Wanna beat emperor? This is it!

[Chemical Ollie]

*BUMP*

Am I the only one who has tried this map? 14 of you have downloaded it. How did you perform?

[Arrian]

Olaf,

I recently finished my first really successful Emperor game, also as Egypt. I don't really like large maps (games are just too long), so I fished around for a good spot on a normal map.

What I got was 5 cows with a river (well, I had to move 1 tile to get them in the radius). I believe I have the 4000bc save... want it?

Let's just say that things went well for me. Very, very well. Not that there weren't dicey moments, mind you.

-Arrian

[alva]

Next step, normal start

[Arrian]

Normal start... that's when you only get 2 cows, right?

-Arrian, seeker of really nice start spots

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Arrian
Olaf,

I recently finished my first really successful Emperor game, also as Egypt. I don't really like large maps (games are just too long), so I fished around for a good spot on a normal map.

What I got was 5 cows with a river (well, I had to move 1 tile to get them in the radius). I believe I have the 4000bc save... want it?

Let's just say that things went well for me. Very, very well. Not that there weren't dicey moments, mind you.

-Arrian

Sure, post it, I'll give it a try. I'm currently playing as Iroquis on Marla's Earth, doing well so far on emperor level. Expansionist comes to it right on huge maps and those mounted warriors are unstoppable. Got about 10 techs and 2 settlers from huts. But I think my old 450 MHz CPU will stall when the game reaches the industrial age, so then I might try your map.

[Arrian]

Olaf,

Damn, I may not have time to post the start before next week. It's just as well you're playing another one.

By the way, I tried out Marla's Map once too, on Monarch as China. What a start spot... if only I was the warmonger I am now. But I digress. I have a 400mhz machine. By the time I hit the Industrial Age, the turns were taking 45 minutes each. I warn you now! The horror! The horror!

-Arrian

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Arrian
Olaf,

Damn, I may not have time to post the start before next week. It's just as well you're playing another one.

By the way, I tried out Marla's Map once too, on Monarch as China. What a start spot... if only I was the warmonger I am now. But I digress. I have a 400mhz machine. By the time I hit the Industrial Age, the turns were taking 45 minutes each. I warn you now! The horror! The horror!

-Arrian

Yeah, I remember my last game on Marla. Each AI turn took 30 minutes. In this game, I just went industrial, and the AI still only need less than 5 minutes each turn. Is something wrong? Perhaps it's because they have made war on each other and thus don't have huge stacks of troops to move around. By the way, I have over 1700 score in 800 AD. I can't recall having more points this early, ever! I will play this game to the end, even if the AI would take 2 hours per turn. I have finally learned to turn cultural win off. Otherwise, I will win when I least expect it. This game will be a milker, so that I grow bored of CIV3 and spend more time with my kids. (see this link: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...7&pagenumber=1)

But when I get my 2.56 GHz CPU in late November, Marla will be my lover.

[vmxa1]

I have never seen turns of more than 2 minutes, even when they were moving over 150 tanks. It is boring. Once I played on Huge 16 civs and only 3 ever were eliminated and I play a domination, so it went to 2050 and the turns were quick. I was at war with all civs most of the time. This is on just a amd 2100+. Not even my fastest pc.

[alva]

don't worry about the processor, make sure you have enough memory

This is on just a amd 2100+. Not even my fastest pc.

showoff

[vmxa1]

In a world of 2.6G or moe, mine is not much.

[Wizard55]

Olaf,
You are either a great game player or a great story teller.
It is really hard for me to believe you can win on emperor level in 1805 AD.
Example: you rush an airport and then flew in lots of infantry and bombers.

Over what amont of time. My hat is off to you sir.

These are my thoughts, thanks for listening.

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Wizard55
Olaf,
You are either a great game player or a great story teller.
It is really hard for me to believe you can win on emperor level in 1805 AD.
Example: you rush an airport and then flew in lots of infantry and bombers.

Over what amont of time. My hat is off to you sir.

These are my thoughts, thanks for listening.

Well, I have learnt a lot by playing the tournaments and reading the hints on Apolyton.

You can fly as many units as you like into one city on one turn, as long as you have enough airports to fly them from. This is a common strategy for oversea invasion from the late industrial era and on.

I think I flew in about 10 new units every turn over 10-15 turns. Tanks in the later stage. Look at my modern era savegame and count the units I have on the Babylonian continent. Most of those arrived by air.

Have you tried the 4000 BC save game?

[Datajack Franit]

Exactly- enough practise and anyone in this forum could beat emperor

[Arrian]

Wizard,

You also have to bear in mind that the game just moves faster on the higher levels, because of the AI's increased science rate. So when the human catches up (via the Great Library and/or beating tech out of the enemy, err... AI), you're way ahead of where you would have been on say... Regent. Therefore, Bombers and Infantry in 1805 isn't really that big a deal.

I just finished an Emperor game in the 1600 or 1700s, I forget which, and I was several techs into the Modern Age (mmmm, 3xTank+1 mech inf armies... wow, those rock. I had 4 of 'em).

-Arrian

[alva]

wining emperor around 1700 sounds normal to me (standard map)
Like arian said, just breaking modern (I have yet to build a spaceship part/sdi/oil platform?/....)