Riflemen rush under 100 turns(patch 1.0.1.217)

[Tabarnak]

Yeah the famous rush is back. Just wanted to say hello before making a more deeply strategy about this in next days.

Let's call this the 4 city Tradition+Piety strategy (instead of Liberty+Piety). The core strat looks like the old one but build paths are not the same.

I roughly made this with many blind decisions on my 2nd try. I will take some more time to play the game to be more accurate later.

 

[Smote]

managed turn 143 mechs myself had 6 mechs at turn 150. used 2 great sci + oxford at the end. earlier had used 1 great sci for public schools (buy public school) and 1 great sci for machinery (faster iron works).

i had a lot of wheat, and an early granary was a huge boost. did 1 city until ironworks was done, since capital had such good land.

 

[swordspider]

Rifles can be had by turn 80 still if you play it right, specifically using the free GS and getting GL. Best I have done is 85, but I know I can beat that based on those games.

 

[Tabarnak]

Nice. I expected that shorter expansions can bring some good results as well. Vertical vs Horizontal strats will be the center of discussions.

 

[jojorah]

TBH rifles are realy a game breaker Imo. But they where historicly to I suppose but still.,..

 

[Smote]

heh, they arent that bad. longswords and crossbows still stop them, if you can get a number edge.

 

[chastiser]

So can you please elaborate on this strategy a little more?

Do you go for Landed Elite right away and 4 cities, then what? When do you start building great library? What is the research path? Clendar, Writing > Rifling?