The Three Sisters

[Cort Haus]

I did alright on the obelisk tutorial conquest, so now I'm onto the 'Three Sisters'.

I've played a little way in, built five cities (accel prod. is wierd) and explored my quarter of the map, but only just discovered how you're supposed to get that threasure to the volcano - by fusing it into another unit.

Is it best to send it asap with the starting force, or use the start units to explore first, then build a civ and start pumpin' treasure?

[Cort Haus]

Hey, I've just met an Olmec warrior wearing red writing, and not far from the volcanoes. Shame it's only a spear I've got - I presume that their treasure is in that warrior, and in answer to my own question, you've got to get your own treasure moving pretty quickly. Looks like I'm forked then... unless I can kill everyone else's treasures.

Maybe I'll try a single-core epic game instead.

[kring]

Getting those Treasures to the Volcanoes is the key. Once you drop one off, another pops up in your capitol. It will probably take several trips to win. If you position some strong offensive units near the Volcanoes, you may be able to grab the other Treasures before they are dropped off.

[Dis]

nice quick scenario. You can still win maybe if you put the treasures on a fast unit.

My first treasure I put on a spearman. All the subsequent ones I put on javelin throwers.

[TheArsenal]

I liked this scenario. Definitely quick. Didn’t do a lot a building, fought a quick war and was able to pop workers with the Javelin throwers which were used primarily to build roads toward the volcano area.

[Cort Haus]

How many cities did people build?

[Dis]

I can't remember exactly. But I did build quite a few cities, I didn't actually need that many, but I wasn't that familiar with the scenario. I actually had one city razed in a war with another civ (horizontally accross from me). You just need enough cities to support a decent sized army. Building roads is just as important.

[Cort Haus]

I noticed that Granary's don't work out so well in hi-food cities with accel prod. OK for +5 food maybe, but +4 is innefficient.

[Stuie]

Alright, I found a cheap way to win this one. Attach the princess to one of your units, then build a settler and send the settler and all your archers/spearmen to the volcanoes. Build a defensive unit to protect your capital while they are travelling.

Then when you get near the volcanoes, build a city with the settler, disband your capital, and then deliver the princess.

Now your capital is only a couple squares from the VP locations, so the princesses spawn right there.

[Cort Haus]

[Cerbykins]

Of all the exploits I've seen, this has got to be one of the best ever

Almost makes me want to go back and do those 2 intro conquests I ignored

[vmxa1]

That does not sound like fun, but is clever.

[Kuciwalker]

My dad always says "You call it cheap, I call it effective"

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Stuie
Alright, I found a cheap way to win this one. Attach the princess to one of your units, then build a settler and send the settler and all your archers/spearmen to the volcanoes. Build a defensive unit to protect your capital while they are travelling.

Then when you get near the volcanoes, build a city with the settler, disband your capital, and then deliver the princess.

Now your capital is only a couple squares from the VP locations, so the princesses spawn right there.

That's just cruel to the poor ai. He can't ever compete with that.

[Theseus]

Nice one.