Okay, upper the difficulty after my first successful game from Regent to Emporer, figuring that I've got the basics down and can get down with the worst AI.
I randomized everything, and it looks like I'm on a Continental game, and I'm Chinese. Seeing that I was militaristic, and that I had just completed the Sumerians under the Builder/Space Race win, I decided to do an archer rush and start cleaning clocks.
I beat the hell out of the Romans, taking Rome and leaving them mostly out of the fight. I've got the Incans on the run, just taking a 10 man city from them, killing I think between 2-3 settlers and dealing with their Army and it's pathetic attempts to stop my swordsman army.
For the first time since I started playing, the Incas actually initiated contact and asked for a truce, actually OFFERING a great deal (where as I usually have to initiate contact when I've had enough of beating on them). I was about to take it, and I realized, "Wait a minute. I've got these clowns on the run. They've got almost a third of the continent under they're control. I should keep going."
So my questions:
1) When you are "pruning" other civilizations of their outlying towns, at what point do you stop? How much is too much when you have the advantage? I don't want them to be a threat later on, but I also don't want to completely annihilate them, as I get the feeling like I can use them to my advantage later.
2)Do you take over towns or destroy them during an attack like this? I've read that you take a hit on the global diplomatic scale if you raze a town, but it's a drain on my army to garrison troops there. I usually rush a barracks at the town closest to my towns for healing purposes if I plan on keeping it, but some of those internal and distant towns....just want to set some towns alight.
3) I've just finished researching Monarchy, but I'm still in the process of beating down on the Incans. I hate to switch over governments during a fight, but I also hate to lose out on all of that wasted productivity in my home cities. Should I keep Despotism, or seeing as I've got the Incans on their ass, change up and risk it? And for a warlike nation, which of the governments is the most beneficial? I imagine one with no war-weariness, as I plan on winning this game by taking over the map.
Think that's it for now. Thanks!
I randomized everything, and it looks like I'm on a Continental game, and I'm Chinese. Seeing that I was militaristic, and that I had just completed the Sumerians under the Builder/Space Race win, I decided to do an archer rush and start cleaning clocks.
I beat the hell out of the Romans, taking Rome and leaving them mostly out of the fight. I've got the Incans on the run, just taking a 10 man city from them, killing I think between 2-3 settlers and dealing with their Army and it's pathetic attempts to stop my swordsman army.
For the first time since I started playing, the Incas actually initiated contact and asked for a truce, actually OFFERING a great deal (where as I usually have to initiate contact when I've had enough of beating on them). I was about to take it, and I realized, "Wait a minute. I've got these clowns on the run. They've got almost a third of the continent under they're control. I should keep going."
So my questions:
1) When you are "pruning" other civilizations of their outlying towns, at what point do you stop? How much is too much when you have the advantage? I don't want them to be a threat later on, but I also don't want to completely annihilate them, as I get the feeling like I can use them to my advantage later.
2)Do you take over towns or destroy them during an attack like this? I've read that you take a hit on the global diplomatic scale if you raze a town, but it's a drain on my army to garrison troops there. I usually rush a barracks at the town closest to my towns for healing purposes if I plan on keeping it, but some of those internal and distant towns....just want to set some towns alight.
3) I've just finished researching Monarchy, but I'm still in the process of beating down on the Incans. I hate to switch over governments during a fight, but I also hate to lose out on all of that wasted productivity in my home cities. Should I keep Despotism, or seeing as I've got the Incans on their ass, change up and risk it? And for a warlike nation, which of the governments is the most beneficial? I imagine one with no war-weariness, as I plan on winning this game by taking over the map.
Think that's it for now. Thanks!
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