Technologies help for those who like war

[Sjaramei]

Well my axerush usually gives me another civs land, my next attack with catapults gives me 1-2 more AI's land (if all goes well). If i somehow managed to not get iron in any of my cities then... well you get the point (extremely unlikely)

And i don't use knights/crossbows a lot so i don't care that much about iron. (catapults beats everything )

And as i said, i trade iron working later from a friendly AI. I most likely wont build more than 3 cities in my games (AI expands like crazy) so where the iron is is pretty much irrelevant for me. (i don't have enough time to plan for a decent iron city)

But this is still a game where multiple strategies work so keep doing it if you feel it's worth it. For me i prefer getting CoL up soon so i can hit AI's hard as fast as possible and keep cities. The economy is my problem in the start, not the military.

 

[Betafor]

Just a couple notes on how the military UU's come into play here

Sword have especially more synergy if you play korea. A stack of hwatchas and swords has no early weakness (hwatchas replace catapults and have the same +50% bonus to melee as axe)

Praetorians - Just being rome gives you a legitimate reason to place iron working way over bronze or construction. 8 strength! they only are really countered by a heavily promoted axe or macemen (you heard me).

Cossacks and redcoats are not as overpowered as they used to be, but are still formidible foes. As a middle game warmonger as russia or england, neglecting these is not the smartest thing to do - definitly worth a beeline to Military tradition for cossacks and Rifling for redcoats

 

[madscientist]

I guess I typically play marathon games on huge boards si I often have to settle more than 3 cities.

 

[Sjaramei]

I guess I typically play marathon games on huge boards si I often have to settle more than 3 cities.

Lucky bastard

My comp can't handle huge maps so it's Standard size for me usually.

 

[1stcivdiv]

Awesome. I really think I suffer from tech choosing inexperience. When the game begins I look at what resources are readily available and then research the corresponding techs then I go to BW. From there I head for CoL. After this I don't find that I have a consistent strategy because I seem to do look at the tech tree and think that I need this and that without a true purpose. I think that I want to get to Gun Powder all the way through to Combustion and when that is through I go all to Industrialism. Then I go for rocketry. By this in on Noble I seem to be in the middle of the pack.

Any suggestions from anyone?

Thank you all very much by the way.

 

[r_rolo1]

Awesome. I really think I suffer from tech choosing inexperience. When the game begins I look at what resources are readily available and then research the corresponding techs then I go to BW. From there I head for CoL. After this I don't find that I have a consistent strategy because I seem to do look at the tech tree and think that I need this and that without a true purpose. I think that I want to get to Gun Powder all the way through to Combustion and when that is through I go all to Industrialism. Then I go for rocketry. By this in on Noble I seem to be in the middle of the pack.

Any suggestions from anyone?

You should really think on construction. Catapults are the hearth of the CivIV warfare ( cheap, colateral damage, retreat,....)
About gunpowder.... You should think Chemistry : Grens are much more powerful than muskets and are 1 tech away. Other options are MilTrad ( cavs ftw, atleast until BTS ) Rifling ( riflemen or his british encarnation) or steel ( cannons are a awesome unit)

 

[1stcivdiv]

Thanks rolo. I just hit a wall in my first noble game, so I just started a new game. This will give me the opportunity to clean up my strategy.