Help for military problems

I started a game playing with the Romans on a huge map, and I am now in 1500 Ad. I conquered a great part of the world and expanded a lot with my settlers. My problem is: usually I win 2-4 cities from the enemy every war, but even after 15 turns, the other countries refuse to talk with me and I can't make peace. So I have to build a very strong defense in every border city and I am still exposed to enemy attacks. More, when I am in a war, a lot of cities are in civil disorder and I can't do anything.

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What government are you playing ?
Do you have many buildings to keep your people happy ?
Do you have any screen shots you could post they might help.
Also do you have a habit of starting these wars getting peace and then breaking the treaty or prehaps have you used a ROP to get a sneak attack on the AI ?

If you have a lead on tech over them, you can offer them tech for peace. Or you can try offering a city you find useless or that would easily flip back to you to them, who knows they might accept.

Mirc said:

I started a game playing with the Romans on a huge map, and I am now in 1500 Ad. I conquered a great part of the world and expanded a lot with my settlers. My problem is: usually I win 2-4 cities from the enemy every war, but even after 15 turns, the other countries refuse to talk with me and I can't make peace. So I have to build a very strong defense in every border city and I am still exposed to enemy attacks. More, when I am in a war, a lot of cities are in civil disorder and I can't do anything.

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1. You are making a lot of war, so that would probably be whats making the enemy not like you (especially if you declare with units in their territory). Even if it's a defensive war, you are the aggressor once you start taking cities.

2. If you have all your tiles railroaded, you dont need to build defence in every city, just move your units to citied where you see enemy units near by

3. Your cities go into disorder because of war weariness. If you are in republic or democracy, your citizens will get more and more unhappy as the war goes on. If you are playing a civ with a religious trait, try switching to a non-representational government for the war. If you dont have the religious civ trait, just dont let the wars last as long, because switching governments would take too long

The trick in deploying your military is to MAKE SURE that the AI is severly weakened enough to NOT retaliate, that means combined arms on almost all fronts and making sure that any counter-strike force sent against you is eliminated by either planes, ships, or very mobile units able to protect the flanks of your main drive, placing artillery on your border, (guarded by a defensive unit of course) can help to slow the tide into your land, which should give you enough time to get a mobile force in there and wipe them out.

I can't tell you more unless, I know a little bit more about your game. But Espionage, (If you can afford it) is always helpful in offensive AND defensive operations, especialy in troop dispositions.

I play in Despotism, but I think I will try to change to Monarchy, I heard it is the best (together with Comunism) for war. I hope I will soon have time to post some screenshots.
I don't have railways, I'm in 1480, so I have to defense my border cities. Usually other countries like me, because I discovered a bug in Civ3 that gives me unlimited gold that I give them "as a token of goodwill".
How could I offer them a city for peace, if they don't want to talk?

Mirc said:

I play in Despotism, but I think I will try to change to Monarchy, I heard it is the best (together with Comunism) for war. I hope I will soon have time to post some screenshots.
I don't have railways, I'm in 1480, so I have to defense my border cities. Usually other countries like me, because I discovered a bug in Civ3 that gives me unlimited gold that I give them "as a token of goodwill".
How could I offer them a city for peace, if they don't want to talk?

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1480 and you're in Despotism? There's a giant problem right there. Despotism severly hampers how much you can get out of your resources and tiles, as well as suffering from horrible corruption. Change to Monarchy (or better, Republic) as soon as possible. It will give you a huge boost.

How much military do you have, and where are they deployed at the moment, get a screenshot up, and i can help you with the tactical situation.