Desper_Taferro
Nov 22, 2005, 05:01 AM
Anyone who has started the Earth scenario playing the romans should have noticed how critical is to build new cities fast, as the Germans in the north and the greeks in the east will soon be blocking your movements.
My first plan was to keep the "France" and "Spain" areas controlled (i mean the place in the map where the actual countries should be), so i built Lutetia and Tarraco. I soon noticed that the germans have way too much advantage in that map, because they have free territories to expand from their starting position to Mongolia, so it seemed they would be leading the early game.
Just entering the classical era i tried to expand east and built Mediolanum north-east from Athens. While exploring the seas i found i could control the mediterranean just by building a couple of cities in the african north coast; this would also keep the egyptians away from the easy to invade southern spanish coast.
Well... That was the scenario near the middle ages when hell broke loose... The germans tried to get a passage to the mediterranean and they builded Colonia in a small spot between Rome and Mediolanum. That menaced to divide my empire isolating the still little Mediolanum. In a blitzkrieg-like offensive a nice stack of praetorians ,archers and catapults, captured Colonia in two turns, while Lutetia suffered some feeble attacks from Berlin.
(Oh, by the way, it is obvious the Alps give a nice protection to Rome if you build a couple of forts on both sides of the mountains).
After capturing Colonia i was thinking whether march over Berlin or not. I was not interested in a large war in those times and i reached my objective, to prevent Colonia from dividing my empire.
Besides, the greeks where at war with the persians, and Athens would be a nice milestone for my Mediterranean domination. So i signed peace with Bismark and declared war on Alexander. Athens was roman a few turns later and the persians finished the greeks some time after that.
Now there was not much place to expand in the old world but the british isles, Britannia, Hibernia and Caledonia where built soon, yet the germans where still leading the game due the big, free, resource-filled, eastern europe.
Now żIs this a cheat? I know America is out there, the other civs don't. As a veteran civ player i know how much advantage had the american player (specially in Civ2), as it is difficcult to invade and there are a lot of pleasant terrain to work. Then this was my new objective, exploring the new world.
Now this is a whole new game, my old cities create more and more culture and north america has become my new playground, bulding new colonies and fighting old barbarians.
As it happened with the americans in old civ games the settlers of america have grown in large numbers (there are several size 7 barbarian cities there with nice rich big towns around) so conquering america in this game reminds me of the spanish colonization.
Let me finish, after that, THIS IS THE BEST CIV GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED (well, since my first absolute conquest victory in Civ2 i've never enjoyed that much fighting for america).
Phew! :king:
My first plan was to keep the "France" and "Spain" areas controlled (i mean the place in the map where the actual countries should be), so i built Lutetia and Tarraco. I soon noticed that the germans have way too much advantage in that map, because they have free territories to expand from their starting position to Mongolia, so it seemed they would be leading the early game.
Just entering the classical era i tried to expand east and built Mediolanum north-east from Athens. While exploring the seas i found i could control the mediterranean just by building a couple of cities in the african north coast; this would also keep the egyptians away from the easy to invade southern spanish coast.
Well... That was the scenario near the middle ages when hell broke loose... The germans tried to get a passage to the mediterranean and they builded Colonia in a small spot between Rome and Mediolanum. That menaced to divide my empire isolating the still little Mediolanum. In a blitzkrieg-like offensive a nice stack of praetorians ,archers and catapults, captured Colonia in two turns, while Lutetia suffered some feeble attacks from Berlin.
(Oh, by the way, it is obvious the Alps give a nice protection to Rome if you build a couple of forts on both sides of the mountains).
After capturing Colonia i was thinking whether march over Berlin or not. I was not interested in a large war in those times and i reached my objective, to prevent Colonia from dividing my empire.
Besides, the greeks where at war with the persians, and Athens would be a nice milestone for my Mediterranean domination. So i signed peace with Bismark and declared war on Alexander. Athens was roman a few turns later and the persians finished the greeks some time after that.
Now there was not much place to expand in the old world but the british isles, Britannia, Hibernia and Caledonia where built soon, yet the germans where still leading the game due the big, free, resource-filled, eastern europe.
Now żIs this a cheat? I know America is out there, the other civs don't. As a veteran civ player i know how much advantage had the american player (specially in Civ2), as it is difficcult to invade and there are a lot of pleasant terrain to work. Then this was my new objective, exploring the new world.
Now this is a whole new game, my old cities create more and more culture and north america has become my new playground, bulding new colonies and fighting old barbarians.
As it happened with the americans in old civ games the settlers of america have grown in large numbers (there are several size 7 barbarian cities there with nice rich big towns around) so conquering america in this game reminds me of the spanish colonization.
Let me finish, after that, THIS IS THE BEST CIV GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED (well, since my first absolute conquest victory in Civ2 i've never enjoyed that much fighting for america).
Phew! :king: