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In turn you also increase your production, yielding more hammers to produce units with, and in turn an impossibly large army. However, these increases are more than overcome when you can grow those settlements to yield more than 5% of your science yield, and more. Settling an additional city increases your science costs by 5% per city, and increases your social policy costs as well. This is backwards compared to the view of many players, who see tall as the-name-of-the-game. If your only choice was to play either a wide, sprawling empire, or a tall, small, highly populous one, which would make these four "X"s easier? Although occasionally tall has its necessity and merit, the answer is, far more often than not, wide. These four things are the four "X"s of a 4X strategy game, which Civilization V is considered to be. Fall of Rome Strategy Guides (Deity)īeing a bit addicted to the challenge of winning scenarios with all Civilizations on Deity difficulty, the Fall of Rome scenario posed quite a challenge: While it’s straight forward and easy with some civs, it’s a curse with others.Explore, Expand, Exploit, and Exterminate. We have to make due with the little we have. The bigger empires (the AI!) will always have loads of those, because they’ll have resources in abundance. They also don’t need any resources unlike Longswordsmen or Musketmen or any mounted unit. When the time comes and the economy can support loads of units, I mainly spam these. I always prefer Crossbowman, because they’re no melees and don’t need to move to attack.

The Into the Renaissance scenario is different: Both Pikemen and Crossbowmen will be the backbone of your military until the end. This is both blessing and curse: While more and faster technological research makes warfare more versatile it also means strategy and tactics change frequently, depending on your and your opponents technological level. In normal games of Civilization research and technology play a much bigger role than in this scenario.

Dromons are a blast, while Cataphracts don’t keep their promise.

Legions are great, while Ballistae pretty much suck.

Trihemiolias are amazing, while Axemen are not much stronger than the units they replace.

While the Celts, Franks and Goths have strong melee units, the respective second units of the Vandals and both Roman empires are neglectable: Attila’s unique trait (+movement) makes Battering Rams and Horse Archers deadly mobile in enemy territory. The unique traits of each civilization hugely vary in usefulness: A solid defense to either side is required, but should not distract from the road to Rome (or Constantinople respectively). On the contrary: While playing one Barbarian nation, all neighboring Barbarians will send armies your way, trying to conquer you. So you won’t have the means to take on both Rome and neighboring Barbarians.

The Sassanids overrun Eastern Rome and defend solidly against the Huns.

Eastern Rome falls to the Huns, who also keep the Sassanids in check and score tremendously so that you can’t catch up.

Eastern Rome’s defense stays strong: You can’t catch up with the combined score of both Eastern and Western Rome.

By that time one of three things will have happened, all depending on the Eastern theater (sorted by likelihood): Once you’re finished with them, you’ll run out of time scoring VP against Rome. Yes, they won’t hassle you anymore after they’ve been defeated (which is possible), but you won’t score Victory Points for their cities. I’ve learned this through various failed Deity attempts: Playing as one Barbarian civilization (Celts, Franks, Goths, Vandals), ridding oneself of neighbors does not lead to victory: Compare both games in this guide: Fall of Rome Spec Ops: The Huns Deity Strategy Barbarian Wars of Brothers In the second game resistance was minimal and I overran them.

The biggest difference here, I encountered playing the Huns: In one game I encountered fierce resistance by the Sassanids which I could only overcome by sneak attacking their capital. Because if you’re one unit stronger, the AI might decide to turn it’s army elsewhere. It can determine the outcome of a battle, but also if the battle takes place at all. Building one unit before the enemy builds one (or not) can be a tipping point. I do believe the order of turns plays a huge role. Capture Rome as the Vandals using a boat in the Fall of Rome scenario.įall of Rome Strategy Things you can’t control