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I was trying to see a way to have an early domination win so I tried out a tiny map pangea with 5 civs and standard speed prince level.
I played as Catherine. I started out next to Rome (the borders touched on the first bump!) and high tailed it to bronze. got copper right in my radius and cranked out some axes. I did do the setup for a CS slingshot (my normal start) and planned on using rome as my second city. Worked like a charm, too rome with three axes before he could get anything going. I finished the slingshot complete with an academy. One cool thing was that moscow had a gold hill and rome had two! Commerce was in good shape. The next target was Louis. I had gotten horses in my radius and built a couple of chariot that proved to be fairly useless. I invaded with 6 axemen and captured three cities and one was destroyed. That was the end of france. I spent a little time building up and researching to machinery before I took on germany. They proved to be a little harder because they founded more cities but they were toast by 800 AD. The only rival left was Cyrus. I did not need to fight him.
In between wars (and some during) I filled in some gaps with settlers and found that after all the cities had come out of resistance and had a culture bump that I had 70% land and 60% population, very close to domination. I set about building my pop up and ended up wining when the hanging gardens was finished and it pushed my population over the top. Anyone else win by hanging gardens? The game was over at 960AD. On that turn I had finished researching what I needed for Cossacs and could easily have continued on by whacking Cyrus.
I did my normal cs slingshot, aim for music next for the GA the work towards Libralisim to get Nationalism with the occasional detour to get something I wanted. I was able to trade COL to fill in all the gaps. The thing I found intersting about this was that on the tiny map the resources were a lot closser together. You tended to get more stuff inside your city than on standard sized maps. Also, I did not need to use any units stronger than maceman and I did not use catapults at all. My final score was more than 87000 which is my best score to date.
Because of the map size it was much easier to have a series of wars as you did not have far to go to get to the enemy.
I played as Catherine. I started out next to Rome (the borders touched on the first bump!) and high tailed it to bronze. got copper right in my radius and cranked out some axes. I did do the setup for a CS slingshot (my normal start) and planned on using rome as my second city. Worked like a charm, too rome with three axes before he could get anything going. I finished the slingshot complete with an academy. One cool thing was that moscow had a gold hill and rome had two! Commerce was in good shape. The next target was Louis. I had gotten horses in my radius and built a couple of chariot that proved to be fairly useless. I invaded with 6 axemen and captured three cities and one was destroyed. That was the end of france. I spent a little time building up and researching to machinery before I took on germany. They proved to be a little harder because they founded more cities but they were toast by 800 AD. The only rival left was Cyrus. I did not need to fight him.
In between wars (and some during) I filled in some gaps with settlers and found that after all the cities had come out of resistance and had a culture bump that I had 70% land and 60% population, very close to domination. I set about building my pop up and ended up wining when the hanging gardens was finished and it pushed my population over the top. Anyone else win by hanging gardens? The game was over at 960AD. On that turn I had finished researching what I needed for Cossacs and could easily have continued on by whacking Cyrus.
I did my normal cs slingshot, aim for music next for the GA the work towards Libralisim to get Nationalism with the occasional detour to get something I wanted. I was able to trade COL to fill in all the gaps. The thing I found intersting about this was that on the tiny map the resources were a lot closser together. You tended to get more stuff inside your city than on standard sized maps. Also, I did not need to use any units stronger than maceman and I did not use catapults at all. My final score was more than 87000 which is my best score to date.
Because of the map size it was much easier to have a series of wars as you did not have far to go to get to the enemy.