Problems with attaining the Greek Fire achievement

Blanchflower · Aug 21, 2012, 03:39 AM

OK, I am the Byzantium and Greece is my opponent. I am trying to achieve the Greek Fire achievement. This achievement basically says that one has to sink 10 Greek ships. I am playing on the Settler difficulty by the way.

But the problem is, Greece is not producing any ships! What should I do? Should I increase the difficulty level of the game? Please help! Thanks!

Monthar · Aug 21, 2012, 03:42 AM

Play a hotseat game then you can control both civs and just crank out Greek ships for the Dromons burn.

Blanchflower · Aug 21, 2012, 03:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Monthar

Play a hotseat game then you can control both civs and just crank out Greek ships for the Dromons burn.

OK, thanks for the kind reply. So how do I go about doing this?

What does hotseat mean? Does it mean online?

Mesix · Aug 21, 2012, 04:11 AM

Hotseat is a multiplayer option where the human controllerd players all use the same PC. It is different than online. Select multiplayer and then select hotseat. Set up the game so you control both Greece and Byzantium.

If you want to do the achievement in single player, it can take time to wait for Greece to build the required boats for you to sink. I did it using a tiny map where I selected Greece as one opponent and left the others random. I eliminated the other players and whittled Greece down to just Athens remaining. I camped three Dromons outside Athens for the majority of the game and snyped ships every time Alexander decided to build one. Once the achievement popped, I conquered Athens for the win! Not a very exciting achievement, but another box ticked on the road to 227/227.

Blanchflower · Aug 21, 2012, 04:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mesix

Hotseat is a multiplayer option where the human controllerd players all use the same PC. It is different than online. Select multiplayer and then select hotseat. Set up the game so you control both Greece and Byzantium.

If you want to do the achievement in single player, it can take time to wait for Greece to build the required boats for you to sink. I did it using a tiny map where I selected Greece as one opponent and left the others random. I eliminated the other players and whittled Greece down to just Athens remaining. I camped three Dromons outside Athens for the majority of the game and snyped ships every time Alexander decided to build one. Once the achievement popped, I conquered Athens for the win! Not a very exciting achievement, but another box ticked on the road to 227/227.

OK, so if I win on a hotseat game, will I get the multiplayer achievement? I have yet to play a multiplayer match, that is why I am asking.

Mesix · Aug 21, 2012, 04:36 AM

I dunno about that. I got the multiplayer achievement by playing an online game with my brother so the achievement had been popped before hotseat was enabled in a patch awhile back.

Blanchflower · Aug 21, 2012, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Mesix

I dunno about that. I got the multiplayer achievement by playing an online game with my brother so the achievement had been popped before hotseat was enabled in a patch awhile back.

OK, I know the answer. I never played any multiplayer match but this was my first hotseat game. I won the game as Byzantium and got the last man standing achievement! Strangely, I did not get the achievement yet for winning as Byzantium.

Jwallace · Aug 21, 2012, 05:43 AM

Another option is to manually set several opponents to all be Greece. Then you can attack 1-2 per enemy and move on.

trexeric · Aug 23, 2012, 03:15 PM

Give Greece some ships, sink them, repeat as necessary.

Yzman · Aug 23, 2012, 06:08 PM

The problem is you set it to settler. The AI will barely produce anything. When going for this achievement I set them to immortal and I got it very quickly.

Lord Kid · Aug 23, 2012, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by trexeric

Give Greece some ships, sink them, repeat as necessary.

This is what I was going to suggest. Friend him up, donate the ships, then DoW and take them out.

Yzman · Aug 23, 2012, 11:56 PM

I've never been able to do that. How do you gift units to another civ?

FeiLing · Aug 24, 2012, 12:28 AM

Try some of the buttons that are shown when a units is selected

You can also cheese achievements from the savegames I and some other community members provided from the link in my signature.

Bob_ · Aug 24, 2012, 01:27 AM

Play an archipelago game with 6 alexanders as opponents, king or emperor, worked fine for me

Scauthra · Aug 24, 2012, 03:41 AM

Like many other people have said. I put my game on King, Duel map, Archi, with high sea. All I did was build 6 dromon and teched gold to support it. Then I sat my ships on all escape routes from Greece and waited. It took about 160 turns to accomplish but it was still quick.

jtb47 · Aug 24, 2012, 03:58 AM

is it correct that actually one dromon has to kill ten greek ships?

Monthar · Aug 24, 2012, 04:09 AM

No, it does not have to be the same Droman to make all 10 kills. You can have 10 Dromons with 1 kill each if you want.

