T-hawk Wrote:Landsknechts didn't give me any problems. I was worried that they would make it slow and bloody to conquer Boudica, but she capitulated after I only actually killed one Landsknecht.
I didn't catch on that Ruff chose the leader-civ combinations, though it makes sense. Monty of Rome and Caesar of India were both amusing combinations, but I thought they happened randomly. The (red-herring) giveaway was Isabella of Spain - I didn't think Ruff would pick a normal leader combo so thought that one came up randomly.
Mansa Musa of America is completely inferior to Mansa Musa of Mali. The switch deprives Mansa of his good defensive UU and solid UB, replacing them with a UU/UB somewhere beyond the end of time. Also, I'm still not sure what Ruff meant in the info page about Mansa Musa and his financial trait? He's still Financial even when leading another civ. :neenernee
Actually, keeping borders closed helped me against barbarians. The AIs walked several units up to my borders but stopped there and couldn't go further -- which meant they were fogbusting for me.
Also, I was really lucky in barb city spawns. Two popped up just a few tiles beyond my borders, but defended only by warriors so that holkans could take them. Barb cities themselves act as fogbusters (I think) so the area doesn't randomly spawn new units. The city can build units, but without strategic resources it's only warriors and archers, and they tend to stay in the city anyway.
Haha she came to me with few of those Landsknecht and most of my units were Macemen
.. trouble.Good point about fogbusting, didn't know that.
I've seen AI Rome fail to build Praets a few times before; the AI really seems to have no idea of their strength. One tip is to deny AI Rome horses, which will at least make them not divert effort into inferior mounted units.
