...proves its worth.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Great Wall. Sometimes I build it and it doesn't even do anything, like the time I started construction and was mostly done with it by the time I realized that I was stuck on a large island with Cyrus, and between the two of us we were fogbusting the entire freaking island already. But other times.. well I'll let the pictures do the talking.
I reloaded an autosave to show you how it all started, so don't mind the timestamp difference. Needless to say, I disbanded the warrior that stumbled across the warrior-axeman-archer barbarian convention rather than let them kill my warrior and get xp to use against me. The build time on the Wall was not 8 turns from the time of that second shot, but only because of the chopping.. 1 turn to walk over, 3 turns to finish chopping, and if they took even one turn longer I might have lost my capital which only had a combat II chariot and a combat II warrior in it. Some of the barbarians stopped to pillage, one did not, but my chariot fended him off.
A barb or two at a time is not a big deal; I was pleased to discover horses under my capital when I researched animal husbandry, and warriors in my city with one chariot doing perimeter sweep worked well. I would have built a couple of more chariots, but I was counting on the wall to finish early since I started on it right away after founding York.
But 8 barbs at a time?? Raging barbs was NOT on. I am experimenting with inland sea, which does seem to generate a lot of barbs relative to other maps, but 8 barbs (axeman, archers, and warriors) in a big wave?? I know there were a couple of barb cities nearby, but one of them was fairly new, and I've never been assaulted by so many barbs all at the same time before, no matter how many barb cities were nearby.
Anyway I was thinking about doing a GW + raging barbs strat to channel barbs into my neighbors' back yards. Has anyone done so, and with what results? And has anyone else run into an 8-barb convention that descended on their capital all at the same time?
P.S. that last screenshot was to explain why I worker-snatched Roosevelt. I just couldn't resist when I saw that nobody liked him, so I stole his worker, pillaged with the warrior that stole the worker, and escorted the worker halfway to London with that warrior before another warrior of mine escorted it the rest of the way down. My reasoning was that Roosevelt would be weakened and maybe Ragnar would expand north into Roosevelt's territory instead of expanding to me. I also expanded towards Ragnar to deter him from expanding any farther east towards me. Does anyone else steal/DoW on AIs that are NOT adjacent to them, and how does that work out? I'm experimenting a lot as I am still rather new to the game, but a long-distance DoW is a new one for me.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Great Wall. Sometimes I build it and it doesn't even do anything, like the time I started construction and was mostly done with it by the time I realized that I was stuck on a large island with Cyrus, and between the two of us we were fogbusting the entire freaking island already. But other times.. well I'll let the pictures do the talking.
I reloaded an autosave to show you how it all started, so don't mind the timestamp difference. Needless to say, I disbanded the warrior that stumbled across the warrior-axeman-archer barbarian convention rather than let them kill my warrior and get xp to use against me. The build time on the Wall was not 8 turns from the time of that second shot, but only because of the chopping.. 1 turn to walk over, 3 turns to finish chopping, and if they took even one turn longer I might have lost my capital which only had a combat II chariot and a combat II warrior in it. Some of the barbarians stopped to pillage, one did not, but my chariot fended him off.
A barb or two at a time is not a big deal; I was pleased to discover horses under my capital when I researched animal husbandry, and warriors in my city with one chariot doing perimeter sweep worked well. I would have built a couple of more chariots, but I was counting on the wall to finish early since I started on it right away after founding York.
But 8 barbs at a time?? Raging barbs was NOT on. I am experimenting with inland sea, which does seem to generate a lot of barbs relative to other maps, but 8 barbs (axeman, archers, and warriors) in a big wave?? I know there were a couple of barb cities nearby, but one of them was fairly new, and I've never been assaulted by so many barbs all at the same time before, no matter how many barb cities were nearby.
Anyway I was thinking about doing a GW + raging barbs strat to channel barbs into my neighbors' back yards. Has anyone done so, and with what results? And has anyone else run into an 8-barb convention that descended on their capital all at the same time?
P.S. that last screenshot was to explain why I worker-snatched Roosevelt. I just couldn't resist when I saw that nobody liked him, so I stole his worker, pillaged with the warrior that stole the worker, and escorted the worker halfway to London with that warrior before another warrior of mine escorted it the rest of the way down. My reasoning was that Roosevelt would be weakened and maybe Ragnar would expand north into Roosevelt's territory instead of expanding to me. I also expanded towards Ragnar to deter him from expanding any farther east towards me. Does anyone else steal/DoW on AIs that are NOT adjacent to them, and how does that work out? I'm experimenting a lot as I am still rather new to the game, but a long-distance DoW is a new one for me.
