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Personally my experience is opposite: I've always found success in expanding quickly and throwing up defense towers and later fortresses, thereby draining the e

Personally my experience is opposite: I've always found success in expanding quickly and throwing up defense towers and later fortresses, thereby draining the enemy's strength when they launch a poorly-considered attack. To me, the game seems strongly favoring defensive strategies, and I'm fascinated to find someone who describes attacking early as key.

buro9 4y ago
I've found defense doesn't help a great deal once they've got battering rams. A nice tweak will be to make them more effective against gates but less effective against a fortress wall.
- pabs3 4y ago
  My favorite strategy is to race to tech level 3, start building as many champion cavalry as possible plus enough temples to heal them and then bleed off the enemy army/buildings with quick raids. Eventually you can beat any number of siege/elephant units that might come your way. Full towers, fortresses and upgrades are essential though. Building a new civic center near the enemy territory early is a good way to bleed off enemy workers. Same for ships on level with some water.
- CameronNemo 4y ago
  That is why you need your own rams or non-ranged warriors to destroy their rams. Also if you can deny your enemy's access to metal, perhaps with towers or guerrilla attacks, then they won't be able to build (more) rams.
Panzer04 4y ago
Typically this occurs because bots are so bad at building up that even with all that assistance a human can still outscale them. That's how it is in most games, so even as someone who's never played this game this is closer to what I'd expect.
- pbhjpbhj 4y ago
  I find with Civ V or 0ad the bots always arrived with a massive army (even on easy) when I have barely got a shed and a dude scratching out furrows with an asses jawbone. Still find them fun, most recently I got annihilated by tanks and 5 air squadrons, playing Civ V. For some reason my charioteers and pikes didn't hold up well.

buro9 4y ago

I've found defense doesn't help a great deal once they've got battering rams. A nice tweak will be to make them more effective against gates but less effective against a fortress wall.

pabs3 4y ago
My favorite strategy is to race to tech level 3, start building as many champion cavalry as possible plus enough temples to heal them and then bleed off the enemy army/buildings with quick raids. Eventually you can beat any number of siege/elephant units that might come your way. Full towers, fortresses and upgrades are essential though. Building a new civic center near the enemy territory early is a good way to bleed off enemy workers. Same for ships on level with some water.
CameronNemo 4y ago
That is why you need your own rams or non-ranged warriors to destroy their rams. Also if you can deny your enemy's access to metal, perhaps with towers or guerrilla attacks, then they won't be able to build (more) rams.

Panzer04 4y ago

Typically this occurs because bots are so bad at building up that even with all that assistance a human can still outscale them. That's how it is in most games, so even as someone who's never played this game this is closer to what I'd expect.

pbhjpbhj 4y ago
I find with Civ V or 0ad the bots always arrived with a massive army (even on easy) when I have barely got a shed and a dude scratching out furrows with an asses jawbone. Still find them fun, most recently I got annihilated by tanks and 5 air squadrons, playing Civ V. For some reason my charioteers and pikes didn't hold up well.