Your game is very differnt from mine Mutineer. I never met Persia or Askia. I think the huns may have rolled Persia and maybe Ethiopia beat down Askia. Im not sure since I have not scouted to the West at all after taking down Assyria.
That sounds impossible. Gao is to your immediate north, I don't really see a way to not meet Askia first, unless you don't explore
accident my friend I took out askia turn 65 in my game and forgot about him. I readjusted my post lol!
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I caught sight of their borders (twice!), but Atilla just kept steamrolling Persian cities the turn before I would be in range to meet Darius.Your game is very differnt from mine Mutineer. I never met Persia. I think the huns may have rolled Persia. Im not sure since I have not scouted to the West at all after taking down Assyria.
Its quite a mess indeed Venice was easy, but what kind of agreement prevents the peace there? Did someone (Darius pay you to go to war)?
I don't understand few things in your game tho - first Tanks are inferior to bombers. Second - your tanks are very generic, I'd expect to see tanks if you have several veteran horsemans, that get to modern armor and then tanks. I didn't see a tank with blitz for example.
Now radar makes you get Zero - zero needs no oil, so you can have like 30 bombers and upgrade the triplanes (I have no idea why you need that many tbh). So if you wanna speed it up, I suggest following :
Start building GWB pretty much in every city you can get em fast (but get the military academy, armory, etc. first) and especially in Kyoto with the gate - that while you finish up with Venice and while moving troops back. Get 3-4 carriers with cities in Satsuma and Cusco and 1-2 destroyers (upgrade (military buildings there too first), get Airport in Tokio and maybe in Satsuma. Get 2-3 privateers if its possible, so you can upgrade to Destroyers once you get the tech.
declare on Darius, and kill his fleet, then take Tarsus and move in with the carriers. Ectabana should be easy, while you are busy with this get some paratroopers, so you can speed up Persepolis.
Its really a shame that you have no bombers here, these take care of business way faster than the tanks ... And the problem is that darius is far ahead of you, so time victory is out of question, he is building boosters already, so I don't think you can get to Stealth fast enough, as virgin 60XP bombers might not even be enough (the cities have quite the strenght already).
And you don't seem to use the spies properly - I'd steal from Darius for sure ... Don't see the use of a diplomat there srsly.
BTW, maybe just the noobie (never played a game like Civ until ~~9 months ago), but when someone says "Sometimes it boggles me that anyone can struggle with Imm Level on Civ V (BNW or not)" it is neither encouraging nor helpful. Saying how you did it or putting up a Let's Play (please!) or more details. Just a suggestion.
WEll, I won it by domination victory by using Gs's and buy 2 GS's to get to stealth.
Darius bomb me about 10 times, all my mayor cities + front line cities, wiping out my conventional army and kill may be 15 stealth this way all together, but at the end 20 city production stealth + paratroopers did it.
WEll, I won it by domination victory by using Gs's and buy 2 GS's to get to stealth.
Darius bomb me about 10 times, all my mayor cities + front line cities, wiping out my conventional army and kill may be 15 stealth this way all together, but at the end 20 city production stealth + paratroopers did it.