Recent content by Zwischenzug

Whatever ;) End result: more monaaaaaay! :D Both sell for outstandingly high prices to the AI! Democracy is probably the best selling tech of the entire Medieval Age, and Ironclads sell incredibly well for the small price you pay in research. I will happily invest a few turns to use this tech...

True, but you don't want to risk anyone snatching it either ;) True. Yeah, but you want what The Portuguese are all about, in the end - that sweet, sweet monaaaaay :D World Maps sell quite well, especially if you know the world very well. Admittedly, you can wait with the selling until...

Thanks for the link, justanick! :) What you say about the time until Magnetism is true, and you may achieve control of the seas during that time period. But seriously (and I speak as someone who, unlike most, apparently, likes naval combat in Civ 3): what's the point? You can do almost anything...

Okay folks, some very important points about the playstyle you need to adopt with The Portuguese have already been pointed out, but I summariesed and expanded that slightly in a little review: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=13781262#post13781262

tl;dr - Arguably the best tech broker in the game that needs to translate an early advantage into a decisive lead by trade alone. The Portuguese reguralry get hammered in discussions about the "worst Civ" because of their unusual combination of traits (which has even been called...

I noticed that the Portuguese are catching quite a lot of flak around here (I believe Ision also rated them as the worst Civ of the game). I will have to do a review on them quite soon, because I think that they actually have a pretty decent play. Granted, the UU is crap, but they are possibly...

Either that, or move in even after war broke out. Six movement can get you quite far. If you move it right and use the map right, you can even penetrate six more tiles on the next turn (somehow the AI doesn't prioritise catching Explorers very highly, and you can use mountain ranges the AI...

Not a good one, but yeah :lol: True, I amend my statement: the AI often doesn't bother to research it with a high priority. They tend to go down the Nationalism road first. I adore the Explorer :lol: This unit has won me wars! Cutting off an AI from Saltpeter or Horses in a protracted...

Last week, I would have said Longbowmen, hands down. In >10 years of Civ III, I can honestly say that I never consciously built significant numbers of them (might have gotten a good number upgraded from Archer here and there, but that was more convenience than plan). They cost the same as...

I follow your reasoning, but I still see Knight armies as stronger than Berserk armies. As you nicely calculated, Knight armies can take even the most hardy city without much sweat - and most cities aren't on hills. And you will soon have more than one of these Knight armies. In addition, I find...

Well spotted ;) But as you say, irrelevant in this particular context. Well, I never... I devised this strategy way (like, really, really way) back, and suspect that the upgrade was not possible in one of the older patches. I can only apologise :blush: I can only say in my defense that I never...

tl;dr - A monstrous warmongering Civ, but with a few twists to it, revolving around the Berserk UU. The Vikings are Militaristic and Seafaring, starting with Pottery and Warrior Code, and their UU is the Berserk, which replaces Lonbowmen with a 6.2.1 ampibious unit. And there you have it all -...

I'm new at writing here, but I'm an old hand at Civ III (which I find to be the crown jewel of the Civilization series) and have followed this awesome forum for years. The Civ reviews by Ision, Zardnaar, and the others are one of the high-points and I often found them to be immensely insightful...