So Just left a game where I was playing england on a standard continent map, at empereor level. And I got to say, I got my ass kicked because of the WC for the first time.
Since the beging I was planing for a conquest victory. Got a huge luck at my start. At the first move of my warrior I found El Dorado and bought a setler as soon as I could. After setting up my citys I went for Great Lighthouse, Colossus and Hanging Gardens in this order.
On my continent I had Egypt right next to me, Venice little up, Siam after Venice and finally greece. After getting 3 sword man, 2 archers and 2 catapults I took thebes quitly easy eliminating Egipt. I had friendship with venice so I decided to buy open borders and proceed to attack Siam(which I think was my mistake on the game), After destroying Siam and having a good lead on tech I proceeded to attack greece. After gathering all my forces on their borders things began to get ugly. Polynesia who was at the other continent declared war on me with greece and Venice. I managed to hold polinesia's reinforcemets with 2 ships of the line and got greece elimated. At the same time, Venice captured Thebes. On next turn the votes on the congress just sealed my destiny. Embargo city states and ban Wine. As you guys can imagine all city states were in control of Venice so even if I ended the war I could not trade with then, so happines and gold just went to the floor. I proceeded to take one of the city states that Venice had as Puppet, just to discover that I cant liberate it. At this point of the game I jsut game up. With so little gold and rebels spawing as crazy near my capital where I could not defend properly beucase my troops where way far fight Venice I was just doomed.
My culture tree at the end was full Tradition and full Honor. I guess if I had attacked as soon as finished ramnses I could have won this game. They would have only one city state as puppet, I would not lost thebes, and I could clear my continent way faster without city states attacking me. Still I think I did pretty good holding my ground against so many AIs, but...well more than 3 hour on the trash can :(
Another thing, I'm definitly bad at playing on sea maps, which I was better using ships.
Since the beging I was planing for a conquest victory. Got a huge luck at my start. At the first move of my warrior I found El Dorado and bought a setler as soon as I could. After setting up my citys I went for Great Lighthouse, Colossus and Hanging Gardens in this order.
On my continent I had Egypt right next to me, Venice little up, Siam after Venice and finally greece. After getting 3 sword man, 2 archers and 2 catapults I took thebes quitly easy eliminating Egipt. I had friendship with venice so I decided to buy open borders and proceed to attack Siam(which I think was my mistake on the game), After destroying Siam and having a good lead on tech I proceeded to attack greece. After gathering all my forces on their borders things began to get ugly. Polynesia who was at the other continent declared war on me with greece and Venice. I managed to hold polinesia's reinforcemets with 2 ships of the line and got greece elimated. At the same time, Venice captured Thebes. On next turn the votes on the congress just sealed my destiny. Embargo city states and ban Wine. As you guys can imagine all city states were in control of Venice so even if I ended the war I could not trade with then, so happines and gold just went to the floor. I proceeded to take one of the city states that Venice had as Puppet, just to discover that I cant liberate it. At this point of the game I jsut game up. With so little gold and rebels spawing as crazy near my capital where I could not defend properly beucase my troops where way far fight Venice I was just doomed.
My culture tree at the end was full Tradition and full Honor. I guess if I had attacked as soon as finished ramnses I could have won this game. They would have only one city state as puppet, I would not lost thebes, and I could clear my continent way faster without city states attacking me. Still I think I did pretty good holding my ground against so many AIs, but...well more than 3 hour on the trash can :(
Another thing, I'm definitly bad at playing on sea maps, which I was better using ships.