Cool game! I don’t understand how you’re going to win AP but looking forward to learning something new. When you started stacking defensively vs Toku I was surprised you didn’t go with Machine Guns to put a bigger dent in his initial attack. Seems like this was their time to shine vs Infantry, Cannons, Cavs and you’d save some hammers.
@@ItsJussCrypto Thanks! The honest answer is that I can’t remember why I didn’t build MGs but I probably didn’t think about it! I think what I was really doing was building an army to cap AC and unscientifically leaving some units behind to defend against Toku if he attacked while I was still at war with Rome. Retrofitting an explanation, it’s not clear to me that machine guns would have been better. Churchill is protective so I assume the infantry I was building were promoted to city garrison 3 and drill 1 or the inverse. That compares with drill 2 machine guns. City garrison 3 gives you +75% city defence which, combined with the higher base strength, is probably better than the first strikes from drill promotions and the MG’s base first strike and the +50% against gunpowder units. The fact that the MGs wouldn’t have taken collateral damage would have had to do a fair bit of work for them to have faired better. Maybe immunity to collateral damage would have meant they were a better choice. Again the honest answer is that I don’t know and you may be right. I’ve not got a lot of experience of defending because it’s rarely a good idea so I try not to practice it! I suspect I just needed more units to defend and my units were doing something more useful in Roman territory. AP victory would basically mean capping everybody I could and converting as many of my vassals’ cities to Hinduism as I could and then, probably, forcing them all out of Hinduism so only I could be elected pope. Then everybody except Giggles, SB and potentially Rome - depending on whether I could cap him - would vote for me. That should be enough because they’d have more Hindu pop than the civs I hadn’t capped. It’s a cheap way to win because it’s like diplo but you don’t need to be liked by the civs representing the bull of the world’s pop. This wouldn’t be the cheapest AP win because at least Hinduism was well spread. You can win very cheesy AP victories with a religion that has barely spread.
@ ahh right I don’t think I’ll ever be able to remember machine guns arent gunpowder units 🤣 I was thinking once Giggles built UN it’d obsolete AP but I guess since you control it it’ll stay relevant until you tech Mass Media? I never really thought about that tbh it makes sense. I’ve never won a late AP with no allies have watched a few more episodes but not to the end yet so I’ll have to see how it turns out
Cool game! I don’t understand how you’re going to win AP but looking forward to learning something new.
When you started stacking defensively vs Toku I was surprised you didn’t go with Machine Guns to put a bigger dent in his initial attack. Seems like this was their time to shine vs Infantry, Cannons, Cavs and you’d save some hammers.
@@ItsJussCrypto Thanks! The honest answer is that I can’t remember why I didn’t build MGs but I probably didn’t think about it! I think what I was really doing was building an army to cap AC and unscientifically leaving some units behind to defend against Toku if he attacked while I was still at war with Rome.
Retrofitting an explanation, it’s not clear to me that machine guns would have been better. Churchill is protective so I assume the infantry I was building were promoted to city garrison 3 and drill 1 or the inverse. That compares with drill 2 machine guns. City garrison 3 gives you +75% city defence which, combined with the higher base strength, is probably better than the first strikes from drill promotions and the MG’s base first strike and the +50% against gunpowder units. The fact that the MGs wouldn’t have taken collateral damage would have had to do a fair bit of work for them to have faired better. Maybe immunity to collateral damage would have meant they were a better choice. Again the honest answer is that I don’t know and you may be right. I’ve not got a lot of experience of defending because it’s rarely a good idea so I try not to practice it! I suspect I just needed more units to defend and my units were doing something more useful in Roman territory.
AP victory would basically mean capping everybody I could and converting as many of my vassals’ cities to Hinduism as I could and then, probably, forcing them all out of Hinduism so only I could be elected pope. Then everybody except Giggles, SB and potentially Rome - depending on whether I could cap him - would vote for me. That should be enough because they’d have more Hindu pop than the civs I hadn’t capped. It’s a cheap way to win because it’s like diplo but you don’t need to be liked by the civs representing the bull of the world’s pop. This wouldn’t be the cheapest AP win because at least Hinduism was well spread. You can win very cheesy AP victories with a religion that has barely spread.
@ ahh right I don’t think I’ll ever be able to remember machine guns arent gunpowder units 🤣
I was thinking once Giggles built UN it’d obsolete AP but I guess since you control it it’ll stay relevant until you tech Mass Media? I never really thought about that tbh it makes sense. I’ve never won a late AP with no allies have watched a few more episodes but not to the end yet so I’ll have to see how it turns out