Weird game

flash9286 · October 13, 2002, 12:04

i just started a new game i want somebody to play it with me. Trust me its weird there are a chain of islands conecting all the contients which provides with intersinting gameplay. If you do play it please provide your strategy and screenshots or post the save thanks.

Sheik · October 13, 2002, 12:18

can you post a screenshot of the start location?

nbarclay · October 13, 2002, 12:19

It would be useful if you said what level your game is on. Different people are interested in playing at different difficulty levels.

Nathan

flash9286 · October 13, 2002, 12:35

regent
standard size
perisans
respawn off
no barbs

flash9286 · October 13, 2002, 12:53

here the starting position

flash9286 · October 13, 2002, 17:53

there was a spearman their before
i guess they gave up

Theseus · October 14, 2002, 01:42

For a 'weird' game, you seem to own the situation.

Cathy pisses me off... take her out.

flash9286 · October 14, 2002, 07:20

cathy not in the game its england and i about to conquer england i will post a screenshot.

vmxa1 · October 14, 2002, 13:57

Is not Catherine the representtion for England?

SanPellegrino · October 14, 2002, 14:09

Quote:

Originally posted by vmxa1
Is not Catherine the representtion for England?

It's not Cathy, but beautiful Lizzy

punkbass2000 · October 14, 2002, 14:35

Cathy rules Russia.

vmxa1 · October 14, 2002, 16:01

Ok, I got now, I don't play either, but it makes sense Queen Liz and Cathy the Great. Probably forget it soon.

Meldor · October 14, 2002, 16:28

The disappering spear is probably due to the fact that it shows the strongest defensive unit available. If the spear is damaged below the defensive level of a ship in port it will not show the spear because it is lower and it won't show the ship, because it can't defend a city. I have seen this numerous times. Once you attack, the spear will re-appear.

flash9286 · October 14, 2002, 17:40

Die everybody

got alliance with French againest Iraqouis and China

.Killed England and Aztecs

going for the Iraqoius

sabrewolf · October 14, 2002, 19:04

sorry, i didn't really get, what's so wierd about this game?
can someone explain?

Theseus · October 14, 2002, 19:05

Sorry for the confusion on female monarchs... my bad. You went after the b-tch anyway.

flash9286 · October 14, 2002, 20:08

i just thought it was weird that all the civs could be connected by map making

flash9286 · October 14, 2002, 22:03

this is my biggest military yet have any of you had bigger miltarys post a screenshot or tell please.btw i also have 10 armeies below.

Theseus · October 15, 2002, 00:59

flash, I did a poll once about the size of people's military... you'd be shocked!!

I personally think you've got a heck of a lot of units. Some people get up to 500-600. The most extreme I've ever gotten to was about 250 MA... it feels weird, btw, you become a mad unstoppable warmonger.

sabrewolf · October 15, 2002, 04:11

theseus: those 250 MAs where in our strategy-god's (aeson) "so very cold (of the map generator)"-thread. but it was a huge map... flash's army is quite impressive for a standard size map allthough i think a lot more is possible (more money through: sell techs&resources for gpt, lower tech rate, blackmail oponents, etc.)

flash9286 · October 15, 2002, 07:12

i could get more i havent even got to ma yet

flash9286 · October 15, 2002, 17:59

i won by domation didnt get to ma, i think my score was around 3000

Jaguar · October 16, 2002, 22:03

I refuse to play this game on the grounds that it is not weird enough.

BTW, how is this for a military? I attempted to win a deity game entirely without horses, drafting, or armored units (no mech infs.) I was almost done but I accidentally deleted the game. The picture remains though, as a souvenir.

I tried to kill everybody before mech infantry become widely used. 6 attack is the best I could get.

There was one civ my size left, but I was pulling it out by basically putting an infantry on every square they owned and pillaging. I was out infantry-ing them when I got bored.

they had 300 Riflemen at the time I took this screenshot

(I got their rubber and parked 20 infantries there.)

vmxa1 · October 16, 2002, 23:13

Now that is what I call a lot of micromanaging. I have never see so many infantry units.

Jaguar · October 16, 2002, 23:21

I would never play that game out without wake all, fortify all, and the j key.

Theseus · October 17, 2002, 01:09

JW,

I've been thinking of this lately, totally aggressive use of defensive units. Were you pillaging, or just occupying? What did the AI civs do? How many units per attack / pillage team? Did you include Arty? Did the AI civ even attack the rubber stack? Did you have any Armies involved? Given that many Infantry... god, I don't even know what to ask!! I'm assuming no Tanks yet.

Very cool.

Gen.Dragolen · October 18, 2002, 13:36

Theseus,

I've been playing a round with the Iroquois and have found their Mounted Warriors are even nastier than Vel's Jaguar Warriors.

I lucked out and found some horses after building my 3rd city and haven't looked back since. Despite the mobility, I've found that with Cavalry and then tanks, I have to slow the advance to allow Infantry and Artillery to keep pace: I've lost too many tanks to unbelievably successful AI cavalry counter-attacks.

The funny thing is that the AI Civ will walk past stacks in the front line that are supported by Infantry to go after damaged units. Not that I mind, since they either take 1 hp from a fortified unit or they won't have movement left to attack. Just makes them easy pickings for the my forces the next turn.

This also means that I have to keep quite a few workers building roads and rail lines to newly conquered cities just to keep the infantry moving with the tanks and cavalry...

And as for being agressive with defending units, mentally picture a moving wave of infantry units moving across the map, with tanks and cavalry lashing out to destroy enemy strong points. Each turn they advance and there is no stopping them because when one falls, two more take it's place....

Like the sargeant's said: you need a man on the ground with a rifle in his hands to say you own that piece of ground.

D.

Theseus · October 18, 2002, 18:51

General D, I'm about to try that this weekend in AU 107...

I've been thinking about it a lot; sorta like RL combined ground arms, don;t you think? Along with maneuver warfare to take care of outliers... funnel the enemy onto a killing ground.

Jaguar · October 19, 2002, 14:58

Well I kinda had about 50 units to attack each city, but most of em just moved on. I had a sort of moving wall going.

I did not build any tanks or MAs or even mech infantry. I was just messing around with infantry. By the time of that screenshot, the AIs had tech for the good stuff but none of them could build them because they had giant infantry stacks on all their resources.

Think about facing a giant infantry wall in an MP game pre-tank. There would be nothing you could do, and they would happily pillage everything until you could make a wall to stop them. You couldn't reinforce the cities behind the wall, which would fall to cavalry, and you couldn't break through the wall because of the lack of a good attacker.

Now imagine being an AI and facing this.

They mostly hole up in their cities because they only go for easy fights. They see a huge stack coming, so they build defensive units and don't attack (except sometimes if you take places with resources.) Meanwhile every road gets pillaged, so they end up with these starving cities with 4 infantry and 10 riflemen. Then the upkeep gets to them, and they start losing units simply because they aren't producing any gold. (No roads) So then they lose all the riflemen.

However by the end I just kind of attacked with giant hoards because there wasn't any reason to besiege cities that I could take easily.