How should we win?

[Philosopher12]

Based on the "Have we decided how to win?" Thread starter by Mordhiem, I have decided to post a poll on wiether to win by SS or conquest. This thread is a bit premature, but I predict it will develop as we near the end of the game. So, anyone that has opinions, post them here!

 

[duke o' york]

You're right - it is premature. I will base my decision on the locations and relative technological advancement of the AI civilisations. If we can get them with a clean sweep early on then conquest would definitely be the way forward but if they are already well established then we should leave it and wait until they will be overcome easily by our superior troops and production. Too early to say now though.

 

[ainwood]

Me too. Too early! Although conquest is much more fun generally, I find that in higher level games, if you don't get them early, you don't get them at all.

I would therefore suggest that we change this poll to reflect whether we generally want to go after early conquest - in which case we need some more military units - or just concentrate on settling and improving our continent.

 

[MonkE]

Early conquest (erxcept for near neighbors) is difficult for me because I mostly go for science rather than military. I don't like losing units or wars of attrition. I prefer to attack either gradually (subversion) or overwhelmingly (howitzers!).

Usually I crush the other civs and build the spaceship. Troublemakers get destroyed completely. Deity level AI will have to be waaaaaaay better than Emperor level AI for them to give us much trouble.

 

[duke o' york]

Call me too careful but I'd prefer to wait until we get crusaders before we set off on a killing spree. Unless I bother to build vet elephants in preparation or just get lucky at the start and take out a couple of other civs then I won't even consider conquest before crusaders.

 

[Dell19]

Leave the decision till later but it would be nice to have a poll on our future government Communism