It isn't an event with a choice. It simply gives axes the shock promo. Cover is not an option from the event.
Role Play Challenge: Gandhi the War-Monger
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It isn't an event with a choice. It simply gives axes the shock promo. Cover is not an option from the event.
Then take Cover with at the earliest opportunity...
Basically, never take Shock when Cover is an option.
madscientist
RPC Supergenius
Um, the event just said "Thow hast Shock axes, go and kill some melee units". I am paraphrasing a bit but you catch my drift.
Ummmm, no. In the open field axes are far superior to archers. Archers are also mainly found in cities where city raider promotions are superior since they apply to all defending units. The Ai typically promotes axemen to shock which means the axes in your own stack are vulnerable. And once you get swords then axes are for stack defense and you rarely get attacked by archers, and if you do even unpromoted axes will kill them. The onlt time I give axes cover is if they are wandering barb killers. Then it is combat1/shock THEN cover
PaulusIII
Unholy Warlord
Shadow, until +/- 1 AD
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madscientist
RPC Supergenius
Gandhi the war-Monger: Part II
Agressive Ais are just plain FUN! Stupid but fun!
We took on Sury, although he is still alive and has the Great wall! Apparently he built the dam thing in a city other than the capital!
Well enough of that
First the techpath: Masonry/Fishing/HBR. Impressive huh! Yeah we crashed the economy pretty badly although we recouped a bit at the end.
First thing, Sury is too close to us and being creative and all
We kept it, gold once the borders pop and a good cottaging city, not that we have cottaged all that much yet. The city fell fairly easily but Sury has axes and chariots. So we took peace.
Soon after
Gandhi is the ever popular guy!
OK we stopped trying to build/whip libraries and concentrated on defense and crippling Sury more.
The cheif threat comes from Hannibal in the west.
We whip/build an archer/axe in the capital which seams to be enough to beat off Hannibal.
We do take our force in the east at Sury.
Unfortunately, it's not enough to wrest the horses from him.
A view of Sury's past 2 cities
The problem here is that we simply do not have enough force to take either city.
We decide to get peace as much as we can. Hannibal came to the table after suiciding his stack on our capital. Stalin agreed, and Sury definitely agreed. That left a stubborn Zulu. While we are teching slowly, the world apparently knows alphabet, so
It took a while but we finally got a religion spread to us, and afairly popular one.
we have used the whip this game for mostly libraries to get an SE going which has helped. We are also starting to cottage and have jumbos and gold, so happiness and commerce are coming in. We are using the spiritual trait, jumping in and pout of slavery to save gold and avoid uprisings.
As we close in on HBR we pop a GS
No doubt about it, we bulb mathematics
A view of techs
OK, some tradability here.
THIS is a big trade, and I think I will do all I can to befriend the Khan as he is one of the few AIs who has not gone to war and has NOT requested joining a war.
And luckily we find iron within the capitals BFC
We continue to build an army (we have a settled GG in the capital) and after HBR we decide to save. Next tech is
Not sure here. Construction (cats and Jumbos) or Currency (economy).
The land
I am really not planning on building many cities right now but prefer to simply take what we need.
Cities
Beakers are a little low but will pop up once we rebuild some population and run scientists.
There are some more trade options, but I am reluctant to trade any military techs right now.
OK, two major items to do besides righting out economy
1) We need to finish off Sury, and I think swords and HAs can do it. After that we probably want to take out at least one more AI with cats/jumbos.
2) OK, who do we try and befriend? We do need some, Cathy looks promising, ditto Khan. Not trust worthy, but are any of these maniacs???
That's all for now!
Agressive Ais are just plain FUN! Stupid but fun!
We took on Sury, although he is still alive and has the Great wall! Apparently he built the dam thing in a city other than the capital!
Well enough of that
First the techpath: Masonry/Fishing/HBR. Impressive huh! Yeah we crashed the economy pretty badly although we recouped a bit at the end.
First thing, Sury is too close to us and being creative and all
We kept it, gold once the borders pop and a good cottaging city, not that we have cottaged all that much yet. The city fell fairly easily but Sury has axes and chariots. So we took peace.
Soon after
Gandhi is the ever popular guy!
OK we stopped trying to build/whip libraries and concentrated on defense and crippling Sury more.
The cheif threat comes from Hannibal in the west.
We whip/build an archer/axe in the capital which seams to be enough to beat off Hannibal.
We do take our force in the east at Sury.
Unfortunately, it's not enough to wrest the horses from him.
A view of Sury's past 2 cities
The problem here is that we simply do not have enough force to take either city.
