How's this for a start?

[DennisS]

Chieftan, English, everything random.

I get a small map, apparently archipelago. The Brits are on the far southern tip of an island/landmass. I build another city, and run into the Zulu.

Uh oh. I convert London to barracks, and start researching bronze working.

I get lucky, iron is close to one of my cities. I run a worker to it, create colony...it is already linked to the road network. I quickly fortify it with two spearman.

HERE COME THE ZULU! Boy...they want this iron! I build four swordsman (vets), and go waste their first city, then their second, then they're not a problem anymore!

I get one swordsman to elite, then he pops an SGL! HOW COOL!

BOOM! Into London he goes, and builds the Pyramids. Sweeeeet!

Not three attacks later, I get ANOTHER leader, this time an MGL!

I only had three cities, but I had a settler being built. I quickly finish it, create my fourth city, and create an army with three swordsman...all veterans.

London is now building the Heroic Epic.

I take the army, and head into the unknown. VERY soon, I run into the Germans. Sheesh....Zulu and the Germans!

I smash Hamburg, and then had to go to work. I'm looking for Berlin!

I am NOT a warmonger...shoot, I suck at this game, but I try! This is the first game I have ever played where I got two great leaders...and to get them this early is amazing.

Here is my question...how the heck to I used my lovely new army most effectively?

Thanks.

 

[ybbor]

I get one swordsman to elite, then he pops an SGL! HOW COOL!

ummm, don't you mean a MGL? a SGL can't be produced by an elite unit

Here is my question...how the heck to I used my lovely new army most effectively?

Thanks.

it depends, are you using conquests or ptw/vannilla civ?

 

[bob rulz]

Also, posting a save would be very helpful.

 

[DennisS]

Well, the first one was Isaac Newton...I THOUGHT he popped as a result of combat, but he may not have.

How ARE the SGL's created, then? Could it have been random, as a result of my research efforts?

Told'ya I was clueless!

 

[ybbor]

whenever your the first in the whole world to research a tech there's a small (3% normally, 5% for scientific civs) chance he will apear in your capital (if you think you got him from combat maybe you captured him from another civ)

to amke use of your army: pillage. in C3C armies can pillage without loss of a movement point. to make it even better, the AI doesn't attack your army unless it's redlined, i'm at war with portuagal right now, and they barelu have a single road ni thier continent, and there's nothing they can do about it. also, pillage all roads surrounding the capital. this will do two things 1)plunge thier empire into corruption because bieng connected to the capital slightly reduces coruption, 2)they can't trade with anyone. also rember, if you decide to go on the offensive and your army becomes yellow (NEVER get it to red, then the AI will attack it and you risk losing it) rember, armies can now heal in enemy terriotory

 

[DennisS]

ybbor, thank you very much.

Isaac Newton DID appear in my capital city, so it must of been as a result of research. This has never happened to me before.

The english start with alphabet, so I was researching immediately towards Republic...this likely got me the tech I needed.

Good inputs on army usage.

As a n00b to the game, I am still in the research stage myself. I have 5 pages of notes, from these forums...and I suspect it will take many attempts to figure out optimal strategies for my style of play.

Heh...my HOF, in #1, is 15545 points...and I have yet to fully complete a game. I choose random civ, and am keeping records on how I do with each. To this point, it appears that ag/rel is the best combo for me.

...unless, of course, that I develop a taste for conquest!

Thanks again.

 

[T-Money]

15554 points? On Cheiftan level? Hmm. Most players don't get that high below Empror-Demi-Sid level.

 

[Gainy]

I think that's a typo

 

[ForTheEmpire]

If not, then hail the new king of scoring

 

[DennisS]

Ermmm....I DID mention that I didn't finish the game, didn't I? Please review my previous post.

Heh heh....I just looked at the HOF, and 10K is the all-time best.

Now that my street cred is shot....

 

[T-Money]

Yeah, but if it's not a typo and you did get 15554 points, and you didn't even finish, that makes it wierder. Not trying to accuse you of anything, but either you're cheating or just very, very good at Civ. I never got above 8900 on Cheiftan level before.

 

[bob rulz]

I've never even gotten above 1500...although I could easily get higher if I went back to Cheiftain

And also, if you're getting a score of 15,554 on Cheiftain, then I suggest you move up.

 

[Gainy]

See, i'm just confused. You say you suck at the game, play on Chieftan difficulty. Fair enough
But what gets me is, you got a score of 15 thousand, 554. That is a beast of a score. To get that, you would have to milk the game like crazy. I'm not even sure this is possible.
Can you confirm you did actually get that score on Chieftan difficulty?

 

[Babbler]

Yes, please post your save file, so we can see for ourseleves.