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Post by Quintus Fabius on Sept 26, 2016 22:55:53 GMT
Excellent advice, everyone, and thanks for your responses. By flicking at random through various threads I've picked up a whole lot of info about this game that was a mystery to me before, but I have a bunch of other questions to ask. However, I will probably start another thread for these so that other newbies like me can find the answers easily, and I will also wait a while to see if I can answer them via playing the game. Certainly it pays as a newcomer to play as a nation which has at least one trading city. Make sure to always trade with high trade stars!  |
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Post by pathdoc on Sept 29, 2016 15:18:41 GMT
Make sure to always trade with high trade stars! Hee hee... Current conquest game I am playing as Russia, I got Alexander I - five star trade general! He has gone to my trade city, and barring major disasters that require his evacuation, he will be staying there for the duration of the war.  |
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Post by pathdoc on Oct 15, 2016 10:26:19 GMT
Aaaaaand.... did it! 90 turns in 1798 Europe as Russia.
It helps to have the right allies in the right places at the right time. Also I sort of stole some people's cities and annoyed them a bit (pushed Sweden from friend to neutral, came close to doing the same with England and one of the German states).
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Post by pathdoc on Oct 18, 2016 11:04:03 GMT
ALMOST made it for the second time (1806 Russia). Just five more turns and I would have done it, but unlike the last game there were too many enemies in all the wrong places, and my allies kept getting in the way. Oh well, I got 100 medals out of it, so it wasn't a complete waste.
Now playing as Russia 1809, and had to take Alexander I into south-eastern Finland at the start of the game. As a chess player, it's psychologically against the grain to risk your king (even though the rules are different here), but unlike the chess king, he packs quite a punch! The map is a solid sea of blue (and I am red!!), and I suspect the best thing to do here is to turn this into a grinding game.
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Post by pathdoc on Nov 17, 2016 11:55:10 GMT
Woo-hoo! 69 turns as HRE 1798 and I picked up Sophia.  Now I just have to grind, grind, grind and get her into some sort of fighting shape.  |
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