When do you start conquering?

[Stryfe]

Re: what difficulty do you guys play?

Originally posted by Darth Sidious
seeing al this talk you prolly play pretty easy dif levels. killing someone fast really isn't possible on deity.

I'd like to see more people post usefull stuff on how to beat a chalenging game instead of bashing some dumb****s

Well I haven't tried this on Deity, but on Emperor, you ought to try playing with 16 Civs and a tiny world. That way, warfare is a necessity from the very beginning--you have to start waging war as soon as you can, but NOT immediately, because everyone has more units than you. Still, because everything is so crowded (most civs have 3 cities) that taking out one other civ makes you much more powerful down the line (think of the unit support costs--your military will be twice the size of anyone elses'). I was engaged in warfare with someone or another continuously almost the entire game, but by the middle ages, it was all over--I had 12 cities and was simply too big for anyone to contain (however, I was the least technologically advanced nation on earth, in part because no one liked me very much).

[notyoueither]

Caesar always plays Romans.

Caesar doesn't wait for Legions.

Explore, explore, Ohh look there's Paris... KILL!

Archers are more than up to it.

Gives me another (usually) great city site, just far enough away from my capital to make a good Forbidden Palace site. Also gives me much more usable land by KO'ing the nearest AI civ. The benefits are many and varied.

Darth Sidious:
Caesar is playing higher levels.

Salve