Shink
Chieftain
After being frustrated in my first three games of Regent by the AI Tech Trading, I changed my strategy entirely. Still playing on Regent, with eight civs on a random 2-continent standard size map, I took Japan and decided to screw knowledge.
I spent the entire beginning of the game building temples and barracks and settlers, with spearmen thrown in between settlers after the first two structures were built. I put my science and luxury rate down to 0% and built no libraries. On my continent I discovered there were only two civilizations - Babylon to the north and China (damn war-mongers) to the west. I bought all their techs and focused on making an army and expanding.
After minor border skirmishes, things settled down on my little continent. Then contact was made with the other continent that had Germany (on their own island), France, Greece, England, Iroquois, and Egypt. My continent was suddenly rushed into the middle ages, and I continued on with my plan - still all taxes and nothing else. I was able to defeat Babylon using this tactic, and go to the point where the only thing left to build in my cities were Libraries. And that's when the game turned - my Samurai won a battle, I hit a Golden Age, and I suddenly and rapidly had a tech-lead (one or two techs) at the beginning of the industrial age. Which I held until an incredibly long war with China allowed the others to catch up (and pass).
The Milatiristic trait was key - all of the leaders it generated from my war-mongering allowed me to build up all of the key wonders despite being slightly behind in the tech-race. The religious trait was nice in that it gave me low-cost temples/cathedrals, but I was Japan only for the Samurai.
The point being is this - is it the case that THE best trait in the game now is Militaristic? I'm positive this strategy would work equally as well on the higher difficulties - it's just winning the war based on sheer numbers.
A funny thing in my game - despite being military science equals with China and being the smaller nation, I was able to wipe them out with 159 samurai and 29 tanks (I lost my supply of oil and couldn't build tanks). It's amazing that if you throw enough samurai at a tank, it eventually dies, and with 159 invaders, it's difficult to stop them from reaching your capital. By the time the war was over, I was down to eight Samurai. However, I'm now such a large powerhouse (despite the weakest technologically) that three of the four remaining civilizations have declared war on me. I guess the really frown on the way I razed every chinese city that didn't have a Great Wonder in it.
Try this strategy - you might like it!
I spent the entire beginning of the game building temples and barracks and settlers, with spearmen thrown in between settlers after the first two structures were built. I put my science and luxury rate down to 0% and built no libraries. On my continent I discovered there were only two civilizations - Babylon to the north and China (damn war-mongers) to the west. I bought all their techs and focused on making an army and expanding.
After minor border skirmishes, things settled down on my little continent. Then contact was made with the other continent that had Germany (on their own island), France, Greece, England, Iroquois, and Egypt. My continent was suddenly rushed into the middle ages, and I continued on with my plan - still all taxes and nothing else. I was able to defeat Babylon using this tactic, and go to the point where the only thing left to build in my cities were Libraries. And that's when the game turned - my Samurai won a battle, I hit a Golden Age, and I suddenly and rapidly had a tech-lead (one or two techs) at the beginning of the industrial age. Which I held until an incredibly long war with China allowed the others to catch up (and pass).
The Milatiristic trait was key - all of the leaders it generated from my war-mongering allowed me to build up all of the key wonders despite being slightly behind in the tech-race. The religious trait was nice in that it gave me low-cost temples/cathedrals, but I was Japan only for the Samurai.
The point being is this - is it the case that THE best trait in the game now is Militaristic? I'm positive this strategy would work equally as well on the higher difficulties - it's just winning the war based on sheer numbers.
A funny thing in my game - despite being military science equals with China and being the smaller nation, I was able to wipe them out with 159 samurai and 29 tanks (I lost my supply of oil and couldn't build tanks). It's amazing that if you throw enough samurai at a tank, it eventually dies, and with 159 invaders, it's difficult to stop them from reaching your capital. By the time the war was over, I was down to eight Samurai. However, I'm now such a large powerhouse (despite the weakest technologically) that three of the four remaining civilizations have declared war on me. I guess the really frown on the way I razed every chinese city that didn't have a Great Wonder in it.
Try this strategy - you might like it!
