mjw's lame victory

[MJW (ya that one)]

I got DoWed by Norway and Germany before I could do anything. Through I manged to fend them off with archers it wasted a lot of time. It only took adding a little horses a little later to kill both off and take their cities so I did so. The key to get enough production (and gold to upgrade to archers) to fend off EMP AIs is to rush the second city as quickly as possible; don't know what to do about IMM and Deity. You want that second city anyway too. I should mention that I settled east (edit actually west) and a little south from my start for that city.

Then Greece DoWed Tomyris so I killed her too and then Greece. Then I raced for the spaceship but I mailed it in due to time being wasted earlier. Finished @ turn 289. The only notable thing that happened was that Carl caused massive overflow finishing two spaceparts and almost the third one. I think this is unintended and caused by modifiers multiplying the production. The best plan is probably is to rush Norway and hope Germany doesn't DoW you. Norway is going to DoW at some point so you might as well take them out as quickly as possible. EMP is probably weak enough to not justify horses if you play good too so it would be an archer rush.

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[Ranamar]

I got DoWed by Norway and Germany before I could do anything. Through I manged to fend them off with archers it wasted a lot of time. It only took adding a little horses a little later to kill both off and take their cities so I did so. The key to get enough production (and gold to upgrade to archers) to fend off EMP AIs is to rush the second city as quickly as possible; don't know what to do about IMM and Deity. You want that second city anyway too. I should mention that I settled east (edit actually west) and a little south from my start for that city.

Then Greece DoWed Tomyris so I killed her too and then Greece. Then I raced for the spaceship but I mailed it in due to time being wasted earlier. Finished @ turn 289. The only notable thing that happened was that Carl caused massive overflow finishing two spaceparts and almost the third one. I think this is unintended and caused by modifiers multiplying the production. The best plan is probably is to rush Norway and hope Germany doesn't DoW you. Norway is going to DoW at some point so you might as well take them out as quickly as possible. EMP is probably weak enough to not justify horses if you play good too so it would be an archer rush.

Wow, and I thought I was a warmonger.
(It turns out I was possibly one of the least-conquering people here.)

I suspect, if you have a decently-sized military, that Norway won't stab you in the back while killing Germany.  I got tired of waiting and ended up declaring on them straight-up.  It might be worth doing an early war to pick a couple cities off Norway anyway, though, since they'll probably settle the coast for you.