MeatUnit2
Warlord
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2010
- Messages
- 174
I have used the Cultural slider in the past to very little effect. It seems to me to be the weakest of the slider options.
It is probably a personality defect, or a lack of game skills (or both), but I tend to be a warmonger. Using the cultural slider is like trying to smother your opponents with kisses.
When I feel "cultural pressure" from a neighbor - his cultural boundaries encroaching on mine - I find it so much more efficacious to cross his borders in force and to raze or capture his cities. Or to send spies into those cities and cause trouble.
Often both.
Periodically during the game there are pop-ups announcing that someone or other has completed his great work listing the ten civs with the most culture and I look at these lists like a dessert menu. There is nothing more tempting to a warmonger than a civ that is spending all its commerce on cultural projects.
Very late in a game I have cranked up the cultural slider in order to get as many extra tiles out of (frequently my vassal states) neighbor's territory in order to reach a dominance victory. Other than that, give me guns, gold and spies.
It is probably a personality defect, or a lack of game skills (or both), but I tend to be a warmonger. Using the cultural slider is like trying to smother your opponents with kisses.
When I feel "cultural pressure" from a neighbor - his cultural boundaries encroaching on mine - I find it so much more efficacious to cross his borders in force and to raze or capture his cities. Or to send spies into those cities and cause trouble.
Often both.
Periodically during the game there are pop-ups announcing that someone or other has completed his great work listing the ten civs with the most culture and I look at these lists like a dessert menu. There is nothing more tempting to a warmonger than a civ that is spending all its commerce on cultural projects.
Very late in a game I have cranked up the cultural slider in order to get as many extra tiles out of (frequently my vassal states) neighbor's territory in order to reach a dominance victory. Other than that, give me guns, gold and spies.