Why Turtle

[Askthepizzaguy]

The answer is obvious. You must cook the pizza over a bonfire, fuelled by the carcass of the infidel, you must cut the pizza with your ceremonial assassin's blade, which you just used to kill the Pope, and you must season the pizza with the blood of weeping women and the eyes of little peasant children.

Then, you have a full-fledged pizza my friends.



EDIT: Eat the pizza with your blood-soaked hands, of course.

[Old Geezer]

Mmmm. Pizza. One of the best pizzas ever was the pepperoni one from Pizza Hut that we reheated in a cardboard oven (box lined with aluminum foil) when we backpacked (a whole mile) into Wheeler Geologic are in Colorado. Now that's one thing that is even better than destroying the Timurids with peasants.

[FactionHeir]

Guys, please get back on topic, eh?

[oz_wwjd]

I doubt it's possible to defeat the Timurids with peasants,said peasants would run at the sight of the giant pachyderms which they field. On the Blitzing topic, What happens when say, a turkish blitz meets the mongols,as they can be lethal in field battles...

[PBI]

I think a really flat-out blitz is supposed to be complete long before the Mongols arrive. Otherwise the expansion is probably slow enough to prepare a defense against the Mongols.

[Quintus.JC]

I doubt it's possible to defeat the Timurids with peasants,said peasants would run at the sight of the giant pachyderms which they field. On the Blitzing topic, What happens when say, a turkish blitz meets the mongols,as they can be lethal in field battles...

The Mongols arrives in the 13th century. A blitz would normally take no more than 60 years to complete, or else it wouldn't be called a blitz.

[Mount Suribachi]

I'm an old school TWer. I consider Blitzing to be the TW equivalent of playing FIFA on "easy" with all the cheats, and then going "look, I won 88-0!"

I play with my own set of Iron Man rules - never break an alliance, always go to an allies aid, no reloads etc.

As for the Blitzkrieg itself - that can still be done. Indeed, part of the fun of turtling is to suddenly unleash an all-powerful army on the enemy and lay waste to their lands before they know whats happening . Took me forever though playing as Bactria to win my RTRPE game - I promised myself Rome would be the last settlement I took to win the game and capture my last objective and 50th settlement. I furthermore promised myself I would do it with elephants in my army. Do you have any idea how long it takes to get Elephants from India to Rome...?

[Ferret]

The Mongols arrives in the 13th century. A blitz would normally take no more than 60 years to complete, or else it wouldn't be called a blitz.

And by the time the Mongols arrived you'd have had the whole income of the map to pour into armies, the Mongols wouldn't stand a chance...

And MS, ATPG did his blitz under those rules I think, you don't need allies in this game, it's easy to take everyone on at once, no matter the difficulty, that's why hotseats rule

[Askthepizzaguy]

I love the name dropping, Elite Ferret. Keep up the good work!

[Mount Suribachi]

And by the time the Mongols arrived you'd have had the whole income of the map to pour into armies, the Mongols wouldn't stand a chance...

And MS, ATPG did his blitz under those rules I think, you don't need allies in this game, it's easy to take everyone on at once, no matter the difficulty, that's why hotseats rule

Well, I didn't list all my rules - others include don't attack neutral factions without good reason (eg crusade called, at war with an ally), don't attack Rebel faction without good reason (eg given a mission). If the Diplomacy AI was a bit cleverer I'd conclude a ceasefire with an enemy as well rather than have to annihilate them