We decide to get peace as much as we can. Hannibal came to the table after suiciding his stack on our capital. Stalin agreed, and Sury definitely agreed. That left a stubborn Zulu. While we are teching slowly, the world apparently knows alphabet, so
It took a while but we finally got a religion spread to us, and afairly popular one.
we have used the whip this game for mostly libraries to get an SE going which has helped. We are also starting to cottage and have jumbos and gold, so happiness and commerce are coming in. We are using the spiritual trait, jumping in and pout of slavery to save gold and avoid uprisings.
As we close in on HBR we pop a GS
No doubt about it, we bulb mathematics
A view of techs
OK, some tradability here.
THIS is a big trade, and I think I will do all I can to befriend the Khan as he is one of the few AIs who has not gone to war and has NOT requested joining a war.
And luckily we find iron within the capitals BFC
We continue to build an army (we have a settled GG in the capital) and after HBR we decide to save. Next tech is
Not sure here. Construction (cats and Jumbos) or Currency (economy).
The land
I am really not planning on building many cities right now but prefer to simply take what we need.
Cities
Beakers are a little low but will pop up once we rebuild some population and run scientists.
There are some more trade options, but I am reluctant to trade any military techs right now.
OK, two major items to do besides righting out economy
1) We need to finish off Sury, and I think swords and HAs can do it. After that we probably want to take out at least one more AI with cats/jumbos.
2) OK, who do we try and befriend? We do need some, Cathy looks promising, ditto Khan. Not trust worthy, but are any of these maniacs???
That's all for now!
IagoAlberto
Warlord
Nice work on taking Sury's capital while fending off Hannibal and Uncle Joe. As far as your next tech I would personally take currency, your economy is in the tank and will go further in it once you take sury's last two cities. It will also open up code of laws for further economic recovery. I would personally go: currency/construction/COL/MC/CS? which should allow you to war after sury with cats and jumbo's without worrying about striking units.
As for which AI to gun for, Hannibal might be a good one for shortening your borders, he seems to be up against the coast to your west, he will also be one of the long term threats in this game. Who can you befriend out of this lot of bloodthirsty, backstabbing, warmongering chumps? Its a good question, Genghis and Cathy would seem to be good choices, although Ragnar can be pretty reliable if you keep him engaged in wars with someone other than you. In the end I don't think I would rely on any AI on this map excpet for maybe Issy and Sally and only if you share a religion.
As for which AI to gun for, Hannibal might be a good one for shortening your borders, he seems to be up against the coast to your west, he will also be one of the long term threats in this game. Who can you befriend out of this lot of bloodthirsty, backstabbing, warmongering chumps? Its a good question, Genghis and Cathy would seem to be good choices, although Ragnar can be pretty reliable if you keep him engaged in wars with someone other than you. In the end I don't think I would rely on any AI on this map excpet for maybe Issy and Sally and only if you share a religion.
DMOC
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Load the savegame on marathon.
Enter worldbuilder.
Click "Save" while in worldbuilder and name it "Gandhi the Warmongerer" or something like that.
Exit to Main Menu.
Go to "Custon Scenario."
Click "Gandhi the Warmongerer" or whatever title you chose.
Pick leader.
Adjust settings accordingly (choose epic speed).
Start the game and have fun.
Enter worldbuilder.
Click "Save" while in worldbuilder and name it "Gandhi the Warmongerer" or something like that.
Exit to Main Menu.
Go to "Custon Scenario."
Click "Gandhi the Warmongerer" or whatever title you chose.
Pick leader.
Adjust settings accordingly (choose epic speed).
Start the game and have fun.
futurehermit
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imho you should have settled on the stone. Nice work thusfar though. I would keep up the warmongering (construction).
BalbanesBeoulve
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Why the hell did you bulb mathematics????
Complete waste of a scientist.
Complete waste of a scientist.
madscientist
RPC Supergenius
Desperate times, desperate times. I got some return in trades for it.
TheMeInTeam
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You also need to do a text edit of the worldbuilder save - you want to set # of turns and default speed to 0 so that you don't play epic and have to game go WAY past 2050, or vice versa have it end ultra early if slowing the game down.
If changing difficulties it becomes important to fix starting techs etc also, and clean the fog of war.
Edit: A math bulb is a viable part of a construction sling shot! Although I'm not sure of the relevance in this case.
madscientist
RPC Supergenius
Gandhi the War-Monger: Part III
We are surviving. Doing horribly, but we have not lost any cities and wipred out Sury! We are badly behind in tech, with little time to build anything but military! Still, hell of a game.
Let's start with the techpath: Currency/Construction/Fuedalism
We also got 1 GS which we used for am academy in the capital.
So first things first
A pretty decent trade for us
And then some bad news
Danged, and we were just geering up for another shot at Sury.
We did make a trade for backfilling techs and cash
I decided not to let old Monty stop my plan, not on this board so
What then hell.
And another trade
Hammarabi turned into a decent trade partner her.
