Emperor games C3C: how to improve your skills

[Mountain Sage]

Typically, on archipelago maps, you should be able to keep the tech lead by trading techs for gold and research at 80-100%.
The big drawback of the GLib is that it gives you a feeling of staying ahead of the pack while in reality at least one civ can go far ahead of you in techs, and possibly two...

In my play, I am the first in the Medieval Ages and I am researching Feudalism. I will switch to it then as to keep my research at 100% and have all the military for free. This government is not the best one, I admit, but for a conquest game it should be sufficient.
I have the same 'problem' that others. I can't get a MGL and I am militaristic!
Where can I check in the editor if I switched off the GL creation? (I'm pretty sure I didn't since I don't know where to look!).

[Aqualung71]

Well Mahi reported getting an MGL, so I guess we're just exceptionally unlucky

[mahi]

It is 1370AD now. The GL just became obsolete, giving me Education and Chemistry as the final techs. Germany is gone now and the battle with the Americans gave me two MGL in one turn. This has never happend in any of my previous games. It seems that all the missing leaders from you guys are put in my game . The Americans will have a bad time from now on facing my Knight-Army +MI-Army. I do not know now how I will fill my third army. The Pentagon is not far away, so my northern neighbours are also not very safe any more .
Is there any connection with military strength getting a leader ? I am always weak in military compared to my enemies. When I got the MGLs I assumed that the AI never has more than 4 - 5 units as defence in a city, so my offence consisted of one MI-Army, 12 trebs, 2 elite-Knights, 1 veteran knight and 1 elite MI. I bombarded the city with the trebs tearing down the defence. The Army killed two defenders. The remaining two defenders were taken out by the elite MI and the veteran knight. The Americans moved some units close to this city the turn before and I attacked with my two remaining elite knights and both gave me a MGL.

[Mountain Sage]

Originally posted by mahi
It seems that all the missing leaders from you guys are put in my game

You exchange ML? 3 for 1 in next game. Good prices, good quality. You get extra civ for free.
PLEASE......

[mahi]

Stalin is still available. He is waiting for some cavalries which will be ready in a few years only. I could afford him. More or less it does not matter anymore. Give me the address where to send him. Cairo ?

[Mountain Sage]

Finally I managed to get a ML after 20+ elite wins. Thanks mahi anyway. That army will wait for Knights (soon around...).

[Aqualung71]

I finally got one too, during the sack of the Sumerian capital which was the cultural leader with 5000 points and 5 wonders. That should stop there research efforts pretty well. Then created a cavalry army, left the city, abandoned it, and moved on towards the next Sumerian target. Not because we needed to, but because the Galleons had already departed for home leaving the suicide Cavalry squads to their fate (unbeknownst to them!).

[Mountain Sage]

Originally posted by Aqualung71
I finally got one too, during the sack of the Sumerian capital which was the cultural leader with 5000 points and 5 wonders. That should stop there research efforts pretty well. Then created a cavalry army, left the city, abandoned it, and moved on towards the next Sumerian target.

you abandoned a city with 5 wonders?

[Aqualung71]

The flip chances were obscene and it was so far away as to be a rather pointless acquisition.....so yes. It was not worth the chance of a flip compared to how badly it would nerf my only serious rival with the loss of their capital. Anyway, I quite like destroying 5-wonder AI cities. Learned it from Theseus

[vmxa1]

By the time you have gotten to raze a 5 wonder city you really don't need it. If it is a big metro (and it probably is), I may not want to commit that many troops to prevent a flip.

If I was stopping my drive anyway, then I can try to hold it, otherwise burn it.

If they have 5 wonders, I am playing at a high level and they will have more culture than me more often than not and I am likely to be far from my homeland.

[Aqualung71]

Originally posted by vmxa1
By the time you have gotten to raze a 5 wonder city you really don't need it. If it is a big metro (and it probably is), I may not want to commit that many troops to prevent a flip.

If they have 5 wonders, I am playing at a high level and they will have more culture than me more often than not and I am likely to be far from my homeland.

Yep, exactly my point. IIRC, the flipcalc told me that I'd need something like 110 troops to prevent a flip in the short term and I had something like a 50% flip chance in 10 turns. I've had cities flip with a fraction of that percentage before - the potential benefit of the wonders just wasn't part of the decision. In fact, I didn't even pay attention to which ones they were because it didn't matter to me!

[Mountain Sage]

Originally posted by Aqualung71
Learned it from Theseus

he and Arrian are not the best examples of PP gameplayers, you know...

[Aqualung71]

Originally posted by Mountain Sage

he and Arrian are not the best examples of PP gameplayers, you know...

Who said I had ambitions to be a PP?

Actually, I've heard rumours that you were supposed to be one, but my reading of your games say otherwise!

[Goethe80]

forum noob question.. whats a PP ?

[Krill]

Perfect peacenik

Ie switzerland...