Is all fair in love and war?

[Toxitalk]

Thanks for all the replies to my recent post, all have been welcome.

New question

How many people here play with random settings, and at what levels.

I have noticed many posts which talk about doing certain things in certain circumstances.

I too got sucked into this. You know what im talking about. Which civ gives me the best advantage, and how can I weaken the AI.

This is of course fine, but for me, the game has to be a random as poss, and If I start off in a crap position so much the better, as I may come accross something no-one has ever thought of.

After all, they have not yet played the perfect game of Chess yet, and that only has 6 different peices and 64 squares...

[Bam-Bam]

Before I started playing competition/comparison games, practically all of my games were all random. I love the idea of "play the hand you are dealt". For most succession games I play, the map (and likely the opponents) are random.

[gunnerxtr]

i play with everything random except for barbarians

[DS_Legionary]

I usually play all random, exceot for barbs. It adds a bit of mystery to a game.

[apparition]

I play almost all random. I choose my land mass type out of personal preferences. All else is random though, incl barbs

[benstandby]

Originally posted by apparition
I play almost all random. I choose my land mass type out of personal preferences. All else is random though, incl barbs

I do the same. I go Archipelago, huge, all civs (all random) and then its whatever the RNG decides.

Once its all generated, its time for a frosty cold one (or five).

[rush]

In my current game, I played everything Random, including Barbarian. It was a bad decision, 'cause i was playing the Expansionist Americans, and the Barbarians status turned out to be no Barbarians, and therefore not even a single goodie hut in the whole map.

So the expanisionist trait was completely useless. But nevertheless I press on and should win the game just before the Modern Age.

[gozpel]

Sometime in betweem GOTM and stuff I play a random game.

Now I sit on a 6 city island, with no recourses or luxuries and frantically researching MapMaking. I selected the level Monarch to be not completely over-run by the AI. I see a small piece of land S on my map and just guess where my first galley will go, in 18 turns?

Random is fun, it seems it gave me archipelago map this time.

[warmonger]

All random except map-size as this determines the length of the game. Map size also determines if I attack with swordmen (tiny small and standard) or horse (std, large, huge) purely because of the movement bonus.

[Toxitalk]

Thanks chaps

[Krayzeenbk]

Same as warmonger - all except map size.

[sabo]

I usually pick my civs but I pick them by trait not by UU, then I try and exploit those traits to their fullest, I can't tell you how many times I've switched governents in a religious, or how well I do warmongering with a militaristic..