[sergex]

Lots of players hire Mercs first turn to get a jump on early expansion. If you don't hire them, then your enemy probably will, so it's a strategy to get the mercs first turn no matter what. Otherwise, use all your gold the first 5-10 turns in building armies and cheap research units. Keep bolstering your main conquering force until you have enough to take provinces while taking very light casualties and form up a second army.

By turn 20 or so you should have 2-3 full armies conquering lots of land. At that point you can build masses of priests to drop temples all over and searching up all your sites.

I wouldn't build temples sooner than that unless you see lots of little red candles coming closer and closer to your capital.

[ April 13, 2004, 05:51: Message edited by: sergex ]