omglazers
Warlord
Playing on Patriot finally after successful games on Govenor as the French and Dutch. Playing again on the dutch, I had a FANTASTIC start and thanks to an early scout and some careful planning and plotting I had about six fantastic cities with tons of silver and resources and more food than I knew what to do with. However, I realized my dreams of ever doing an early military strike were worthless once I saw how many dragoons the Portugese had to the south. Stuck on a crappy little island with meager resources and tight cities, it honestly looked like they might be ripe for a picking off but once I saw their military I ran back, bought two privateers and prayed I could slow them down [I've tried to bring an offensiveness to Civ4Col but honestly it seems more like a business sim than anything military-like].
Later on, out of the blue the Mayans randomly declare war [I think an ancient ruin event triggered it]
My six soldiers were not going to be worth a damn. I retired there, and knew I was beaten.
The Chinese seemed to provide a healthy fight when a native tribe declared war on them, and at a much earlier time.
The power info screen says it all:
Two things: 1) How on earth do I keep up with power/soldiers/whatever in my games of Civ4Col or is it pointless to bother and 2) Is an early attack/offensive game even possible?!?
With civs like the Spanish [and others] ENCOURAGING military action, it seems nigh effin impossible to ever conduct a military action aside from fighting off the REF
I like micromanging and playing Col but conquering the trade aspect and praying noone wants to slap me with a musket seems like a poor strat.
HELP!
P.S. at the time of the war I was working on building an army, and had two gunsmiths working at the guns as quick as I could, but looking at that power info screen I *must* be missing something. Hell, even the Dutch 'King' wouldn't give me any help !
P.P.S Looking at the chart, I expect Georgie-poo to be at the top, but everyone else?
[Saves and screenshots available upon request]
Later on, out of the blue the Mayans randomly declare war [I think an ancient ruin event triggered it]
My six soldiers were not going to be worth a damn. I retired there, and knew I was beaten.
The Chinese seemed to provide a healthy fight when a native tribe declared war on them, and at a much earlier time.
The power info screen says it all:
Two things: 1) How on earth do I keep up with power/soldiers/whatever in my games of Civ4Col or is it pointless to bother and 2) Is an early attack/offensive game even possible?!?
With civs like the Spanish [and others] ENCOURAGING military action, it seems nigh effin impossible to ever conduct a military action aside from fighting off the REF
I like micromanging and playing Col but conquering the trade aspect and praying noone wants to slap me with a musket seems like a poor strat.
HELP!
P.S. at the time of the war I was working on building an army, and had two gunsmiths working at the guns as quick as I could, but looking at that power info screen I *must* be missing something. Hell, even the Dutch 'King' wouldn't give me any help !
P.P.S Looking at the chart, I expect Georgie-poo to be at the top, but everyone else?
[Saves and screenshots available upon request]