England 600 AD start. Settled London, Plymouth and Dublin, Inverness flipped to me.
Chose to beeline Guilds for Knights in order to fulfill my Hundred Years' War fantasies and conquered France. I settled Brest (stupid choice, I know, but it's too late now) and used it as a springboard to take Bordeaux. The French collapsed soon after, and while I was hammering at indy Paris, those sneaky Dutch stole it from me. Discovered Mali, vassalized them.
Spent the next century or so beelining Rifling, built a SoD of Knights and Cannons and conquered Paris and Amsterdam, leaving the Dutch with just one city in Denmark. Capitulated them.
For some reason the Vikings had Frankfurt, and its culture was too strong: I had to conquer it so my other French and Dutch cities wouldn't starve. Germany collapsed earlier and I took Berlin. Got rifling at around 1670 and Astronomy afterwards, currently sending a Redcoat + Cannon x2 Galleon to India.
Dutch just collapsed and I helped myself to their city in Denmark.
It's 1715 now: although I have no New World posessions yet, it shouldn't be too hard to crush the Americans with my leftover troops. Currently Solid (20+). Cities are:
London
Inverness
Dublin
Plymouth
Brest
Bordeaux
Paris
Amsterdam
A city in Denmark, forgot the name
Berlin
Frankfort
I appear to be the only civ with Rifling at the moment. Like I said, I'm going for India now, which is indy and has very outdated units.
So, I need your advice so I can know what to do better next time.
Chose to beeline Guilds for Knights in order to fulfill my Hundred Years' War fantasies and conquered France. I settled Brest (stupid choice, I know, but it's too late now) and used it as a springboard to take Bordeaux. The French collapsed soon after, and while I was hammering at indy Paris, those sneaky Dutch stole it from me. Discovered Mali, vassalized them.
Spent the next century or so beelining Rifling, built a SoD of Knights and Cannons and conquered Paris and Amsterdam, leaving the Dutch with just one city in Denmark. Capitulated them.
For some reason the Vikings had Frankfurt, and its culture was too strong: I had to conquer it so my other French and Dutch cities wouldn't starve. Germany collapsed earlier and I took Berlin. Got rifling at around 1670 and Astronomy afterwards, currently sending a Redcoat + Cannon x2 Galleon to India.
Dutch just collapsed and I helped myself to their city in Denmark.
It's 1715 now: although I have no New World posessions yet, it shouldn't be too hard to crush the Americans with my leftover troops. Currently Solid (20+). Cities are:
London
Inverness
Dublin
Plymouth
Brest
Bordeaux
Paris
Amsterdam
A city in Denmark, forgot the name
Berlin
Frankfort
I appear to be the only civ with Rifling at the moment. Like I said, I'm going for India now, which is indy and has very outdated units.
So, I need your advice so I can know what to do better next time.