Ok it's been 24 hours later, and I am pretty positive I am gonna to have my first deity vic.
With the powerful aztec, I focus on conquering early game instead of building my own cities. My first conquer comes at 2100 BC. After that I build 1 new city mainly to cut down cost on army, and to acquire 4 silks in that square
. Then I trade one silk for iron working and it's all cool after that
.
My stra at that time is to overlook science at all, since swordman + jaguar are good enough to conquer an ancient enemy. Later I traded horsebackriding, my army is pretty invincible. I think I get very lucky again, since I get my first leader around 1300BC, then build an army. And I then get 2 MORE LEADERS in a row! one of the leader build a sweet sweet forbidden city in the conquered enemy capital
. And the other build the sistine Chapel!!!
I get to monarchy around 500BC. I planned to switch to republic, but the war really drags on(mainly due to my stupidity, notes later), so I end up goto democracy directly around 400AD, when I finally destroied that enemy. Wow that was a 2500 years of war! And the mighty Aztec finally prevail
Of course, after that, my science still lagging far behind. But with a switch to demo and build lib& univ. in most cities, science really takes off. The only problem, though, is that seems there is a hard cap of 4 turns per discovery, no matter what. So, be careful and adjust them, so you can save extra $$$
for now, it's around 700AD, I am 5 turns from steam power. I make peace with everybody, and send them money occasionally. I acquired 7 diff lux items, that really helps my happiness
). my scinece are still a little bit backward, but not much. I also have all the resources, and a good size land mass. (land mass #2, pop and prod all #1. ) I figure I can probablly drive out a tank around 1000 AD...
))
well, it seems that lucky 3 leaders really helped me. But then, who don't need a little bit of luck?
Strange thing though, after I build heroic act(is that the name?), which is supposed to increase the possibility of emerge of leaders, I get exactly no leader at all
( I am wondering is that wonder bugged
Oh one last thing, if you conquered a big part of one enemy, be sure to destroy him. Don't think safe if he only has a size 1 distant city. Because you newly conquered cities can easily defect back to him!!! This happened to me( my stupid, I should know better) and it turns out cities revolt one after another. It really cripples you when one city in the middle revolts, since because the border thing, you can only move 1 space per turn on your enemy's road, hence really drags things. I learned it the hard way that : (1) you better DESTORY enemy FAST. (2) to acheive 1), you better raze some city along the way.
Well, that's about it. I figure I will win it all, or so do I think
who knows, maybe somebody will simply sneak attack me and put me away
. For now I am very diligently working on a "real" version of "great wall", which is a 8-10 long fortifications that blocks one side of my continent
). Don't know if it will work, but I am really bored about all the enemies that take their fights on my backyard. (And you know being such a wussy I dare not even whine a word to them
).
Ok, guys, I guess that's the military way for deity....also I guess probably the easiest way because 1) in ancient age it's really easy to conquer a city --swordman rocks, even archer are pretty good; 2) you get leaders along the way, which are god-given gift in this CIV3. I figure if you get 2 or 3 leaders early in game, it really get the game in your favor
.
I am in a new game already , it's 2100 BC, I just conquered my first enemy city. I have a good size army, 2 vet spearman, 3 (1 elite 2 vet ) archer, 3 elite jags, and rolling to the next city !
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