Give Bad Advice: CIV Edition

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Inspired by this thread.

1. Always try to annoy Montezuma and Ragnar as much as possible. It's not as if anything bad will happen, right?
2. Portugal is the best civ for a Highlands map.

(some stuff I posted from the Civ3 thread)
3. Always disband your starting units.
4. When you meet another civ, set the science slider to zero, disband all your military units, give them all your gold, income, cities, and techs, and then declare war on them.
5. Play the One-City Conquest Challenge-No Military Units-Always War Variant against Shaka, Montezuma, Ragnar, and Genghis Khan on a small, cold Pangaea map on Deity with the Aggressive AI option on.
 
6. Save some Spearmen for attacking tanks.
7. If Rome is your neighbour but has no iron, hand yours over as soon as possible.
8. One Casing and one Engine are enough for your spaceship.
 
Bushface, I edited my post. Can you please edit your post accordingly?
 
6. Save some Spearmen for attacking tanks.

9. Conversely, do not build tanks, ever. If the AI happens to have 1-2 spears left, you are F***ed.

10. Siege engines slow you down, so don't build any of them, especially when attacking fortified longbows (or pikes, or muskets etc.) defending cities on hills. You want to attack them with horseback units and nothing else so that the AI does not have enough time to send in reinforcements.

OK, the last one may be a good advice, depending on the situation.
 
17. If you have are in a different religion than your neighbor, never convert to theirs. Yours is the true faith. Send your missionaries to Isabella, Justinian et al. They will eventually realize you are right and they are wrong. As above, demonstrate your faith in your Faith by disbanding your army.
 
10. Siege engines slow you down, so don't build any of them, especially when attacking fortified longbows (or pikes, or muskets etc.) defending cities on hills. You want to attack them with horseback units and nothing else so that the AI does not have enough time to send in reinforcements.

Some people actually successfully do that. HA's vs. archers, Curauissers vs Longbows, Cavalry vs. anything else.
 
20. Oil for Deer is a good trade.
 
21. Your workers are toughened by years in the fields, they can take care of themselves without an escort.
 
22. Portugal is the worst civ for a Highlands map.

(I mean, think about it.)
 
23. The Roman UU is named "Praetorian". Praetorians were used as palace guards, so in your Roman games you need to build only one Praetorian unit and fortify it in your capital. That's all they're good for.

24. If you want to be a warmonger, NEVER build buildings. They're for sissy peace lovers. Remember: every hammer put into a building is a hammer not put into a unit. And no building ever captured a city.

25. If you're a builder, build every building in every city. If you're going to be a builder, might as well build everything, right?
 
26. If you chase two rabbits, you will catch two rabbits instead of one! Go for it!
 
27. Build nuclear plants in every city, they give more power than coal and hydro plants so you can ignore some insignificant meltdowns
 
21. Your workers are toughened by years in the fields, they can take care of themselves without an escort.

This reminds me of the message "The best unit that the (insert civ name) has -that we know of- is the worker." by the foreign advisor in Civ 3, who appears to be very worried.
 
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