War Elephants vs. Pikemen

Why REX when you have unstoppable killing machines that can take the land?



You aren't beelining hard enough then.

Beat the AI to construction on every start on immortal or deity and say that again :lol:.

There's a limit to what you can do if you don't get some insane commerce start. Cat/phant/axe will still have a window...but getting to it first and actually having enough production to mount a decent force? Doubtful you'll attain both without a nice start. The AI likes construction quite a bit (and it's not like it matters a great deal if they have construction, be thankful it didn't beeline monarchy then feudalism).
 
Beat the AI to construction on every start on immortal or deity and say that again :lol:.

There's a limit to what you can do if you don't get some insane commerce start. Cat/phant/axe will still have a window...but getting to it first and actually having enough production to mount a decent force? Doubtful you'll attain both without a nice start. The AI likes construction quite a bit (and it's not like it matters a great deal if they have construction, be thankful it didn't beeline monarchy then feudalism).

Well, it depends on who the neighbours are, and what speed you're playing.
 
Ok, if you really really want construction first on higher difficulties:
You probably should bulb mathematics while saving gold. Then tech masonry/construction. To do this fast, you won't have hereditary rule, but at least you have ivory (right?). So you'll probably have 2-4 cities working almost exclusively cottages, depending on map size.

2 simply isn't enough production to overcome the AI, even if you are lucky and can switch to all mines. 4 might be if you convert, but you probably won't have monarchy unless you can trade for it. If you have monarchy, you can go all farms, grow like crazy and whip stables in 1-2 cities.

I'm highly doubtful you'll have enough elephants defeat their initial stack and then attack a city. Unless it's gandhi.
 
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