Big Map Pangaea Ancient Age

[Raliuven]

Any position from a Chieftain game can be won!

I agree. If you even have a small clue as to what you are doing. Unfortunately, my disk did not have a small clue attached when I opened it. I think everyone would agree that this game is not exactly intuative.

 

[Calis]

Ummm . . .

1) It was my first game.
2) I didn't read the manual first.
3) I thought the idea was to build a few really tough cities with as many improvements as necessary (coastal fortress anyone?)
4) Oh, what are all those pretty pictures around the map? What are luxuries and resources again?
5) Look, I can get pottery in 16 turns AND make gold! I can do that through the entire AA! What a steal!
6) No, I don't want to trade with you. I am an island unto myself.
7) Hey, good neighbors respect each other's boarders. We are all peaceful here. Nothing to look at.
8) Disband a unit? Why would I do that?
9) Upgrade a unit? Must require some of those pretty pictures I don't have.
10) A witch turned me into a newt shortly before I started playing. Luckily I got better.
11) I should have added a few sarcasm alerts. However, I most certainly had spears and they had tanks. I had more than just spears, but spears nonetheless - and 2 per city at that.
12) I was ambitious if not smart. I like a lot of land and a lot of friends. So huge map with 16 civs. I had 7 cities. Wow, how did the AI grow like that? And why are they all attacking ME!
13) Workers should mine mountains first. All those green and brown tiles could not posisbly be more valuable . . .
14) Pretty much read 'you might be an AI Civ' and I did everything the AI does. Only worse.

Fantastic.

Now even I understood it...

 

[ChaosArbiter]

Ummm . . .

1) It was my first game.
2) I didn't read the manual first.
3) I thought the idea was to build a few really tough cities with as many improvements as necessary (coastal fortress anyone?)
4) Oh, what are all those pretty pictures around the map? What are luxuries and resources again?
5) Look, I can get pottery in 16 turns AND make gold! I can do that through the entire AA! What a steal!
6) No, I don't want to trade with you. I am an island unto myself.
7) Hey, good neighbors respect each other's boarders. We are all peaceful here. Nothing to look at.
8) Disband a unit? Why would I do that?
9) Upgrade a unit? Must require some of those pretty pictures I don't have.
10) A witch turned me into a newt shortly before I started playing. Luckily I got better.
11) I should have added a few sarcasm alerts. However, I most certainly had spears and they had tanks. I had more than just spears, but spears nonetheless - and 2 per city at that.
12) I was ambitious if not smart. I like a lot of land and a lot of friends. So huge map with 16 civs. I had 7 cities. Wow, how did the AI grow like that? And why are they all attacking ME!
13) Workers should mine mountains first. All those green and brown tiles could not posisbly be more valuable . . .
14) Pretty much read 'you might be an AI Civ' and I did everything the AI does. Only worse.

I wish I had your excuses. Unfortunately, I'd played Civ and Civ2 for ages so I (theoretically) knew what I was doing. I was just bad at the game.

 

[GamezRule]

In one of my first chieftain games, America had 100 Modern Armor and 60 tanks.

 

[bigFRANK]

Certainly had AI tanks in my first chieftain game (huge, 16 civs) probably around 1850ad, mind the only victory condition I had turned on was domination.

 

[Spoonwood]

In one of my first chieftain games, America had 100 Modern Armor and 60 tanks.

It doesn't count if you're playing America.

 

[GamezRule]

Why not?

 

[ChaosArbiter]

Because that wouldn't be the AI building 100 Modern Armor and 60 Tanks, that'd be the human player building them.

 

[GamezRule]

I was playing Carthage.

 

[Spoonwood]

I was playing Carthage.

Sure, but another human player was playing America.

 

[GamezRule]

No. The date was 2150 AD.

 

[Spoonwood]

No. The date was 2150 AD.

See.... it wasn't within the parameters of the epic game!

 

[GamezRule]

Did I ever say it was? You must be making things up.

 

[Spoonwood]

Did I ever say it was? You must be making things up.

You know that was the assumption people made. You know that was the impression you gave.

 

[del62]

I did not want to be arrogant. But I have never seen an AI with tanks on chieftain. Even in my HoF space ship games, where I gifted them up into the modern age.

When your gifting them up in fast HOF games, they havent exactly got time to produce a tank, or even connect up the required resourses, but in 2030AD they might just get there

 

[Raliuven]

Well, they certainly don't get there anymore, not that I play chieften either. But I have to say that I made it to warlord on my own! After that, I think I would have put the game aside if it was not for the great people and great advice found on this website.