Age of Discovery a cinch with Portugal

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I am working my way through the scenarios, and I think that Age of
Discovery with Portugal may be the easiest one yet.

My strategy was to hold off attacks from France and Spain, using
Explorers to pillage (especially iron resource squares), avoid war, and
settle as much of brazil and the carribean as possible.

On Regent level -- (by the way, is playing Regent pathetic once you get
the ropes? do you regulars play Monarch?) -- this was a runaway victory
point victory.

Never needed gem, silver or gold mines, never needed colonial capital,
never needed man-o-war, or privateers even. Just cranked out pikemen,
workers and a few knights, letting my wonders produce colonists and
frigates.

Has anyone won not playing Portugal? And playing at Monarch?

 

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On 12 Jan 2005 10:08:56 -0800, commandoLine@yahoo.com wrote:

>I am working my way through the scenarios, and I think that Age of
>Discovery with Portugal may be the easiest one yet.
>
>My strategy was to hold off attacks from France and Spain, using
>Explorers to pillage (especially iron resource squares), avoid war, and
>settle as much of brazil and the carribean as possible.
>
>On Regent level -- (by the way, is playing Regent pathetic once you get
>the ropes? do you regulars play Monarch?) -- this was a runaway victory
>point victory.
>
>Never needed gem, silver or gold mines, never needed colonial capital,
>never needed man-o-war, or privateers even. Just cranked out pikemen,
>workers and a few knights, letting my wonders produce colonists and
>frigates.
>
>Has anyone won not playing Portugal? And playing at Monarch?

It isn't bad with any of the Europeans, at Monarch. Just get some
useful treasure making cities out there and bring the loot home. You
do need to deal with wars, but negotiations and alliances can help
with that.

I do think that it is a fairly easy scenario. All of the Conquests,
though, I think are rather easy if you play on Regent. Monarch is a
better challenge. Higher levels of course are tougher, but the game
rules change so much that it feels very different.
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Yes, this conquest is easy at the Monarch level. I won it easily as the
Aztecs. I didn't even enter that 3rd age until right before I won. I
founded 2 cities early on and then put my capital to work buidling
wonders and the other 2 cities to building vetran UUs as defense.

(I gave in to every single demand a European civ made and stayed out of
wars with Europe.
I got my GA when the Mayas were dumb enough to demand something from me
and I refused. This also resulted in a significant downsizing of the
Mayas empire. Increadiably the Incans were dumb enough to declare war a
second time, and this time I exiled them to that lone South American
city they had founded past the Incas.
Oh, I also moved up my victory several turns by buying workers whenever
the AI was dumb enough to offer them and immedately sacrifiing them in
my capital.)

In fact, in all but one conquest, for the first time through, the best
challenge is playing one level above what you normally play the epic.
Exception is Rise of Rome. Best to play that one the first time at your
normal epic level.

The AI doesn't know how to play the Dutch at all on the Monrach level,
the French AI annexed two of their cities in Europe, leaving it down to
just Amsterdam there.
The Protogual & Spainish positions are easyist for the AI.