regent player help

[bigsexypolo]

hi everyone!
I'm having trouble surviving thru a regent game. I'm playing of the top civs, usually persia, egypt, japan or japan and keep getting placed on continent next to a militaristic civ. I'm expanding rapidly and doing balanced city growth but keep getting attacked and destroyed by there inferior units? What should I do guys?

thx

 

[Tassadar]

Built city wall and put veteran spearman into your fringe city, if you defend well for a few turn, they will sue for peace. If they cut road, just rebuilt it after the war. Use your walled city like a fortified castle.

 

[john heidle]

Fight an early war with your neighbors. Destroy them. This is almost always the best way to start a game. Very few people win peaceful game. It happens, but not often.

If you start the war, build a very large army with lots of swordsmen and a few other units (spearmen and horsemen). If your initial attack fails, go defensive for a while. The AI will usually keep on attacking one city which you defend with numbers while you build up more attackers. Then attack in numbers. The longer the war, the better you will be able to figure out a way to win it.

 

[Maple]

Make sure you expand fast and early.

 

[Sullla]

Originally posted by john heidle
Fight an early war with your neighbors. Destroy them. This is almost always the best way to start a game. Very few people win peaceful game. It happens, but not often.

Actually I almost always play peaceful games and have no trouble wining them. The belief that an early war is needed to win is a myth; if the player makes intelligent decisions on what to build, it is not difficult to win the game in peaceful fashion. I recently trashed the AI in a 5 City Challenge game on Monarch (standard size map). I never fought a war and had 50,000 gold in the bank when I won a UN victory. I plan to try something similar on Emperor next. I think if you are having trouble on Regent, it will help more to study how good players begin their games and try to emulate them. There are several examples of this going on in the succession games forum at the moment.

I personally don't like ancient wars much because they are too dependent on luck. Ever since I had three warriors fail to take out one defending warrior in a 3000BC war, I decided early gambits are best left to gamblers. Build yourself a solid base of citites, and you will be well prepared to defend yourself against aggression from others or go on the offensive yourself.

 

[gfeier]

Originally posted by john heidle
Fight an early war with your neighbors. Destroy them. This is almost always the best way to start a game. Very few people win peaceful game. It happens, but not often.

Not necessarily... Just won my first game an the Monarch level (Iroquois, huge map, spaceship victory). The only wars I fought were two minimum-length ones at the midgame level when I immediately destroyed cities built on the edges of my continent by seaborne settlers. For the last 1500 years or so, all the other civs were at war on every single turn. Despite their small edge at Monarch level, their Communist goverments were no match for my democracy (the French were a republic most of the way). I guess they didn't attack me for two reasons - I was easy to deal with and I had REALLY strong defenses. Anyone who came after me would have been slaughtered in short order. Maybe the AI isn't all that stupid after all. I did have the advantage of a starting position well away from anyone else so I was able to establish defensible borders early on.