Mack_Jagger
Warlord
Hello Mack Jagger here, still wrestling monarch difficulty. I posted a game save a couple of weeks ago and got som great advice from Gooblah, but that was for a semi isolated start. This time I seek your wisdom in why my game always seems to lose momentum after liberalism.
A short history how I got to where I am right now. I founded my capital Amsterdam on a peninsula with gold in the fat cross, city number two contained three sources of jewels and city number three claimed iron. This was a great start for a financiall leader and I lead the tech race in the early era. As soon as i got iron online I started spamming swordmen, while beelining to construction. My neighbours were Boudica and Catherine so you might understand I wanted an millitary edge. And yeah, Rameses was hemmed in to north as well.
My game plan was to teach away with military techs, clear out my continent and then tech to a space victory, since I havent got one of those in Bts.
The campaign against Boudica went along fine I took three of here citys, including her capital, before she vassalized here self to Catherine who invited Rameses in for the fun. I continued the war until I got one more city. I don't remeber which one but due to culture pressure I needed to get that fourth city as well. Rameses war effort constrained it self to send one pathetic little stack and Catherine didn't do anything at all. Obviously they were unprepard for war.
I made peace with Catherine and focused on infrastructure. I also got a back fill buddy in Justinian who was on another continent. I was one turn away from liberalism in the early 900 ADs and put the tech on hold, no one was even close to education at that time. I had it on hold untill I could grab steel from it and then upgraded all my swords and maces to grenadiers and renewed the war, thinking it was cleaning time.
One stack whent in to Gaul to grab the last few citys of Boudica and the main stack whent in to Russia to finish of Catherine. She had a big chunk of land so that would obviously take some time. The war against Gaul went fine I grabbed two citys but was forced to abandon one when Boudica showed up with an hilariously big stack of medeval junk, maces and horse archers and such. A temporary set back and I eventually pushed her of the continenet. She still had some citys scattered along on some small island, but there wasn't anything I could do at that for the moment.
And Rameses declared as well but he was a non factor in this war as in the previuos one.
I swung the gaulish invasion force north to join in on the russian front, which had advanced in an nice and controlled manner. I got some price citys for my effort and from the city of Novgorod I advanced on an ridge aginst the grand price it self, Moscow. But there an ugly sight awaited. The city was packed with curiassiers, an amount of units that trebbled that of my invasion force. Probably Catherine built the statue of Zeus because I was suffering badly from war weariness, Amstedam was down to pop 7 and I didn't have the production capacity to face all of those curiassiers. I made peace and gifted Novgorod back, since it was swamped with russian culture. Okay that didn't go quite as planned.
More infrastructure work and techtrading. I was starting to loose my momentum, Justinan was cathing up and Bismarck and Rameses passed me in score. I still wanted to clean out my continent but the next obvius step was to tech cavalary but Catherine wasn't far from cossacks so that didn't quite appeal to me. So i abided my time, teched to assembly line, upgraded all my foot soldiers to infantry, fortitfied with machine guns, got to industrialism before Catherine declared war, yeah yeah you think your tough lady? Send your scrawny ponys to face my tanks, do that ha ha ha! Oh so you got artillery as well, hmm that makes the situation less amusing. And oh you got a shitload of them, okay I stop laughing now.
Tha initial combat stood in the surroundings of the former Russian city of Yekaterinenburg. I had fortified the hill in front of city with guerilla II machineguns and infantry. I didn't have artillery and wanted to take the brunt of that menacing artillery stack of hers. I only had one tank that had reached the front but more were coming in. And tha AI stupied as it sometimes is, attacked the small outpost on the hill and wasted god knows how many units of artillery. And the waves of russian cossacks and artillery just keept coming. It wasn't a biggy because she was lossing units not me. In the game save I'm just about to go on the offence but now i realize I don't want to. I don't want to deal with the teadious work of conquering russia, to ruin my ecnomy and start a neck to neck race for the space race win, which I would most likely loose to Justinian.
This game is still winnable but that's not the point. I have been playin monarch difficulty for quite som time and don't want the struggle anymore. If this had been an emperor game it would have been different but I would like to now why I'm not able to win comfortable on moarch. What is my game lacking? Is a solid base game all you need to win comfortably on monarch or are gambits of some sorts needed to achive that? My diplomacy could have been better in this game, my only good friend is Justinian, Bismarck is my buddy as well but I don't want to trade to much with him since he is the leader of the world and all.
If some of you could find the timeof taking a look on the game save and come with som constructive critisism I would be very thankfull.
