scorth
Chieftain
So in my current game I'm trying to eek out a domination victory (mostly because space is going to take a long time and I'm getting tired of the game). Another civ is close to a Cultural victory (although I'll just raze a city or two to slow her down).
My question is: If I'm at 41-42% Population and 29-30% Land Mass and the Victory conditions are 46% Population and 35ish% Land Mass. Would I be better off capturing cities or razing them? Do I have to acheive both Pop and LM to win the domination? Or is it one or the other?
'Cause if I raze'em, I should get closer to the 46% easiest, especially if I'm razing big cities (which they are!). The main reason that I'm thinking raze over capture is that I don't have sufficient forces to sustain massive Cannon/Cav/Inf counter-attacks. Essentially, I'm using overwhelming naval/air support and about 25 Tanks/MobileArty/Marines/Inf to take the cities one by one or a couple in different places at a time. I would rather stay mobile and pick my cities one at a time, hence the razing. If I had more time...or interest, I'd heavily build up and take the cities one at a time in order. But I'm here now and I'm looking forward to my first win at a new, higher difficulty (Prince, be nice, I only get a couple of hours a week to play -- wifes not a fan)...
Ideas Guys?
By the way, this forum has essentially raised my game from struggling on Noble to this win on Prince...Thanks!! (it's Noble then Prince, right?! I'm not at my computer)
My question is: If I'm at 41-42% Population and 29-30% Land Mass and the Victory conditions are 46% Population and 35ish% Land Mass. Would I be better off capturing cities or razing them? Do I have to acheive both Pop and LM to win the domination? Or is it one or the other?
'Cause if I raze'em, I should get closer to the 46% easiest, especially if I'm razing big cities (which they are!). The main reason that I'm thinking raze over capture is that I don't have sufficient forces to sustain massive Cannon/Cav/Inf counter-attacks. Essentially, I'm using overwhelming naval/air support and about 25 Tanks/MobileArty/Marines/Inf to take the cities one by one or a couple in different places at a time. I would rather stay mobile and pick my cities one at a time, hence the razing. If I had more time...or interest, I'd heavily build up and take the cities one at a time in order. But I'm here now and I'm looking forward to my first win at a new, higher difficulty (Prince, be nice, I only get a couple of hours a week to play -- wifes not a fan)...
Ideas Guys?
By the way, this forum has essentially raised my game from struggling on Noble to this win on Prince...Thanks!! (it's Noble then Prince, right?! I'm not at my computer)