Again I have had a very positive experience with Civilization 4. I have been playing the same game for a while, and I have 10 million souls in my country! I have the highest score pointswise, and I have three of the top 5 cities for culture. I have alot of world wonders as well as famous people in my cities. The other countries do not have as advanced technology or military; also I have the richest country. I was on good terms with everybody; life was looking up for my citizens.
I decided it was time to declare war.
Not on just anyone, mind you, but on my neighbors. Up to that point, we had relatively good relations, especially when I moved to free religion as I could no longer be viewed as a pagan. However, my neighbor was weak... and I wanted his land and resources.
So I developed a mildly organized strategy. I began to build up my military in the cities with the fastest production rate. My slowest cities (production wise) I still concentrated on culture. For example, I built musketmen in 3 of the cities where it only took 4 or 5 turns. In the cities that would take longer than that, I had build world wonders or libraries or national epics, etc. That way, I was not neglecting culture or science, and my people were still pretty happy.
Most importantly, I strengthened my relations with other leaders through various trades and such. When the United States went to war with Iraq, the first thing they did was to make sure they had a backup posse- Britain, China, etc. When World War 1 began, everybody claimed sides. Ditto for the second. In the Cold War, we clung to our allies to appear stronger than Russia. Clearly there is something to being good friends with everyone.
I began to move my military to the cities closest to the border we shared. Soon I had gathered enough. The day was ripe for strife. I declared WAR! on my neighbor, suprising him I imagine, and began to move my people to take over his cities.
It was complete domination. While I had some frustrating battles watching my musketman get clubbed or piked or evil eyed, overall I decimated his land. I say decimate, but in reality I did not destroy any of his farms, pastures, or towns. I wanted to take over the country, so it made little sense to me to destroy its assets and then have to rebuild those later. Perhaps if I had to take over a more advanced civilization, I would take out factories and such. However, in this case, I just took over everything.
When I had about 2 cities left to conquer, their leader approached me for a peace treaty. as if.
My success was complete. It could be compared to when Hitler and his Nazis took over Poland seamlessly and easily. Not that we're Germans or anything. The time is coming where we might declare war again, but right now I am focusing on building up my assets and developing my new cities!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
I absolutely love your strategy! Currently I am building my army, strengthening my city, and maintaining my allies. At any time I want to strike, but you're right to be patient and finally desolate everything. When the timing is right, I know I'll be following in the typical world war game plan: build, grow, organize, and desamate!
Don't you love how easy it is to be successful at the game so long as you follow history?
But there is one thing that you have to wonder... what will you do when everything is captured? Game over and then what? Start over.
I don't know about you but I think I'll be a little sad to see it be all over and restart from stratch. Maybe that's why I'm lagging behind lol.
At any rate, best of luck and hopefully you'll be more successful (let alone more civil) then the Germans in WWII.
How I wish my civ were in as good as shape as yours...I have the Americans to the north telling me to pay up some gold or else they will crush me, the Egyptians are being stingy when it comes to trading, and all of Europe is one big red Roman blob on the world map...One leader even commented to me that my civ was "cute", which pissed me off so I declared war on him...Three minutes later and I found myself clicking the load previous game button. I just don't have the good neighbor relationships that you have, but trust me, making friends with the Romans is first on my "to do" list.
Post a Comment