Civ 3 GOTM#5 *Spoiler* talks

[Lucky]

Continuing story from 1AD:
They didn´t defend so hard at all, at least not in the beginning.
It all began with the invasion of Japan. I had made RoPs with all of them and used them to my best. The Japenese were relatively easy to defeat, just spearmen against my knights and a few swordmen. It didn´t take long and soon my forces were able to move in position for the attack on Greece.
The greek Hoplites did put up a decent fight but with overwhelming numbers and steady reinforcements it didn´t take too long either. I made peace with them for some hard to get cities and went on to the last target.
The Egyptians were in the process of upgrading to pikemen when my attack began. So it did take some time but in the initial attack I captured their capital and the 2 northern cities, thus cutting them off from their iron supply. They also didn´t have much offensive units to mount a decent counterattack so it went into the same direction as before.
But when I captured the remaining Greek cities they unfortunately respawned and it took me at least 10 more turns to get my forces to that place.
Anyway, sooner or later it ended with another reasonably well score. I´m sure milking will bring up some better scores, but much earlier conquests would be awesome! Let´s see.

 

[EricRoush]

Well, I've submitted my first GOTM. I got culturally whupped
by the Egyptians , although I ended the game in 2024 with
map domination. If I had tried to avoid the map domination,
I might have been able to wipe the Egyptians out in 25 years,
but the Americans would have been left with a burnt-out radioactive
cinder.

My game went significantly different than others I've read here.
Joan and I were peaceful to begin with, I built New York on the
cattle square, then saw where the iron popped up and built
Boston there. Joan and I ended up at war against the Russian
menace and beat them back, but then I lost a city by cultural
conversion to Joan. Realizing that she didn't have iron, but
she and everybody else had a big culture lead on me, that
meant war. I wiped out the French, then went back to war
with the Russians. I'd expand, make a peace, start losing cities
to culture, then have to fight again. The Russian cossacks almost
did me in, but we rallied and crushed the Russians after Washington
built the Forbidden Palace in Buffalo. Meanwhile,
the Japanese and Greeks had been harassing my rear every so often.
Eventally, the Greeks wiped out the Japanese, so then I had to
wipe out the Greeks with Egyptian assistance. Then, of course,
that left the Egyptians, who were by that time so far ahead culturally
that I was toast.

 

[grunt]

Just finished my 1st gotm (with reloading). Got a conquest victory 830AD with final score 7050. I could of gotten higher if I stopped making knights in near the end and went for settlers/land. Here are some key points.
-Took Paris very early with first warrior.
-Disbanded and rebuilt Washington and Paris is new capitol.
-Peace with France for 2 techs and gold.
-Rushed to horsemen and produced them nonstop from 3 or 4 barracks.
-Took out Moscow quick with horsemen and eventually Moscow was left with 1 tundra city. Got a leader to make FP in Moscow.
-Peace with Russia for 2 techs and gold.
-Took out Japans iron producing city (Tokyo?) then Kyoto. Got my 2nd and final leader and made pyramids there.
-Back home Colossus finished building and triggered Goldgen Age.
-France built Great Lighthouse and I captured and eliminated them.
-Now its around 10AD and I'm finishing off Japan's spearmen with my horsemen. Chivalry in about 5 turns, which I'll need for hoplites.
-So far I've had my science at 70-80% whole game and entertainment at 0-20%. I have a 3-5 tech lead. I should have skipped literature since I made no libraries.
-Once I got chivalry I dropped my science to 10%. While finishing off Greece I started war with Egypt and took out its iron city.
-My knights finished off Egypt. Egypt had 5 swordsmen, archers, spearmen and warriors. No pikemen.

 

[Grey Fox]

Finnally I finished the GOTM...

Got a Domination Victory at 2050 AD.

Building two wonders in the Capital in a row really me slowed my Expansion in the Start. (After taking out Russia and French...)

And my dumb Idea to wait and take out Egyptians first also blew me score.

But I had a lot of FUN and when I was waring against the Japanese in the Industrial Ages I used only Naval units and a Combo of [Marines/INfantry] + [Artillary]. NO tanks... even if I could.

Have to get to sleep, been up for way too long know...

