Have you ever finished a game?

[Emptiness]

I thought building effects didn't apply to the second warrens unit?

Bonus XP no, bonus promotions yes. It really should apply all bonuses to both units.

 

[cypher132]

I've finished about a quarter of my games. I've gotten a religious victory with the Grigori by capturing the holy city of the RoK and spread it like crazy. I've won conquest with the Clan of Embers, Doviello, Infernals, Elohim (For funsies), and Amurites. I've also played the Hippus to the point where I vassalized every other civ except the Infernals. I considered that a win.

 

[HadesScorn]

They don't, but having a spare unit you can sacrifice as needed in combat is quite nice for rapidly increasing the AC with just 'garrison' units.

 

[Snarks]

I would say 95% of the games I've played are multiplayer. I would say only about 5% of the games we play ever get load up again and played. Aside from that, we've never actually finished any of them. The game just gets boring towards the end with super power houses in all the major powers that tends to halt anykind of quick war to a slow stagnant one.

 

[JonathanStrange]

The winning screen, btw, is dull and losing is just a quick "adios compadres" blip. So you're not missing much to those who never finished a game.

 

[Kranden]

I usually play on normal sized maps, single continent and scaling difficulty starting at Monarch which gets to deity fast. Starting on Diety is nearly impossible and you will just get owned hard. This helps keep the battles insane. And yes it is possible to win, I just won a game with Clan on deity fighting 4 civs at once by using choke points and using Mardero with a 50% conversion chance to capture all of the enemy heroes and armies. Steal a vampire and it becomes even better! Just remember not to give up when the odds are stacked against you. Plan out defensive positions and burn cities you know you cannot keep. Move fast and burn vital points and fall back when needed.

 

[Tielby]

I probably finish only about 5% of my games. The rest of the time, a save-breaking patch comes along before I get to the end (huge maps but on quick speed) or I take a break from it for a week or two and decide it's not worth trying to remember what all my plans were.

And I USED to be proud of my 2 ToM victories... until I read this thread.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Of course I have,


Finished is another word for "lost," right?

 

[Dumanios]

I don't remember finishing any non-scenarios.

 

[cyther]

I have one a few games. If scenarios don't count the number is under ten.

 

[Switchblock]

It depends on what type of game I'm playing.

If I want to use a specific civ with a strategy, I go for the role-playing aspect and make huge maps with all the fun little flavor options checked (more events and such).

If I feel like going for a win I make everything random and then take what I get to go for a victory that meshes with the civ.

 

[Onionsoilder]

I have 7 completed games in my high score list:

Two of them were an authentic Conquest wins, once as Basium and once as Tasunke. Both on Small maps.
One was a pseudo-win, as the Lanun. It was a large map, I was the undisputed world leader, but I was far from a conquest win. I did, however, have a lot of land and more than enough population for Domination, so I opened Worldbuilder and gave myself enough land for Domination.
4 were straight-up losses. I just got steamrolled so bad in these, I didn't realize I was loosing until I got the game over message.

 

[Taalen]

Very rarely. I play on huge maps with loads of civs and never aim to win a game. I usually just enjoy the ride

 

[arcticnightwolf]

well ... once i won duel map with hippus against 2 ai's on noble difficulty ... i'm too lazy

 

[Iskar Jarak]

I won one game, but I don't count it as a victory because I didn't actually do anything, just sat there on an island till I had won a religious victory. Usually a new patch comes out or I'll get tired.

 

[cthom]

slight bump....

just finished my first game. co-incidentally a domination win, on the fall further modmod....

 

[JonathanStrange]

So what's preventing you all from reaching the finish?? Is it that the map you play are big? Is the endgame boring?

I like to sometimes set the option "Lowest scoring player gets eliminated every X turns" so as to make the game less of a chore as the game progresses.

 

[Andostre]

I actually just beat my first game a couple hours ago.

Normally, I get stuck in a war with someone and I start to turtle and the war never goes anywhere. Or sometimes I focus on building my civ and start to do really well at the neglect of my defense, and then when a rival nation comes in with an overwhelming army, I get annoyed at seeing all of my hard work go down the drain, and I don't feel like completely shifting my focus to build an army just to get back to where I was. In both cases, it's much more fun to just start over and try a different civ and map.

This time, however, I sort of stacked the deck in my favor and chose the Luchuirp and a Highlands map. I'm doing my normal builder thing when I encounter the Hippus, and they ask me to declare war on their rival, the Illians. I say yes so that they like me more, but I really don't change my focus, much. Suddenly, my army tech is heads and shoulders above the Illians without even trying, and they're just to the north of me, so I send a bunch of trebuchets and champions up and just steamroll them. I keep almost all of his cities for myself, and by the time I wipe the Illians out, I'm such a powerhouse that the Hippus to my West and then the Malakim to my East want to become my vassals.

This is around turn 250, and I'm the only nation that has founded a religion, so I start sending my Thanes of Kilmorph to every nation that I have an open borders agreement with (all except one), wipe out a couple barbarian cities, and win a Religious victory before turn 300.

So, my first victory and my first completed game! It was fun.

 

[Worm4life]

So what's preventing you all from reaching the finish?? Is it that the map you play are big? Is the endgame boring?

I like to sometimes set the option "Lowest scoring player gets eliminated every X turns" so as to make the game less of a chore as the game progresses.

Turn slowdown usually. It gets to the point where it takes 20 seconds to calculate a turn and it just gets to be too much waiting around.

Just went back and tried my first game of Beyond the Sword in years and WOW do the turns go a lot faster.

 

[Onionsoilder]

I have 7 completed games in my high score list:

Two of them were an authentic Conquest wins, once as Basium and once as Tasunke. Both on Small maps.
One was a pseudo-win, as the Lanun. It was a large map, I was the undisputed world leader, but I was far from a conquest win. I did, however, have a lot of land and more than enough population for Domination, so I opened Worldbuilder and gave myself enough land for Domination.
4 were straight-up losses. I just got steamrolled so bad in these, I didn't realize I was loosing until I got the game over message.

Heh, add one more pseudo-win to that. I was dominating in a Baslerph game as Perpentach. Hemah was dominating everyone either through water elemental spam or mind control puppets. Hyborem and Basium both killed by his hand. However, I didn't feel like waiting 220 turns to get my cities to Legendary, so I figured several Great Bards would like to sing about Hemah's great accomplishments.

That makes it 2 Wins, 2 Pesudo Wins, 4 Losses, and ~10 unfinished games.