Now the match is over, with me winning, i want to tell you everything, rather than what I could say.
My plot for a while was to build a wonder. My main idea was to fool Manus into thinking I was trying to occupy him while my one relic got me gold. Via selling my wood and food I got the gold and stone I need to wall off a space for it. The space was also made out of reclaimed forest. My army of bombards, trebs, champions, missionaries and conquistadores defended it. I also found a use for the villagers - they are, for the spanish with supremacy, the ultimate trash unit. Plus the psychological effect of having the gate which I had been sending my trash army (my aim wasnt to leech his gold, he had 4 relics) against for a considerable time destroyed by my villagers was probably more effective. He did indeed try to cut me, the first was spotted when i tailed a villager, the second arrived too late for my wonder victory, but could well have caused havoc against my forward defences. The disadvantage of the black forest maps are that, in 1v1, they often leave it so that you are bottlenecked once or even twice. In ours, we had both sealed off bottlenecks (mines with bombard towers, his with Keeps and Castles) leaving no mans land in between. There was little outright confrontation in this game, unlike the mass battles we had during our first match, and Manus is downright furious that I used a wonder.
*phew*. I have terrible aging times, generally, so i dont stand much hope against more experienced players. But I would love to try you, even if it wouldnt last past castle age.
EDIT: Manus is just fed up because he thought he set the game to conquest only and therefore didnt act til it was already up.
Hartman, any time.
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