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7/13/2005 5:03 PM


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Greetings all, just started playing Conquests again after playing other games and my XBox for about a year.

So, of course I've been up to around 2 a.m. the last three nights.

But true to it's nature Civ always manages to suprise me. I started a Regent level game figuring that's where I left off before and was still getting my a$$ handed to me in Monarch games.

So I'm cruising along with my Japanese civ, I have the Ottoman's to my north and the Vikes to my west. Rome to the extreme north and the Persians were to my south but they had to go before they found their immortals. Very easy war since most of the Persian civ was in Tundra and very small and backward.

Well I just started building my Samurai and had an army made up of MI, Samurai and a few stacks of Pikemen and Trebuchet for good measure. I make the Ottoman's mad and start my war, early intelligence showed that the best unit they had was the longbowman and the first three cities I was scouting had two pikeman a piece guarding it.

My mistake was not checking out the Vikings to my west.

So I march into Ottoman territory and take the first city in the first round. Between that round and the next I hear that the Vikings and Ottoman's have signed a treaty against me. I quickly move my MI and some pikeman and new Musketmen over to that border to slow the Vikings (Which on last check still had only MI). Well, I completely forgot they had built not only The Temple of Zues but also the Crusades.

Bam, attacking my stacks of 12 MI and 15 Pikes and Muskets were about 20 Ancient Cavs and 25 Crusaders.

So, after that little war I had two Ottoman cities, a decimated western border in which I lost three cities and a huge chunk of my army.

I'm now building up some Cav's and infrastructure.

Love this game...


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7/14/2005 3:00 AM


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Yep. The best thing to do when the AI gets either of the two is to declare war on them right away. It's easy to pick off the Crusaders, one by one, even with longbow, than it is to wait until they get a stack of 30 of 'em, like you say!


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7/14/2005 7:00 AM


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thats scary, but fun if you can get both. one time, i found them all still in one city, not having moved at all the whole time.


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7/14/2005 8:34 AM


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I'll take out the Vikings before the Ottoman's any day.


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7/14/2005 8:41 AM


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hehe, recognise that!
The Vikings also wiped me out the first time I met them, but with Berserkers.


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7/14/2005 11:19 AM


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I find the Vikings are the easiest AI to manipulate since it's motives are so obvious... Attack everything. I think close to every game i've put on this board (Byzantines island diety, and the finish my game thread both have the vikings as a gracious ally).

Gotta guide them though... give them an enemy to attack and they'll ignore you


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7/14/2005 2:39 PM


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3/21/2007 2:23 PM
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Gotta guide them though... give them an enemy to attack and they'll ignore you


Yeah, luckily I was able to coax the Arabs into a alliance against them. Being that the Arabs were across an ocean it worked out well as the Vikes went after them and I made peace with them...


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8/5/2005 11:55 PM
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The Vikings can be tricky with the berserk unit and its amphibious attack capability. I left a city unoccupied on the coast once and then it wasn't mine with no battle. Their offense can be difficult early on too. Many times I've lost riflemen to them.
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7/28/2006 9:41 PM


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The thing you hv to know about vikings is if you hit them before they get the beserker they are gone like they were never there after that you dont mess wit them unless you feel like getting a beating.


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