RNevermore
Chieftain
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2007
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I have a boring job. It allows me to think allot, and while I was thinking about which civilization I am going to play in 5 days. I decided it would be the Aztecs.
My future kingdom
The thought about their special ability (gaining a small amount of culture per kill), naturally lead to a thought about how I could capitalize on such an advantage. I thought, 'To gain the strongest advantage as this civ, I need to be destroying enemy units as often as possible, even constantly, over the course of the game. Unfortunately, as most of us are aware, a periminant state of War weighs heavily on the happiness of your civ, your economy and your resources. And God forbid you actually wind up LOSING the war, or making enemies with everyone in the world.
So it got me to thinking, 'If only I could find a weak civilization with very little ambition, contain it, siege it, surround it, and farm any units it produces as fleshy bags of culture at infinitum.'
...
But wait! Thanks to City States, that could be possible!
Farming culture
I haven't done lengthy research or analasys of what we know thus far of Civilization 5, so I don't know the specifics, the numbers, or how viable this strategy is. Maybe someone more learned can lay down some stats on this, but here, I'll lay it down simply.
It is possible, as the Aztecs, to surround and contain one or more city states that happen to be near your empire, and remain at constant war with them, killing units for a cultural bonus every time they produce them. But is it viable? To find out, we need a few questions answered:
-What effects upon your happiness, trade or culture would a prolonged war with a City State have?
-Are city states capable of putting up more of a fight than that? Would a civilization be able to effectively supress one or more city states with ease?
-Would the bonuses for peace with the city states be greater than the cultural bonuses one would recieve from war, as well as the military promotions?
-A constant war with one or more city states would likely negatively effect your relations with other city states or civilizations. Would the military requirement of farming the states be great enough to cripple a war on other fronts?
I don't know any specifics or numbers on any of this. Perhaps someone else does, or perhaps we will need to wait until release and testing. But it would be very interesting.
Glory of the Aztecs
PS: These pictures come from the movie 'Apocalypto', which I highly reccomend to anyone who has not seen it.
My future kingdom
The thought about their special ability (gaining a small amount of culture per kill), naturally lead to a thought about how I could capitalize on such an advantage. I thought, 'To gain the strongest advantage as this civ, I need to be destroying enemy units as often as possible, even constantly, over the course of the game. Unfortunately, as most of us are aware, a periminant state of War weighs heavily on the happiness of your civ, your economy and your resources. And God forbid you actually wind up LOSING the war, or making enemies with everyone in the world.
So it got me to thinking, 'If only I could find a weak civilization with very little ambition, contain it, siege it, surround it, and farm any units it produces as fleshy bags of culture at infinitum.'
...
But wait! Thanks to City States, that could be possible!
Farming culture
I haven't done lengthy research or analasys of what we know thus far of Civilization 5, so I don't know the specifics, the numbers, or how viable this strategy is. Maybe someone more learned can lay down some stats on this, but here, I'll lay it down simply.
It is possible, as the Aztecs, to surround and contain one or more city states that happen to be near your empire, and remain at constant war with them, killing units for a cultural bonus every time they produce them. But is it viable? To find out, we need a few questions answered:
-What effects upon your happiness, trade or culture would a prolonged war with a City State have?
-Are city states capable of putting up more of a fight than that? Would a civilization be able to effectively supress one or more city states with ease?
-Would the bonuses for peace with the city states be greater than the cultural bonuses one would recieve from war, as well as the military promotions?
-A constant war with one or more city states would likely negatively effect your relations with other city states or civilizations. Would the military requirement of farming the states be great enough to cripple a war on other fronts?
I don't know any specifics or numbers on any of this. Perhaps someone else does, or perhaps we will need to wait until release and testing. But it would be very interesting.
Glory of the Aztecs
PS: These pictures come from the movie 'Apocalypto', which I highly reccomend to anyone who has not seen it.
