Well this will be brief and to the point. I accidentally lost the saves (autosave) so I only have screenshots to go by. I seriously underestimated the power of Praets (not to mention aggro praets) so I probably didn't get many awards since I was fairly cautious.
I founded three cities right in the immediate vicinity which had a good number of hills and could reach size 5-6 with no problems, built three workers, barracks, a few archers and everything else was praets (couple of missionaries also).
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My research path was Hunting, AH, BW, Iron Working. Then I got archery and casually headed for catapults, but I never needed them.
I got a spread of Judaism early from the Egyptians, so I switched to match their religion and left them until last. I thought about bribing them into war, but wasn't able to early on, and then figured I might as well get the points for kills.
The only close call was when I made my initial assault against Ragnar. I came in with 5(?) praets, easily took a city that he had placed by the spices just to the west of my Antium. I took my Praets over to the capital and added a few, but was not able to take the city (I killed most units, but a couple were left over and the axes were too much for my praets). On the home front Ragnar sent over 7-8 units, mostly promoted axes, which came very close (last unit had to be killed by a nearby archer). At the same time I had a few barbs threaten my cities. After that it was smooth sailing.
I started against Ragnar around 750BC and finished him off around 200BC (I was starting to hurt from WW at that point). Then I started on Tokugawa and went right through him (200BC - 300AD), Wang Kong (300AD - 660AD), and then finished the egyptians off, winning conquest in 720AD.
I could have sped the process up by going against the egyptians while still attacking Wang Kong, but stayed with one enemy at a time. My highest unit only reached 13 exp, mostly because they never reached the battle again after healing.
I killed somewhere between 100 - 150, but unfortunately I didn't save the full results (so it could be lower, no points for me either way). I founded no religions and met none of the other goals; I could have stopped Praet production and gone for some of the other prizes but was in the click-win mindset. I saved some of the cities (mostly the capitals) that I took, but didn't have too much problem with money. My units did go on strike right when I was ready to take Wang Kon's capital, but I was able to recover that by switching to some $$$ tiles.
It was a fun game, but the points system was definitely open to exploitation. I read the messages here and decided to stay on the high road as well.
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FoxyLolla live
I founded three cities right in the immediate vicinity which had a good number of hills and could reach size 5-6 with no problems, built three workers, barracks, a few archers and everything else was praets (couple of missionaries also).
My research path was Hunting, AH, BW, Iron Working. Then I got archery and casually headed for catapults, but I never needed them.
I got a spread of Judaism early from the Egyptians, so I switched to match their religion and left them until last. I thought about bribing them into war, but wasn't able to early on, and then figured I might as well get the points for kills.
The only close call was when I made my initial assault against Ragnar. I came in with 5(?) praets, easily took a city that he had placed by the spices just to the west of my Antium. I took my Praets over to the capital and added a few, but was not able to take the city (I killed most units, but a couple were left over and the axes were too much for my praets). On the home front Ragnar sent over 7-8 units, mostly promoted axes, which came very close (last unit had to be killed by a nearby archer). At the same time I had a few barbs threaten my cities. After that it was smooth sailing.
I started against Ragnar around 750BC and finished him off around 200BC (I was starting to hurt from WW at that point). Then I started on Tokugawa and went right through him (200BC - 300AD), Wang Kong (300AD - 660AD), and then finished the egyptians off, winning conquest in 720AD.
I could have sped the process up by going against the egyptians while still attacking Wang Kong, but stayed with one enemy at a time. My highest unit only reached 13 exp, mostly because they never reached the battle again after healing.
I killed somewhere between 100 - 150, but unfortunately I didn't save the full results (so it could be lower, no points for me either way). I founded no religions and met none of the other goals; I could have stopped Praet production and gone for some of the other prizes but was in the click-win mindset. I saved some of the cities (mostly the capitals) that I took, but didn't have too much problem with money. My units did go on strike right when I was ready to take Wang Kon's capital, but I was able to recover that by switching to some $$$ tiles.
It was a fun game, but the points system was definitely open to exploitation. I read the messages here and decided to stay on the high road as well.
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FoxyLolla live