Civ 3 GOTM #2 *Spoiler* talks

[Aeson]

Yah, you'd be pretty much immune to conquest on your own island. Shore bombardment could still be very annoying though. I just tried a Deity OcC game, got smacked hard a couple turns before I was able to get Fission (about 200 egyptian units to my 15 riflemen and calvary). To that point, every Civ was polite or gracious, and basically every other Civ had gone to war with each of the others at some point in time. Wasn't able to trade for any important resources as no one had any extra's for most of the game. I guess my Riflemen just looked too tempting to the Egyptians. There was a rubber just one space into the Egyptian territory, so close... At least the English, Iroquois, and Greeks bought it before I did.

No one else had started building the UN yet, so I had a shot at it if I could have stayed in the game. It was hard keeping close in science, pre-patch I probably would have made it to fission in time. There were about 20 times I either researched a tech that some of the other Civs didn't have, or traded for one, and they got it in the middle of my turn. Very frustrating. Even sometimes when the Civs involved were at war with each other they still made the transaction somehow. I think on deity you either need a lucky island setup, or an early military conquest. Getting stuck next to the main superpower (or surrounded by them) just isn't any fun.

 

[Grey Fox]

Been there, done that...

On my first play on emperor, I was the Babylon... expanded from my main Island, (after a war, getting the island for myself that is) to 2 smaller islands... and blocked the shores with mostly workers, couse i kinda built a harbor (could have sold it I know, but it cost much in peace time...), so swordsmen took too long...

That did so I got two Islands with no shores to land on until marines...

I maybe got some pictures for you... w8

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