Tweet
This is my first guide, so bear with me.
First, get doestication, then bronze working, then theocracy. after taht it is up to personal tastes.
If you start off wih domestication, then build up a stack of five to eight moounted archers and a slaver. use these to capture anyone that comes your way. keep only enough in the city to hold your slaves. If you don't, then build a slaver and a second city while waiting. once you have the two cities get two stacks of eight mounted archers and one slave. Leave one at home to police up anyone in your territory. Use the other to scout around until you find someone elses territry ande pick off thier people, but do not attack thier cutues. stock five phlanxes, two mounted archers, and one slaver in each city. Once you have done this then build graneries and such. If you are lucky you can get a few of the early wonders, but don't worry about them very much. I usually sick to temple, granery and marketplace for a while. You have enough units in each city to hold 21 slaves without a chance of revolt, and once you get them all of your regular population should go to science after you get happiness to 73. Continue to build the archer slaver stacks and look for new enemies. if you are lucky you will be in the middle of three or four of them. Send as many of those stacks in their territory as you can. When you only have enough room left to safely hold six or seven new slaves, then build a new city and fill it as the others. You should be able to build five cities full of slaves before slavers are gone, even more if your lucky. Those mounted archers will kill anything up to and including pickmen with relative ease, so just keep attacking. Always remember that all eight archers are worth one slave, so kill.
At some point you will runn out of slavers. DO NOT BUILD EMANCIPATION ACT until the AI starts to. You cannot afford to pay them and feed them as normal until later. Save what money you can. you will need it later. Once you get the academy you will leap ahead of everyone else in tech. Concetrate on improving you cities until at least muskets, though I usually wait for cavelry on larger maps. If you are patient you mioght even wait on tanks.
Yopur cities should be in the fourties or fifties while everyone else is in the fives and sixes. You can outproduce everyone, out science them, and you should have a small easily defended base of operations. The only problem you should have is gold, but since you don't have to rushbuy anything other than mayby a phlnax or two when cities are first started you shouold have a pile of gold to spare. Just remeber to max workday and wages, and get food as low as possable, and you will slaughter them all.
First, get doestication, then bronze working, then theocracy. after taht it is up to personal tastes.
If you start off wih domestication, then build up a stack of five to eight moounted archers and a slaver. use these to capture anyone that comes your way. keep only enough in the city to hold your slaves. If you don't, then build a slaver and a second city while waiting. once you have the two cities get two stacks of eight mounted archers and one slave. Leave one at home to police up anyone in your territory. Use the other to scout around until you find someone elses territry ande pick off thier people, but do not attack thier cutues. stock five phlanxes, two mounted archers, and one slaver in each city. Once you have done this then build graneries and such. If you are lucky you can get a few of the early wonders, but don't worry about them very much. I usually sick to temple, granery and marketplace for a while. You have enough units in each city to hold 21 slaves without a chance of revolt, and once you get them all of your regular population should go to science after you get happiness to 73. Continue to build the archer slaver stacks and look for new enemies. if you are lucky you will be in the middle of three or four of them. Send as many of those stacks in their territory as you can. When you only have enough room left to safely hold six or seven new slaves, then build a new city and fill it as the others. You should be able to build five cities full of slaves before slavers are gone, even more if your lucky. Those mounted archers will kill anything up to and including pickmen with relative ease, so just keep attacking. Always remember that all eight archers are worth one slave, so kill.
At some point you will runn out of slavers. DO NOT BUILD EMANCIPATION ACT until the AI starts to. You cannot afford to pay them and feed them as normal until later. Save what money you can. you will need it later. Once you get the academy you will leap ahead of everyone else in tech. Concetrate on improving you cities until at least muskets, though I usually wait for cavelry on larger maps. If you are patient you mioght even wait on tanks.
Yopur cities should be in the fourties or fifties while everyone else is in the fives and sixes. You can outproduce everyone, out science them, and you should have a small easily defended base of operations. The only problem you should have is gold, but since you don't have to rushbuy anything other than mayby a phlnax or two when cities are first started you shouold have a pile of gold to spare. Just remeber to max workday and wages, and get food as low as possable, and you will slaughter them all.
Comment