OK, I am too addicted to give this game up...
Emperor level, normal world map, started in Europe, 8 civs. I'm greek, English start in north africa, Egyptians somewhere on the russian plains, Romans lurk down in India. The rest battle over America.
4000 BC: Athens founded, the empire of the Greeks is born. One settler, one hoplite,temple and then The Great Library. My second city, Sparta, starts producing settlers at a painfully slow rate. However, I do expand over Europe.
1000 BC: Around this date, the Egyptians, may the Gods curse their race for all times, declare war on me. I havn't got a chance! I am force to buy them off for a crippeling sum. Meanwhile, I loose the colonization race. English and Egyptians settle all around me, blocking me completely. Any attempt to break out of this iron grip, settling somewhere else, leads to war. My cities can hold,as soon as I got some Hoplites, but Egyptian chariots devastate my lands, reducing all land improvements to rubble.
I am used playing the babs, where the might culture makes it impossible for any ednemy to build close to my cities without having them revolt. Also, on earlier maps, I have been within spitting distance of my enemie, sorry neighourgs capitols, making war quite easy. This is not the case for the greeks.
How do I break this stalemate?
Emperor level, normal world map, started in Europe, 8 civs. I'm greek, English start in north africa, Egyptians somewhere on the russian plains, Romans lurk down in India. The rest battle over America.
4000 BC: Athens founded, the empire of the Greeks is born. One settler, one hoplite,temple and then The Great Library. My second city, Sparta, starts producing settlers at a painfully slow rate. However, I do expand over Europe.
1000 BC: Around this date, the Egyptians, may the Gods curse their race for all times, declare war on me. I havn't got a chance! I am force to buy them off for a crippeling sum. Meanwhile, I loose the colonization race. English and Egyptians settle all around me, blocking me completely. Any attempt to break out of this iron grip, settling somewhere else, leads to war. My cities can hold,as soon as I got some Hoplites, but Egyptian chariots devastate my lands, reducing all land improvements to rubble.
I am used playing the babs, where the might culture makes it impossible for any ednemy to build close to my cities without having them revolt. Also, on earlier maps, I have been within spitting distance of my enemie, sorry neighourgs capitols, making war quite easy. This is not the case for the greeks.
How do I break this stalemate?
