Games like this are why I like Civ III

MosesPresley · May 8, 2002, 19:31

My latest game I am the Iroquois, regent level, continents-middle setting, temperate, and 4 billion YO.

I started on a large upside-down U shaped continent. I have the eastern leg. The Romans have the western leg and the Aztecs have the north. I sent my first scout and warrior north and ran into the Aztecs when they still had only two cities. I traded technologies and declared war.

I destroyed one of their cities and sued for peace, since I did not have the necessary manpower in the area. This made them furious, of course. Around 500 BC, the Aztecs and the Romans formed an alliance against me.

I successfully fended them off and they sued for peace.

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My only wonder is the Hanging Gardens. My neighbors have communications with the rest of the world, which I am slowly discovering.

Since I am trying to fend off two civs, clear a massive jungle, (rubber later!) and maintain a decent infrastructure, I am half an age behind in technology. My only strategic resource is iron only just recently connected. I have access to horses on an island, but a sea is between us, so I won't be seeing my unique units or knights until Astronomy. I keep telling my scientists I want telescopes, but they keep bringing me hollowed out sticks with leaves over the ends.

It is currently around 900 AD and I am running a monarchy. I have just discovered Feudalism and we are sluggishly researching Chivalry. No one will trade with me for anything less than a ransom of my entire treasury and most of my GP per turn.

Now this is why I like the game: Even though the enemy has superior troops: knights vs. my catapults and spearmen, slowly upgrading to pikemen and swordsmen, I have successfully held the barbarian civs at bay. I lost one of my cities, but I was able to recapture it. Now my superior culture, due to my many temples, is starting to culture-flip their stray cities. I thought when the two civs ganged up on me that the game was over, but if things keep going the way they are, it will be a long uphill battle, but eventually I will drive the Aztecs into the ocean. They never fully recovered from that original war. I am resource poor, but if I can survive until Industrialism, the continent will be my mine and then the world!

Cue the national anthem.

Jon Shafer · May 8, 2002, 21:02

That's why Civ games are cool.

I started a nifty game recently where I was in between 2 mountain ranges (and the other civs couldn't get through the mountains to settle my fertile valley... suckers

). I don't know where I'm at thought, haven't checked lately, I've been too busy studying for tests and whatnot.

Tuberski · May 8, 2002, 21:14

My last game on Warloed level was memorable, I had no saltpeter, iron, aluminum. the best unit I could build for a LONG time was knights.

And yet I won.

It ended my playing on Warlord level, if I can win easily with those difficulties, then that level is to easy.

When I get a game like that on Regent and win, I'll move up again.

MosesPresley · May 8, 2002, 22:28

I'm not ready to move up to Monarch yet. The last time I did, I got my butt trounced. After I can figure out a consistent winning strategy for Regent, then I'll be movin' on up, to the east side, just like the Jeffersons.

Jon Shafer · May 8, 2002, 22:34

I always play on Monarch now, but I never finish my games anymore. They're just not satisfying later on, and I feel the need to start a new one. So I do. So I have maybe 50 games I've started but never finished at various time periods.

Grrr · May 9, 2002, 00:27

These are the kind of challenges that make the game fun.

Redstar · May 9, 2002, 01:26

the sad thing is..you will be toast and have wasted all this time when you could be playing a new game

I-iZ-1337 · May 9, 2002, 04:11

Quote:

Originally posted by Tuberski
My last game on Warloed level was memorable, I had no saltpeter, iron, aluminum. the best unit I could build for a LONG time was knights.

And yet I won.

It ended my playing on Warlord level, if I can win easily with those difficulties, then that level is to easy.

When I get a game like that on Regent and win, I'll move up again.

J00 shud go straightz to deit33 and j00ze sum 1337 stratz like the onez I pozted on the stratz forumz.