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Good night, and good luck.
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| This is only my second attempt on a GOTM...
As I recently had my first success on Prince level, I downloaded this one just to give it a try.
And I can't believe I made it to my current time, AD 1200 or so !
I think I kinda overreacted to the barbarian menace lol
After I almost got eaten in the first turns, I kept producing units to get like 10 in each of my two cities  .
And I was micro-managing them like mad.
And until not so much time ago, I only got two cities. ha ha.
I was also quite surprised to see that 2 AI got eaten by the barbarians.
On the "Most powerful, most advanced civs bla bla" pop-ups, I can see that we are only 3 civs remaining.
It seems that the AI doesn't change its playing style facing raging barbarians.
I wasn't actually expecting this option to be a advantage for me !
Anyway, I'm quite excited to think that this GOTM might be my first submitable GOTM !
eventhough my score won't reach the skies of all yours !
Anyway, thanks for this save, quite colorful so far !
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| 10 units per city? That's a whole lot.
The challenge in the early game was indeed to gauge just how secure you are, how much effort you can afford to allocate to long-term growth rather than short-term defence needs. I don't think I ever had more than 4 units actively defending a city, usually only 3.
The trick to effective city defence was, I realized after a while, not to wait for the barbs to come to you, but take the fight to them. If you sit in your cities, they will keep raiding tile improvements, and occasionally assault the city in force. I figure that every barb that shows up on the border will attack sooner or later, so I might as well go out and meet him on favourable terms. I don't know exactly how the barb AI works, but there seems to be a set chance to attack any adjacent unit belonging to a civ. So I go out, walking through defensive terrain, hoping to "provoke" them into attacking me when in it. They usually do sooner or later. |
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Good night, and good luck.
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