Hm i don't really understand how to manage thum nails. But in any case the first picture shiws the front at Yekaterinenburg and the second the science city of Bibracte. And why am I posting thoose? For no particular reason but to tempt you to open the game save,
A short history how I got to where I am right now. I founded my capital Amsterdam on a peninsula with gold in the fat cross, city number two contained three sources of jewels and city number three claimed iron. This was a great start for a financiall leader and I lead the tech race in the early era. As soon as i got iron online I started spamming swordmen, while beelining to construction. My neighbours were Boudica and Catherine so you might understand I wanted an millitary edge. And yeah, Rameses was hemmed in to north as well.
My game plan was to teach away with military techs, clear out my continent and then tech to a space victory, since I havent got one of those in Bts.
The campaign against Boudica went along fine I took three of here citys, including her capital, before she vassalized here self to Catherine who invited Rameses in for the fun. I continued the war until I got one more city. I don't remeber which one but due to culture pressure I needed to get that fourth city as well. Rameses war effort constrained it self to send one pathetic little stack and Catherine didn't do anything at all. Obviously they were unprepard for war.
I made peace with Catherine and focused on infrastructure. I also got a back fill buddy in Justinian who was on another continent. I was one turn away from liberalism in the early 900 ADs and put the tech on hold, no one was even close to education at that time. I had it on hold untill I could grab steel from it and then upgraded all my swords and maces to grenadiers and renewed the war, thinking it was cleaning time.
One stack whent in to Gaul to grab the last few citys of Boudica and the main stack whent in to Russia to finish of Catherine. She had a big chunk of land so that would obviously take some time. The war against Gaul went fine I grabbed two citys but was forced to abandon one when Boudica showed up with an hilariously big stack of medeval junk, maces and horse archers and such. A temporary set back and I eventually pushed her of the continenet. She still had some citys scattered along on some small island, but there wasn't anything I could do at that for the moment.
And Rameses declared as well but he was a non factor in this war as in the previuos one.
I swung the gaulish invasion force north to join in on the russian front, which had advanced in an nice and controlled manner. I got some price citys for my effort and from the city of Novgorod I advanced on an ridge aginst the grand price it self, Moscow. But there an ugly sight awaited. The city was packed with curiassiers, an amount of units that trebbled that of my invasion force. Probably Catherine built the statue of Zeus because I was suffering badly from war weariness, Amstedam was down to pop 7 and I didn't have the production capacity to face all of those curiassiers. I made peace and gifted Novgorod back, since it was swamped with russian culture. Okay that didn't go quite as planned.
More infrastructure work and techtrading. I was starting to loose my momentum, Justinan was cathing up and Bismarck and Rameses passed me in score. I still wanted to clean out my continent but the next obvius step was to tech cavalary but Catherine wasn't far from cossacks so that didn't quite appeal to me. So i abided my time, teched to assembly line, upgraded all my foot soldiers to infantry, fortitfied with machine guns, got to industrialism before Catherine declared war, yeah yeah you think your tough lady? Send your scrawny ponys to face my tanks, do that ha ha ha! Oh so you got artillery as well, hmm that makes the situation less amusing. And oh you got a shitload of them, okay I stop laughing now.
Tha initial combat stood in the surroundings of the former Russian city of Yekaterinenburg. I had fortified the hill in front of city with guerilla II machineguns and infantry. I didn't have artillery and wanted to take the brunt of that menacing artillery stack of hers. I only had one tank that had reached the front but more were coming in. And tha AI stupied as it sometimes is, attacked the small outpost on the hill and wasted god knows how many units of artillery. And the waves of russian cossacks and artillery just keept coming. It wasn't a biggy because she was lossing units not me. In the game save I'm just about to go on the offence but now i realize I don't want to. I don't want to deal with the teadious work of conquering russia, to ruin my ecnomy and start a neck to neck race for the space race win, which I would most likely loose to Justinian.
This game is still winnable but that's not the point. I have been playin monarch difficulty for quite som time and don't want the struggle anymore. If this had been an emperor game it would have been different but I would like to now why I'm not able to win comfortable on moarch. What is my game lacking? Is a solid base game all you need to win comfortably on monarch or are gambits of some sorts needed to achive that? My diplomacy could have been better in this game, my only good friend is Justinian, Bismarck is my buddy as well but I don't want to trade to much with him since he is the leader of the world and all.
If some of you could find the timeof taking a look on the game save and come with som constructive critisism I would be very thankfull.
Hm i don't really understand how to manage thum nails. But in any case the first picture shiws the front at Yekaterinenburg and the second the science city of Bibracte. And why am I posting thoose? For no particular reason but to tempt you to open the game save,
