Hello,

I've been playing Civ4 for a few months now and have achieved a fairly respectable (for myself) high score of 51k using Caesar to win a domination victory on Noble dueling the AI as Mongolia. Since then, I've been unable to beat that high score or even come close (I think 26k is the next one down). I've tried (and won) on Monarch but only got a score of 14k or so and I'm at a loss. What do I need to be doing to get a higher score or for that matter, does anyone know how the scores are calculated?

Thanks for the input!

Welcome to CFC!

Basically, the quicker the win, the higher the score. If all you want to do is beat your high score, and you're not concerned with how cheesily you do it, Caesar is the one to use.

Choose a small map with few opponents (say, small pangea so everyone is easy to reach). Research BW / Wheel / IW while you're getting your first two cities set up. Go ahead and make a settler for a third city but don't use it until you can see iron. While you're waiting to finish researching IronWorking, chop barracks for your cities. Once you get IW and can see iron, go settle by (or on top of) the iron and get to work connecting your cities so all three have access to iron. Chop a barracks for the third city. If you can, get TWO workers per city instead of the usual one.

Now start chopping Praetorians. Keep chopping Praetorians. Keep chopping. Step outside the fat cross to chop. Step outside your cultural borders to chop. Don't escort the workers. You'll rarely lose one because when they see an animal or barbarian, they'll stop working and ask for orders. Just get them out there and chop everything in sight. Don't stop chopping until your people's language forgets the word for "tree."

Give the first three Praetorians the +10% strength promotion and fortify them in your cities. No one will be able to take your cities. From that point on, give the others the city raider promotion. Send them out in groups of three. Don't capture cities. Raze everything. The money you get from campaigning will pay for the incredible unit upkeep costs you're going to incur. Just pound every neighbor into dust and into history.

Never retreat a Praetorian. Even if it is wounded, advance it until you find a forested area to heal in. You'll turn out enough Praetorians so quickly that you'll conquer the entire map without ever retreating once and without ever using mixed unit types. Don't worry about farms or cottages. The game won't last long enough for you to need them.

I normally play on Prince but if I'm using the Romans I have to bump the difficulty setting up two full notches just to make it a challenge again. Talk about a powerful UU!

hey, huge noob question here, but what do you mean when you say "chop"?

hey, huge noob question here, but what do you mean when you say "chop"?

Wounded Knight's Strategy Guide (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=141825&postcount=#9) covers the basics of chopping. In fact, you might want to scroll up and read the whole guide. It covers a lot of the basic concepts you'll need to master to get the most out of the hand you're dealt in any Civ IV game. If you search the forums, you'll find other in-depth articles on the finer points of chop rushing.

Hello,

I've been playing Civ4 for a few months now and have achieved a fairly respectable (for myself) high score of 51k using Caesar to win a domination victory on Noble dueling the AI as Mongolia. Since then, I've been unable to beat that high score or even come close (I think 26k is the next one down). I've tried (and won) on Monarch but only got a score of 14k or so and I'm at a loss. What do I need to be doing to get a higher score or for that matter, does anyone know how the scores are calculated?

Thanks for the input!

Welcome to CFC!

When it comes to high score, you should visit the HoF forum. Those players that like to hang out at the HOF forum(s) would definitely know how. 51K on Noble dueling is very easy to beat. In fact, it's very easy to score 100K on any level. Just talk to them, I'm sure they can help. Here is the link to them:

http://hof.civfanatics.net/

I've tried (and won) on Monarch but only got a score of 14k or so and I'm at a loss. What do I need to be doing to get a higher score or for that matter, does anyone know how the scores are calculated?


When did you win, BC or AD? You'll have to win early.

Now start chopping Praetorians. Keep chopping Praetorians. Keep chopping. Step outside the fat cross to chop. Step outside your cultural borders to chop. Don't escort the workers. You'll rarely lose one because when they see an animal or barbarian, they'll stop working and ask for orders. Just get them out there and chop everything in sight. Don't stop chopping until your people's language forgets the word for "tree."
:lol: :rotfl:

Are you sure you can chop outside your borders :confused: . I thought you can only build roads there, and those don't remove the trees.

You can definatly chop outside your borders, but not in other civs terretory. You can build roads anywhere your workers can go.

@ OP, the other way to increase your score is "milking" ie. conquer around 65% of the world, get biology, build irrigation everywhere, win the game as your score maxes out.

Yes, you can chop trees outside your borders.
When you are inside someone else's borders, the only thing you can do is build roads.

In my current game I'm caesar as well, and I'm chop (and pop)rushing a lot.
But I tried to chop trees outside the border, but that didn't work. Come to think about it, those were jungle trees. Which tech was it again that enables jungle chopping, and does this also give 30 shie.. hammers ;)

Come to think about it, those were jungle trees. Which tech was it again that enables jungle chopping, and does this also give 30 shie.. hammers ;)
Iron Working. No hammers from jungle, though.

Ok, that's cleared now. :thanx: .

Let's return this thread to the original topic of getting higher scores. My humble apologies for this blatant thread-jacking. ;)