[PBEM] Europe Classic 4

[sabrewolf]

well, i had the perfect start this game. mongols, classical era and horses nearby. had it not been quick game speed, you would have been toast before you got your 3rd tech

but how to play mongols on monarch? well, actually no different from most civs. keshiks are the same strong and same expensive as normal horse archers. they only move faster through hills. and we both no that you did not have many hills between our civs.

as for general horse-archer-rush: it's something i'm actually not good at. i have real problem FORCING myself to build many of these units and completely ignoring infrastructure. but it does pay out because you don't need to worry about the 3rd and 4th city... your neighbor will build it for you.

uhm, that's about it i guess. if you want GOOD strategy, ask the strategists in that forum... i barely play SP any more... no time

[GeoModder]

Rushing is the easy thing, but to maintain your conquest afterwards with the Mongol civ is my problem. Inevitably I lag behind then in techs and such compared with the other civs.

I've done succesfull horserushing with the Persians, but hadn't a problem keeping tech parity afterwards.

[sabrewolf]

ah, i get what you mean.

well, i never figured out how to extort techs from the weakened civs. especially when you've razed a city, they won't even consider it. i really don't know what i'm doing wrong there

as for surviving later on: i think one has to really just keep the cities with enough infrastructure/good land... usually i can easily swallow 2-3 extra cities by just reducing the tech rate minorly (like with your 3 kept cities in the EC4 game). but anything above that usually is quite tough and it has already caused me to lose a game at prince.

so basically... i cannot give you a straight answer regarding that, sorry...

[sabrewolf]

so, what's up here?

[GeoModder]

Nothing. Move along.

[Dauphin]

All my games have stalled over the last 2 days. I thought it was my inbox, but it's working just fine. :shrug:

[sabrewolf]

our paddy-games are on hold because he's away... this one here i don't know of...

[sabrewolf]

hey, geo, regarding your rematch... are you up for a duel game? and to spice up things, we'll add in 2 tough AIs (monarch level?) and raging barbs.

[GeoModder]

I can as well start one. My holiday plans are down the drain so there won't be a 2 week hiatus next month.

Will you play the Mongols *glup* again?
Note that only now I'm starting to play at Monarch, so my growth could show mediocre at first. But at least that will stress me on military.

Tiny map with 2 players, 2 strong AI's and raging barbs sounds fine to me. Do you have a preference on maptype? I like globe maps.

[g_storrow]

turn on sorry for the delay.

[sabrewolf]

1375ad to geomodder

[GeoModder]

Turn forwarded.

[sabrewolf]

oops, sorry

[GeoModder]

You better setup that rematch quickly.

[Dauphin]

Back from the Dead?

Ah, not it seems.

TO GS