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by FredPret
406 days ago
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After that, play Civ 1 and follow the chariot swarm strategy. I forget the exact strategy, but it's something like this: - build your cities only two squares apart - research only until you can build chariots, then set Science to 0%. (This takes all the fun out of the game for me, but winning on Deity mode is nice too) - alternate between building colonists and chariots only. I think you build barracks as well - build cities until you have a dense network of ~50 closely packed cities, each very small. Then churn out chariots. - swarm everyone else with chariots ASAP. Hope that every enemy is reachable through dry land, or you're cooked. You can beat the game with the max number of computer players on the highest difficulty this way... if your chariot swarm doesn't cause a buffer overflow. |
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- Research only towards monotheism and swarm with crusaders
- More interesting variation to break the game: go for republic as soon as possible, only build cities near water and other high trade squares. Put luxury to 80% and max out trade in cities by putting production to water/max trade squares. Build temples, market places and aqueducts and reach 1M population well before 0AD. Once population is maxed, put tax to 80% and instead of building, just buy what you need including enemy cities and barbarians. This leaves you a bit vulnerable, but when it works out it's a lot of fun. You can have massive cities built on isolated island etc.
E: Also, if you manage, build colossus, observatory and Newton's college in the same city. By the end you'll churn out new advances every 2 turns.