Archer Rush Part II - Revenge of AAHZ...

[Theben]

Your situation looks pretty good. Your religious friends are all to your west, and with the mountains and tundra you have good choke points to hold them off if they decide to backstab you. A few walls and well placed defenders should safeguard your western borders. This means you can concentrate your forces to the east, and Isabella.

Try to leave 6-8 forest tiles around Babylon. It could be a good place for the National Park if you ever get there. Put your cottages around the river and your farms around the lake. Wonders should go there and enough food for specialists. Use the PHIL trait- if for nothing else have your GP start a Golden Age the turn you attack to switch civics for free (or get the GA earlier and switch the LAST turn before it ends).

Your capitol should be your money/science generator.

Finish connecting cities, then get Izzy when you feel ready.

You may want calendar soon (dye & spice to help happiness).

Finally go for Machinery, Civil Service, Theology, Feudalism. Go to Vassalage & Theocracy and spit out a ton of Longbowmen & Crossbowmen, plus the occasional Maceman. I don't know whether to go for Combat I, Cover I, Drill II Crossbows or straight Drill IV, but I'm sure you can figure it out. At this point feel free to kill anyone and everyone. Good luck.

[LzPrst]

good fun it seems

[Theben]

The people demand an update.

ps. I just noticed- if you put a fort just north of Poverty Point, and another adjacent to Mound City, you'd have a canal from the south side of the continent to the north!

[ZEE]

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[jbp26]

Originally posted by AAHZ
i have tried bizarre canal combinations before (double canals, canal/city/canal and other stuff) all to no avail. i will try that out, though.

did you know that if you have a fort as a canal, and you have a ship in it, it can be attacked by land units? i found this out yesterday when my marine killed a destroyer.

[Yosho]

Originally posted by jbp26


did you know that if you have a fort as a canal, and you have a ship in it, it can be attacked by land units? i found this out yesterday when my marine killed a destroyer.

Yeah. That's always been true, actually, although it didn't come up as much before you could use forts like that. It also happens if both me and the guy I'm at war with have an open borders treaty with a third guy; I can leave units in his cities, and the guy I'm at war with can attack them. So I can have a battleship in player B's city, and then player C who also has an open borders treaty with player B can send in a few tanks to attack my battleship there, and they directly fight each other.

[ZEE]

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[ZEE]

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[Theben]

Vilcas must burn

[ZEE]

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[DaShi]

I was just thinking about you in my latest game AAZH. I got the event that gives all my melee units the cover upgrade.

[Theben]

I had my Dog Soldiers get the Shock Promotion event. Talk about deadly to melee units...

Good lord, there's a lot of gold around AAHZ's empire, and iron (west of Babylon).
btw, last bit o' advice, if you're going to be Xian and run Org Religion, spread the faith around a bit. Otherwise good job.

[Theben]

Ok, I lied. This is my last advice: put a city between the 2 gold and 1 iron NW of Babylon, and put a 2nd to secure the Stone near (old)Moscow. You can't beat 1/4 cost walls and castles.

[ZEE]

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[Theben]

If you can trade Mansa for Machinery, DO it!