We march onto the new Khmerian capital
Got the Great wall and scotland yard, nice haul.
And soon after
Ever the opportunist. he tried to capture the new city but we fought off his Prats. we never saw anymore Romans fater that.
Monty was pretty gnerous in this peace deal
I am guessing his land stinks.
Also sal declared war on us which was an issue as he had catapults. we managed to destroy most of them with HAs (week unit, Hah!). Soon he was generous in peace also
Soon after, following some rude refusals on my part for unreasonable tribute (700 of our 720 gold treasury) the Great Khan comes after us.
The good news is that Sury also declared war.
Leading to
Eliminates Sury and nabs us some gems.
Now, Sury should have LONGGGGGGG ago, not a well playted military game on my part. Still, we have yet to see a seroius threat at our cities. Oh sure the Khan send some cats towards our northern horse city, but he was mowed down and had some problems with Hannibal declaring on him.
Speaking of which, I have managed to get three decent friends which I will cater to: Catherine, Napolean, Hannibal. Why do I have a burning sensation in my back.
So we agree to these things
Phoney war as Isabella is nearly dead. Cathy also has Ragnar as a vassal, so one less moron to worry about.
After we tech Fuedalism we readjust civics
Made a trade with the only AI who wants Fuedalism, or will to trade something for it.
Not much, but we have some calender resources and we could use the commerce.
We also got several GGs (thankyou great wall) which we all settled in the capital. Delhi shall be just like Rome in the Julius game, a mega military capital.
The claimed Khmerian lands.
And techs
Yes, Cathy and Napoelan, my sugar momma and daddy! Cathy has given me meditation for free. very tricky peace here.
The cities
Seven of them!
So how do we proceed??? Now understand that all victory conditions are on the table, how to go about it??
we actually have ALOT of religions. I am seriously considering the following plan
1) Take out Khan with war elephants.
2) Spread religions.
3) Academies and perhaps try a late game cultural victory, again!
Probably impossible, but I am following the lone RPC rule: SURVIVAL!!! The skinney holy man has managed to go toe to toe with these agressive morons and I must dsay, has done pretty well!
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
We are surviving. Doing horribly, but we have not lost any cities and wipred out Sury! We are badly behind in tech, with little time to build anything but military! Still, hell of a game.
Let's start with the techpath: Currency/Construction/Fuedalism
We also got 1 GS which we used for am academy in the capital.
So first things first
A pretty decent trade for us
And then some bad news
Danged, and we were just geering up for another shot at Sury.
We did make a trade for backfilling techs and cash
I decided not to let old Monty stop my plan, not on this board so
What then hell.
And another trade
Hammarabi turned into a decent trade partner her.
We march onto the new Khmerian capital
Got the Great wall and scotland yard, nice haul.
And soon after
Ever the opportunist. he tried to capture the new city but we fought off his Prats. we never saw anymore Romans fater that.
Monty was pretty gnerous in this peace deal
I am guessing his land stinks.
Also sal declared war on us which was an issue as he had catapults. we managed to destroy most of them with HAs (week unit, Hah!). Soon he was generous in peace also
Soon after, following some rude refusals on my part for unreasonable tribute (700 of our 720 gold treasury) the Great Khan comes after us.
The good news is that Sury also declared war.
Leading to
Eliminates Sury and nabs us some gems.
Now, Sury should have LONGGGGGGG ago, not a well playted military game on my part. Still, we have yet to see a seroius threat at our cities. Oh sure the Khan send some cats towards our northern horse city, but he was mowed down and had some problems with Hannibal declaring on him.
Speaking of which, I have managed to get three decent friends which I will cater to: Catherine, Napolean, Hannibal. Why do I have a burning sensation in my back.
So we agree to these things
Phoney war as Isabella is nearly dead. Cathy also has Ragnar as a vassal, so one less moron to worry about.
After we tech Fuedalism we readjust civics
Made a trade with the only AI who wants Fuedalism, or will to trade something for it.
Not much, but we have some calender resources and we could use the commerce.
We also got several GGs (thankyou great wall) which we all settled in the capital. Delhi shall be just like Rome in the Julius game, a mega military capital.
The claimed Khmerian lands.
And techs
Yes, Cathy and Napoelan, my sugar momma and daddy! Cathy has given me meditation for free. very tricky peace here.
The cities
Seven of them!
So how do we proceed??? Now understand that all victory conditions are on the table, how to go about it??
we actually have ALOT of religions. I am seriously considering the following plan
1) Take out Khan with war elephants.
2) Spread religions.
3) Academies and perhaps try a late game cultural victory, again!
Probably impossible, but I am following the lone RPC rule: SURVIVAL!!! The skinney holy man has managed to go toe to toe with these agressive morons and I must dsay, has done pretty well!
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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