Dr. Livingston: Who was that Aztec?
Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the newest gameshow this side of the borders of Insanity "Name that Dead Aztec!" Yes my friends, can you name who that Montezuma truely was? A case of turlewax awaits the winner!
We started by building a settler and researching
Mining/Bronze Working/writing/ most of Horsebackriding.
I thought of pottery, but the hell with it, we have enough silver to mine!
The next city we settled claimed the horses with potentially a silver mine upon border popping
After seeing that we have absolutely no copper nearby, we decided to research writing and start spamming out a massive chariot army.
My reason for writing is I figure I should have something to get beakers from as I expect the economy to crash sometime soon.
And here you can see the capital
Right now very flexible between worker/settler/expansion by working 5 food/1 hammer deer and grassland forrests for military/buildings. Worked well.
And while it took a while to get the horses hooked up we built another settler, establishing
A NATIVE AMERICAN CITY! Yes folks, Aztec names have been used up!
I decided against keeping our forrests, I chopped alot and used the whip to get our invasion force.
As we plan to sweep down on yellow/green Monty
However, we quickly find out that old Yellow/Green Monty has access to at least copper
Axes are not a concern to us with chariot but spears can be our downfall. Fortunately Monty is an idiot and built only 1 spear.
We quickly overwhelm the first Aztec city
Getting us a nice boost in the treasury. At this point we have writing and proceed to open borders with every Monty in the game. Except of course Monty who we are at war with, speaking of which we approach his second city, the direction that the axe came from
Sure enough, there is feather brain's copper city!
Bejing and copepr are now ours. 2 cities down using only the very mobile chariots.
I asked around the Aztec family reunion to see if any Monty's are willing to declare war on Monty and there were no takers, except this one
So we got ourselves one war-monger! Of course we have nothing to offer Monty to attack Monty with so we leave Monty alone and continue the war against Monty.
Now we notice this interesting screenshot
Is that Monty who built the Great wall? well I know Monty built the Great wall, but I certainly did not expect Monty to be building it, no wait I do, OH dammit, this is what I mean.
Liek Is aid we have the Great wall! Excellent to keep annoying barbarians out of our forrests and the acumulate alot of great generals.
Soon we locate the last Aztec city.
well, not the last Aztec city but the last city for yellow/green Monty. Monty is dead, long live Monty, and Monty, and Monty, etc.......
OK contestants, name who that dead Monty was???
And at 6 turns away from HBR we saved, as we got a Great General and want to think over what to do with him
A good start as we eliminated one Monty with only chariots. The next Blue Monty to our south is the Buddhist founder and
THAT is a lone city occupied by a lone axe. And we just happen to have a well propmmoted stack of chariots laying around.
Our cities
Time to whip out libraries fast and get a few scientists out. with any luck I can pop a Great Scientists before the Great Spy from teh great wall pops. I learned from the Sury RPC that trying to spy on Monty's that we do know who is who is "Difficult".
Demographics show the good and the bad
we are tops in production and militayr and almost dead last in GNP.
And finally, another view of the Aztec clan.
OK, I think we hit southern Monty fast before the economy crashes and we should research pottery for cottaging. I think we should then target aphabet for trading with Monty Inc and then Currency.
Any questions?
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