Conquest game

[cephalo]

I have never seen the conquest victory movie, so I want to win my first conquest game. I have an insurmountable tech lead and a gigantic army of modern armor, mech infantry and mobile artillary. My most advanced enemy is using riflemen.

Now, I just have about 60 hours of playing time to slog through each and every city on a standard size map, knowing full well that not a single city has any chance of significant resistance. That does get boring after about 15 cities, and I have about 70 cities yet to raze, plus those few more nuisance towns that are plunked down in the gaps created by conquest.

Ugh, no wonder I haven't seen the conquest movie. Somebody put me out of my misery. Can't these people just give up and join my empire? If everyone becomes my vassal, do I win a conquest victory, or do I have to smash those too?

 

[RockTheCazbah87]

Hell, I'm terrible at warmongering, so I can't really help. Although I have rushed 1 or 2 people on Duel, so I have actually achieved said victory condition... do you want me to tell you what the movie is, or something else, or... AHH!

 

[Bushface]

1. Train some Stealth Bombers. They can smash enemy defences by bombing and reduce defenders to half strength, ready for your Mod. Arm. to finish matters, and do this long befor you can bring up the artillery. It may well be worthwhile to produce some of these in your military city, which no doubt is capable of turning out units with 17 XPs: give your Stealth Bombers Combat 1 & 2 and Range 1 & 2, and the area they can attack is huge.
2. Get some Gunships up to 17XP and give them Combat 3 and Blitz. They can then get rid of up to 4 defenders in successive attacks in the same turn, or move rapidly to another target. Good for obliterating the hordes of outdated units that the AI always seems to pack into its cities.
3. Given your massive tech superiority, don't pile your forces into huge stacks which the AI will almost certainly damage by catapult collateral. Instead, spread your forces and attack several cities in the same turn: I have managed to take as many as seven in a turn. True, your troops will take some time trekking across enemy territory to their next targets, but it's still much quicker than knocking down one or two cities per turm. To minimise transit time, if possible attack simultaneously from several directions; send a couple of transports full of Mod. Arm. to more distant coastal areas, and if the cities there are beyond the range of your Stealth Bombers then send some Battleships to blast any coastal cities.
4. Use your GGs as Warlords on single Mod. Arm. units to put them up by 20XPs from 17 or less, thus giving them at least two promotions; use Leadership and Morale so that they gain XP quicker, can move farther, and possibly make three attacks per turn. I've found more such units more useful than either spreading the extra 20XPs from a Warlord over several units or making super-strength units which you won't need against relatively weak opposition.
5. Kill ! Kill ! Kill !

P.S. The victory movie isn't by any means awe-inspiring.

 

[Party]

I liked the movie, I see it about every 1/4 of the games I play.
I have NEVER seen the UN or culture one.
He he he, chess.

 

[Supr49er]

I liked the movie, I see it about every 1/4 of the games I play.
I have NEVER seen the UN or culture one.
He he he, chess.

I Don't think there is a movie for the UN victory.

The culture movie is OK, but Spaceship and Conquest are much better.

 

[jason77024]

I have never seen the conquest victory movie, so I want to win my first conquest game.
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If everyone becomes my vassal, do I win a conquest victory, or do I have to smash those too?

The movie isn't that great, but yes, if you get every surviving civ as your vassal before hitting the domination benchmarks, you win a conquest victory. However, on the size map you're talking about (70 cities?), conquest is pretty difficult unless you uncheck domination. Btw, if you vassalize the final free civ and said act puts you over the domination levels, it's still a conquest victory.

If you just want to see the movie, play the Incans on a duel-sized map and spam Quechuas. Not thrilling, but you can put up a ridiculously early win date on your Hall of Fame.

If you want a reasonable game that's winable by conquest, move from Huge maps to Standard maps and try the Zulus. NB: Raze anything that's not a liberated AI capital.

 

[Kelvenor]

When i Lunch my space ship I zoom out just to see it lunch real time from Capital and it swich to the movie after....makes me want to play the custom space senario

 

[DigitalBoy]

I got a conquest victory by accident while trying for a domination victory.

Vassals counts as eliminated civs, so if the only civs remaining are your vassals, then victory is yours!

 

[Bhruic]

Isn't the conquest movie the same as the domination one? It's been awhile since I've seen it, so I can't recall.

Bh

 

[OTAKUjbski]

All of the movies are stupid, imo.

If you want to see it that badly, World-Builder yourself a tank outside everyone's capital in 4000 BC ... bam ... done.

On a related note, attack the non-Agressive and passive civs first. They're typically more likely to Vassalize sooner than later so you can move on to the next opponent without needing to raze the entire countryside.

Put your tech lead to good use. Bribe your rivals into a World War to weaken all of your opponents and keep them busy until you can get around to dealing with them.

Also, turn "Show enemy moves" off and both "Quick Combat" options on. You may even wish to turn "Stack attack" on.

Since you have such a lead, you might also want to split your SoD into smaller stacks so you can Blitzkrieg through multiple cities each turn.

And while you're splitting your stack, make a smaller one of 2+ troops devoted to pillaging the countryside. I find that helps make for a more exciting campaing in addition to crippling the enemy.

And finally, if you have that kind of tech lead, consider supplementing your Mechanized Infantry into your primary assault force instead of Modern Armour, since mechs start with March.

 

[Underdawg]

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If you want to see it that badly, World-Builder yourself a tank outside everyone's capital in 4000 BC ... bam ... done.

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What is so stupid about the Space Race Victory movie? At worst it's merely a 'meh.'

An easier way to view the movies....

C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization
4\Assets\Art\Movies\Victory

Make sure to get Bink Video Player (google it, it's free).

 

[KMadCandy]

good luck with your conquesting cephalo. there is no time victory movie, so don't bother spending the effort for that one

Also, turn "Show enemy moves" off and both "Quick Combat" options on. You may even wish to turn "Stack attack" on.

i'm lazy and never have tested that option, but i've always been curious about it. i don't know what it does . my only guess is that you group a stack of stuff and the game decides what order the units attack, like how it picks the "best defender" when the other guys is attacking you? i don't trust the computer's judgment so i've never even tried it, i could be totally wrong.

 

[Party]

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