all cities (+coastal forts) constitutes a full blockade? How does AI react to this (ie do they build new forts, do they try to dislodge, does it count towards war success)?
The AI will indeed allow a stack of three privateers to blockade unchallenged until they develop frigates. I even played a game where I blockaded something like 15 caravels into a city - easily double what's needed to kill the three privateers.
When doing this kind of thing, I generally let the caravels/galleons out and killed them for the xp when the target starts researching chem. This way, some of the privateers end up with barrage and can be upgraded to scary destroyers (albeit very expensively). It also forces the AI to build rather than upgrade for frigates.
I bring them back to my cities (where they will patrol for incoming galleon invasions) when I start seeing enemy frigates. With the sentry promo, and the +1 move I almost always get for circumnavigation, it's rare to lose many priavateers to slower frigates.
If I do have a big tech lead, I do spam privateers, as they can allow for some pretty impressive results. I've managed to isolate whole continents to take without diplomatic penalty, on prince level. I do this most commonly when I have the glh, and beeline astronomy...chemistry is pretty easy to get with that kind of commerce. Then surround one backwards continent (1-2 civs who have probably been warring for the whole game) and sack the whole thing with Curassiers. By the time any other civ finds the continent, it looks like it was always mine (aside from the out of-sync city names). I haven't pulled this off at monarch, but it would be possible with an ideal glh start.