Hardest difficulty you have beaten the game on!
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Theodorick
King
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I've been winning constantly on noble until it for too easy. Now I am trying out Monarch and TRYING to win. I am limping along.
flytyer
Master Fisherman
I too just graduated from noble to monarch and it has been challenging. I have won a couple but lost a couple as well. I like to be able to omplete dominate before moving on. Just me though...
LordCopenhagen
Chieftain
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Deity, although I mostly play on Immortal to beef up my game. Check the HOF when it updates next for proof.
Immortal is the highest level I've beaten on a small or above map size game, Deity I've gotten on tiny and duel, so I don't know if that really counts per say.
Immortal is the highest level I've beaten on a small or above map size game, Deity I've gotten on tiny and duel, so I don't know if that really counts per say.
dojoboy
Tsalagi
My second win (and game) was on Noble, lake map. About to start up another Noble game, continents, before moving to Prince. I believe the area where I'm going to have to get better, from the move from Civ3, is science (beating the AI in the tech race).
I've won 2 games on noble and 1 game on prince so far, but my two attempts at Monarch have wound up being angrily turned off when the computer shows up on my doorstep with ten million units that I am not prepared for. This has happened twice, both times I thought I was in good shape until *BAM* Montezuma or someone else declares war and he's got like forty maceman immediately pillaging my towns and improvements while I sit behind my walls furiosly building longbowman. I still am getting used to the fact that, unlike Civ 3, the computer is not completely inept at waging war and actually knows (kind of) how to defend itself and take over your cities.
I was for a moment pleased with myself when I won a conquest game by 900 AD with Rome on what I thought was monarch difficulty, and then I discovered afterwards I had not changed it and it was Noble the whole time. At least now I know what you need to do to get 44,000 points.
I was for a moment pleased with myself when I won a conquest game by 900 AD with Rome on what I thought was monarch difficulty, and then I discovered afterwards I had not changed it and it was Noble the whole time. At least now I know what you need to do to get 44,000 points.
Emperor on a huge map. 
To my regret it was a space race. It was just my second game on this level and i didnt expect them to built spaceships that fast so i had to beat them while throwing my army of modern tanks at them.
I realy would liked to end it in a great war with my strong ally, Egypt, but no.
Going to try immortal at huge, but it's very difficult.
To my regret it was a space race. It was just my second game on this level and i didnt expect them to built spaceships that fast so i had to beat them while throwing my army of modern tanks at them.
I realy would liked to end it in a great war with my strong ally, Egypt, but no.
Going to try immortal at huge, but it's very difficult.
Anyone else find it pathetic that the official support site links to this thread to show how much people 'love' the game, when meanwhile the rest of the threads about the game on this forum are rants against the game, the developers, and the publishers?
Um... I *might* snag a diplomatic victory on warlord tonight (as of yeat, no dice winning on warlord)... if I can't, one of the AI civs will get the space ship (if I don't act on them militarily). Score victory is also out of the question because one of the other civs (not the one building the space ship) is over 1000 points higher than myself.
I have beat Chieftain repeatedly (and Settler isn't even worth playing for me) so I'm repeatedly and quite stubbornly bashing my head into warlord playing.
Yeah, big whoop huh? LOL
I have beat Chieftain repeatedly (and Settler isn't even worth playing for me) so I'm repeatedly and quite stubbornly bashing my head into warlord playing.
Yeah, big whoop huh? LOL
Minmaster
Prince
hardest i beat on normal settings was immortal, i cannot beat diety yet.
Nope... still only won on Chieftain. Tanks and gunships were not enough to stop the computer from winning a time victory -- but I realized after starting the war that the other civs had no hope of completing the spaceship because they lacked resources that I had... Shame I didn't get started on it until too late, I could have finished the ship had I had fifteen more turns... *bangs head on desk*Caprice said:
Maybe next time. LOL
yeah stupid diety, it's just one of those things you do once if you can and forget it. I mean I can't even do emperor all the time on a normal map, but I can do diety if I mess with the settings to make it small or do an early rush or something. plus it's soooooo booooooring staying the entire game with 1-3 cities, kinda take the whole empire feeling out of it. Playing CivII on diety with like 50 cities was hella fun 
Ah, the days of fundamentalism, nothing like taking the world over with hordes of terrorists...
Ah, the days of fundamentalism, nothing like taking the world over with hordes of terrorists...Skanderbeg
Chieftain
Won my first Prince game yesterday , the eigth try on this level.
Standard size, all other settings random, map type chosen by rolling a dice.
Won space race with Togukawa on Pangaea map.
On Noble, I have been able to win Culture Victory on Huge Map.
Now its going up to Monarch
, the eigth try on this level.Standard size, all other settings random, map type chosen by rolling a dice.
Won space race with Togukawa on Pangaea map.
On Noble, I have been able to win Culture Victory on Huge Map.
Now its going up to Monarch
TCGTRF
Warlord
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After playing for about 8 days straight, I finally won a game on Noble.
Archipelago game playing Americans (Roosevelt) with Huge map and Time Victory only enabled. Traded places at the top with Cyrus over and over again during the last 100 years, and almost did myself in when I mistook a coal resource for iron and missed out on railroads for 50 turns in the later game.
Switched places one last time when I got the second future tech on the 2050 turn.
One amazing experience!
TomTrumpinski
Archipelago game playing Americans (Roosevelt) with Huge map and Time Victory only enabled. Traded places at the top with Cyrus over and over again during the last 100 years, and almost did myself in when I mistook a coal resource for iron and missed out on railroads for 50 turns in the later game.
Switched places one last time when I got the second future tech on the 2050 turn.
One amazing experience!
TomTrumpinski
Finding Monarch hard, beat Prince fairly easily but Monarch seems hard no matter what. Very hard if not impossible to stay even close in tech and aggressive neighbours comming after your hide forcing one to cranck out defensive units (spears/archers/mounted archers against catapults) exclusively.
Perhaps a carefully culitvated lonely start could do the trick, religion and I guess you need one is a pain a though. Also on lonely starts I tend to get thin on resources, which hurts happiness especially.
Playing Lizzie and Britain, maybe a bit hard combo for early game. The games I have survived I have invariably lost at space race.
Perhaps a carefully culitvated lonely start could do the trick, religion and I guess you need one is a pain a though. Also on lonely starts I tend to get thin on resources, which hurts happiness especially.
Playing Lizzie and Britain, maybe a bit hard combo for early game. The games I have survived I have invariably lost at space race.
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