Aug 21, 2012, 03:39 AM	#1
Blanchflower Warlord Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Singapore Posts: 272	Problems with attaining the Greek Fire achievement OK, I am the Byzantium and Greece is my opponent. I am trying to achieve the Greek Fire achievement. This achievement basically says that one has to sink 10 Greek ships. I am playing on the Settler difficulty by the way. But the problem is, Greece is not producing any ships! What should I do? Should I increase the difficulty level of the game? Please help! Thanks!

Aug 21, 2012, 03:42 AM	#2
Monthar Emperor Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Elmendorf, Tx Posts: 1,276	Play a hotseat game then you can control both civs and just crank out Greek ships for the Dromons burn. __________________ Spooning leads to forking. Forking leads to knifing. Knifing leads to the Dark Side.

Aug 21, 2012, 04:11 AM	#4
Mesix I'm not crazy! Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 3,403	Hotseat is a multiplayer option where the human controllerd players all use the same PC. It is different than online. Select multiplayer and then select hotseat. Set up the game so you control both Greece and Byzantium. If you want to do the achievement in single player, it can take time to wait for Greece to build the required boats for you to sink. I did it using a tiny map where I selected Greece as one opponent and left the others random. I eliminated the other players and whittled Greece down to just Athens remaining. I camped three Dromons outside Athens for the majority of the game and snyped ships every time Alexander decided to build one. Once the achievement popped, I conquered Athens for the win! Not a very exciting achievement, but another box ticked on the road to 227/227. __________________ “Winning means being unafraid to lose" -Fran Tarkenton “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” -Sun Tzu

Aug 21, 2012, 04:36 AM	#6
Mesix I'm not crazy! Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Posts: 3,403	I dunno about that. I got the multiplayer achievement by playing an online game with my brother so the achievement had been popped before hotseat was enabled in a patch awhile back. __________________ “Winning means being unafraid to lose" -Fran Tarkenton “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” -Sun Tzu

Aug 23, 2012, 03:15 PM	#9
trexeric Spirit of the Forest Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 1,339	Give Greece some ships, sink them, repeat as necessary. __________________ trexeric's RFC Wins (Viceroy, Monarch, Emperor) Portugal, France, England, Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Mongolia, Japan, Netherlands, Carthage, Russia, Maya, Aztec, Inca, Ethiopia, Arabia, Khmer, Vikings, Turkey, India, America, Spain, Rome trexeric's RFC SoI Wins (Emir, Sultan, Caliph) Yemen, Armenia, Samanids, Timurids, Malwa, Abbasids, Ghaznavids, Antioch, Makuria, Fatimids, Seljuks, Georgia trexeric's RFCE Wins (Viceroy, Monarch, Emperor) Venice, Spain, Germany, Norse, Sweden, Hungary, Portugal, Cordoba

Aug 21, 2012, 05:43 AM	#8
Jwallace Chieftain Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 17	Another option is to manually set several opponents to all be Greece. Then you can attack 1-2 per enemy and move on.

Aug 23, 2012, 06:08 PM	#10
Yzman Emperor Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Illinois, USA Posts: 1,758	The problem is you set it to settler. The AI will barely produce anything. When going for this achievement I set them to immortal and I got it very quickly.

Aug 23, 2012, 11:56 PM	#12
Yzman Emperor Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Illinois, USA Posts: 1,758	I've never been able to do that. How do you gift units to another civ?

Aug 24, 2012, 12:28 AM	#13
FeiLing Emperor Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 1,261 Images: 1	Try some of the buttons that are shown when a units is selected You can also cheese achievements from the savegames I and some other community members provided from the link in my signature. __________________ CiV Hall of Fame \| Techtree \| AI Personalities \| Units \| Achievements

Aug 24, 2012, 01:27 AM	#14
Bob_ Warlord Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 233	Play an archipelago game with 6 alexanders as opponents, king or emperor, worked fine for me __________________ "If you're playing against Gandhi and he doesn't declare war randomly on you at some point, then we haven't done our job." Shirk.

Aug 24, 2012, 03:41 AM	#15
Scauthra Chieftain Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 14	Like many other people have said. I put my game on King, Duel map, Archi, with high sea. All I did was build 6 dromon and teched gold to support it. Then I sat my ships on all escape routes from Greece and waited. It took about 160 turns to accomplish but it was still quick.

Aug 24, 2012, 03:58 AM	#16
jtb47 Chieftain Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 12	is it correct that actually one dromon has to kill ten greek ships?

Aug 24, 2012, 04:09 AM	#17
Monthar Emperor Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Elmendorf, Tx Posts: 1,276	No, it does not have to be the same Droman to make all 10 kills. You can have 10 Dromons with 1 kill each if you want. __________________ Spooning leads to forking. Forking leads to knifing. Knifing leads to the Dark Side.

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