 

[nbarclay]

Definitely not a good starting position, and I'm a bit jealous of those who got a settler from a goodie hut. All I got was some lousy maps, and a free settler would have saved me from being hurried into building New York on top of the cattle south of Paris instead of beside them. (France had a setter essentially next to mine, so waiting another turn could have spelled trouble.) Worse, it looks like 1.17f changed things so a city founded on top of a bonus resource can't benefit from it.

For the full story, read "The Greatest Voyage" on the Apolyton stories forum. (I did include a spoiler alert.)

The end result was a space race victory in 1810. I'm sure I could have milked it for a higher score than I got (not that I scored particularly badly), but playing for score instead of running my nation like a nation takes too much of the fun out of it for me.

Nathan

 

[Elfi Wolfe]

Everyone seems to be at war.

I normally go for peace, building up my economy.

The land between france and Russian I set up 2 cities, and another just past the mountains near paris to get the furs, and when iron was found there was an iron in its footprint .

Then I went on to becoming a Large naval power, trireims found an island south of the Russians and then found the 2 large land masses east of that, between Egypt and Greece. So I ended up by game end with cities on 6 different land masses.
Never did loose an American founded city but a few of the cities that were captured in military actions, did change a few times. (but who really cares about 1 pop cities with nothing)

You can often tell when a civ is about to attack. (perfect time to get a multual defense pack with their rival .

My first big war was with greece for the land mass south of washington, next to greece, started with a settle city race and ended up with me in control of the heart of it.
Next major one was egypt was moving tons of navel forces towards the small island next to them and south of russia.
so got a Defense pact with russia (for 1 tech) and then fought off the egyptians. then greece attack me and the defense pack ended up being a hindrenace. I was suffuring from War fatigue and if I got peace with egypt or greece, russia's pact would bring me back into war.

Russian a few years latter decides it want to crush france. but I've blocked (and fortified) the border with russian so russian attacks me to go though my territory to crush france.
Anyone ever seen what 10 bombers and 2 carriers can do to cities. I bombed any city in range back to the stone age.

oh well it was a fun game.

The best game is the one you just lose or just win.

 

[JoeM]

Finally submitted my gotm sav this morning, hopefully Matrix will accept it, grovel, grovel.

I played slightly differently to most, from what I 've read a lot of people took out France and Russia first, but they seemed to strong for me and the Japanese/Greek territory looked much richer so I went for them first. Russia turned into my worst enemy nearer the end, but the didn't get tanks so they had no chance.

Couldn't decide on what victory to go for, but I had run out of time to submit the game so I took the Space victory. Would have preferred Diplomatic as I haven't done that one yet, but there you go.

Lord knows how long it will take to complete gotm6 as it's on a large map...

 

[Matrix]

Originally posted by Matrix
Next time I'll make the map warm, wet and 5 billion years.

I've kept my word.

 

[civ_steve]

Just as I thought would happen, I played until 11:30 pm April 2nd, and couldn't quite pull a domination victory out of the hat. No submittal for me, Sigh!!

Quick recap: scouted around, felt I had to beat the French to the area South of Paris to have any chance. My settler and two warriors against his settler and 1 warrior meant Victory for me. I established New York just north of the Gem mountains, and started a road back to Washington. A barracks and several veteran warriors later and Paris was mine, after he gave me all his techs for a peace which didn't last long. (The AI seemed to make contact and trade techs amazingly fast.) Boston was then founded next to the hills SW of Paris, and I eventually made my FP there. I never did change my palace away from DC.

The Russians attacked me several times over the ages. Each time I beat them back and took some cities. I suppose if I had pushed the issue, taken Moscow, then arranged my palace and FP like Zachariel did, this would have worked better, but I didn't finally kick the Russians off my starting continent until mid 1800's.

The Japanese took out the Greeks in the early 1700's. I allied with Alexander, and eventually beat up the Japanese in the early 1900's. Egypt and I have had Naval-Air battles, but only limited land battles.

So, its now 1953, and we're a few techs into the Modern era. France and Greece are totally gone. Russia is down to 4 cities on spread out islands. Japan is down to 1 city on a remote island. Egypt is culturally well ahead of me. I own two continents, the spice island and most of the mountainous island, and I've been rushing settlers out to fill in the gaps, but still no domination victory! I must be really close. Oh well!