WARNING: this will sound somewhat insane, and is meant for 3v3 or 4v4 mediterranean or continental ONLY.
Ok, so here goes:
1. Tool asap. it's possible to tool in 7:00 with any civ if you stop making villies at 12. (Yes, I know that's a crappy economy but it's the fastest way to tool)
2. While tooling, send 2 guys to build docks and put everyone else on wood. I mean everyone, take them off berries and whatever. Maybe keep 1 guy to make houses for the fishing boats you make while tooling.
3. As soon as you reach tool, start making scout ships as fast as you can, and send them out right away to find the enemy docks and fishing fleets.
4. Send any new scout ships to the enemy, as soon as you make them. With the ultra-fast tool and the greek warboat speed, and by optimizing for warboats, you should be able to have 2-3 warboats at each enemy dock before they even reach tool. That means you'll have about 3 warboats shooting at any new warboat that comes out, and shooting up your enemy's precious fishing fleet while you wait, wasting tons of your enemy's wood.
5. Once the enemy docks are gone and you have 20-30 scout ships patrolling the shores, you can go bronze knowing you secured the seas for your allies. Good job.
What do you guys think? Is this insane enough to have a chance of working?
btw, I chose greek for this because of their warboat speed. No other civ could get to the enemy fishing fleets earlier, and get all those free shots.
Ok, so here goes:
1. Tool asap. it's possible to tool in 7:00 with any civ if you stop making villies at 12. (Yes, I know that's a crappy economy but it's the fastest way to tool)
2. While tooling, send 2 guys to build docks and put everyone else on wood. I mean everyone, take them off berries and whatever. Maybe keep 1 guy to make houses for the fishing boats you make while tooling.
3. As soon as you reach tool, start making scout ships as fast as you can, and send them out right away to find the enemy docks and fishing fleets.
4. Send any new scout ships to the enemy, as soon as you make them. With the ultra-fast tool and the greek warboat speed, and by optimizing for warboats, you should be able to have 2-3 warboats at each enemy dock before they even reach tool. That means you'll have about 3 warboats shooting at any new warboat that comes out, and shooting up your enemy's precious fishing fleet while you wait, wasting tons of your enemy's wood.
5. Once the enemy docks are gone and you have 20-30 scout ships patrolling the shores, you can go bronze knowing you secured the seas for your allies. Good job.
What do you guys think? Is this insane enough to have a chance of working?
btw, I chose greek for this because of their warboat speed. No other civ could get to the enemy fishing fleets earlier, and get all those free shots.