Well just for fun

[grognardgary]

I thought I tried a marathon domination run on a huge Pangaea map. Early candidate of choice are Gilgamesh, Nubia and Tomrys All chosen because they get early fast units so I can get most of the work done as early as possible. Other suggested civs?

[Oaks]

I've always wanted to try a domination run with Alexander.

"Macedonian cities never incur war weariness. All military units heal completely when a city with a Wonder is captured."

Get lucky with finding a wonder, just keep chugging across the map.

[Sstavix]

Julius Caesar may be a good choice, too.

[Pokepug]

I like Cyrus for stuff like that too. decent early unit and his surprise bonus works all game. People hate you but if you're a warmongering lunatic anyway might as well surprise war all you want.

Matthias is fun too. Just build for gold early and rent your army from city states. Every time you hire mercs from a CS they add troops to defend themselves while their army is fighting your wars so their armies get huge. You easily get massive cheaply upgraded armies and can fight on multiple fronts all day long.

[grognardgary]

Thank you gentlemen.

[gdshore]

I do a lot of Archipelago, so i use Basil often, or Dido.

[Evrach]

İlk olarak grognardgary tarafından gönderildi:

I thought I tried a marathon domination run on a huge Pangaea map. Early candidate of choice are Gilgamesh, Nubia and Tomrys All chosen because they get early fast units so I can get most of the work done as early as possible. Other suggested civs?

Canada !

[grognardgary]

Well 177 turn into Marathon Pangaea huge. Trajan and Shaka have fallen to my forces. Next up gilgamesh or Joao of portugal I wound up going with Tomyris as much because I've never played her before and I've played everyone else but Canada and she won the coin toss.

[Oaks]

İlk olarak grognardgary tarafından gönderildi:

Well 177 turn into Marathon Pangaea huge. Trajan and Shaka have fallen to my forces. Next up gilgamesh or Joao of portugal I wound up going with Tomyris as much because I've never played her before and I've played everyone else but Canada and she won the coin toss.

Those early horse archers are fearsome.

[grognardgary]

And in another fifty - 100 turns I may finally have some, That another problem every thing takes for ever on the other hand archer are good for a very long time.

[plaguepenguin]

If fast units are what you want, both Cyrus and Matthias are the people you are looking for.

It is true that for Matthias you need a lot of gold to levy before you get the foreign ministry, so that will cramp the style you seek in the early game.

Cyrus gets his +2 movement points from the start, but I'm not clear on how long the surprise war effect lasts on marathon speed. If it's upped to 30 turns, you wouldn't have much trouble declaring a surprise war on somebody every 30 turns. If it's 10 turns, I'm not sure that would work too well. Making more civs than usual for a huge map would help, since you would need a lot of civs on the rotation to make it so that there was always one available to declare on.

[grognardgary]

İlk olarak plaguepenguin tarafından gönderildi:

If fast units are what you want, both Cyrus and Matthias are the people you are looking for.

It is true that for Matthias you need a lot of gold to levy before you get the foreign ministry, so that will cramp the style you seek in the early game.

Cyrus gets his +2 movement points from the start, but I'm not clear on how long the surprise war effect lasts on marathon speed. If it's upped to 30 turns, you wouldn't have much trouble declaring a surprise war on somebody every 30 turns. If it's 10 turns, I'm not sure that would work too well. Making more civs than usual for a huge map would help, since you would need a lot of civs on the rotation to make it so that there was always one available to declare on.

It is five turns. I've played Cyrus a lot. It is turn 280 or so now I've get four Joao, Shaka Trajan and Gilgamesh down Headed for Ambiorix next. My archer swarm is kicking but.

[grognardgary]

Got ambiorix walls starting to pop up got to get more archers before I move on. Ancient era coming to an end.

[grognardgary]

Steam punk vickie down working on Qing.

[Komodo Bebop]

Basil is most OP domination civ in the game. Get Crusade as one of your first 2 beliefs and spam you're religion either with missonaries or by war in the early game, then get cross cultural dialog, and out tech everyone with GDR in the industrial era.

[grognardgary]

If every thing continues to go as it currently is the game will be over by the medieval era.