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Darkman124 posted...

if babylon starts next to india, it can easily crush it. continents is probably babylon's strongest mapstyle since it can easily clear its starting continent with bowmen, and only having to deal with 2-3 hostiles at most means babylon can destroy one, then wall up and last through its 'tech only' period until it emerges in the industrial era.

edit since i ran out of edits: 'can easily clear at least one of the opponents on its starting continent with bowmen'

depending on the situation (ie soft neighbors, or neighbors like zulu that must die) bowmen can be made to be viable for longer by making sacrifices like delaying universities or not building chichen itza.
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