18-09-2003 04:11									#1
	Egyptian One City Raiding Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations

With this strategy you'll stay with one city to build some unique Horse Archers (Mil 2/Classical req'd). While you're raiding your opponent you'll expand aggressively. Start with Science then Commerce, and get your resources maxed, Egypt can just about reach the +100 commerce cap with one city, easily on maps with lots of timber. Focus on your food production first, it is the limiting factor. Build a market and merchants while building up your food stocks.

After you reach the +100 cap you'll research military 1 and 2, and then classical age. Immediately build a stable and use the bonus Egyptian wealth to create 2-3 of their unique Horse Archers. Send them out to raid. Then make a university and Mine.

You will have saved food during this time, research civics 1. Use the citizen that built your stable on the border to found your second city. Expand your economy aggressively. You can continue to make horse archers, though your opponent will surely have defenses for them by now. I would suggest planning for a full scale assault in gunpowder or later.

With aggressive raiding, you can also implement an all out border push strategy. Your opponent will be busy rebuilding his current cities, and will usually fall behind in territory expansion. He will most likely expect more horse archer raiding (building towers/light cav), take this opportunity to back him into a corner with cities/temples and forts.

This is a fun strat that takes a good amount of micro, but I like the idea of using an Egyptian "super-city" to good effect.

	18-09-2003 20:11									#2
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aggressive strategies like this are obviously good against one single opponent. Most of these concepts fail in games with 8 parties.
So it is obviously a multiplayer strategy.
However, it is a good idea to keep the opponent busy with random attacks, just to disturb his (her ) micro.

	25-09-2003 11:17									#3
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I tried this in multiplayer for the first time tonight. It was on Atlantic Sea Power, and I think this strat might be best on water maps since youre already going Sci, Comm. This was my first attempt at some serious horse archer raiding in multiplayer. Man when you hit someone before they have a stable, it's wicked.

After the HA raiding, I made some light ships for fishing raids, then back to horse archer raids. I secured the coastline with forts/cities (and a few obs towers) then made an overwhelming navy. I destroyed his fishing, then his docks then everything else in range of bomb ketches. A large land invasion followed in Modern Age. A fun game really.

	26-09-2003 07:32									#4
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This would be much more interesting if you actually posted games...

	26-09-2003 11:02									#5
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The games using this strat weren't close, and wouldnt be very interesting to watch. When I play a close one I'll post it.

	14-10-2003 02:12									#6
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It looks fine and smart, I tried last night but I didnīt find the unique Archer Horses in the stable, what I found was light cavalry in camels. What is wrong? What I missed?

	14-10-2003 02:13									#7
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It looks fine and smart, I tried last night but I didnīt find the unique Horse Archers in the stable, what I found was light cavalry in camels. What is wrong? What I missed?

	14-10-2003 03:27									#8
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Hm, did you research Military 2? It should cost 100 food, 100 metal- exactly how much you get upon researching classical age. Egyptian two city raiding is probably more effective overall, but this strat hits a bit faster.

	20-10-2003 11:30									#9
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One city raiding by twc_shadowz:

http://www.mrfixitonline.com/Librar...r=&FileId=73349