I need help defeating my enemies!!!

[MaMort]

I just started playing CivIII and I don't know how to make my guys stronger in the game!? And how do you take over your enemies? They did it to me and it pissed me off!!! And it keeps saying my treasury or gold or something is low...how do I aquire more money!?!? Please give me some basic tips!!! thanks!

 

[AA-battery]

Holy n00bers! Well here are some tips:

1. Building roads and having a citizen of a city workin the tile with a road increases money. Build lots of roads and other improvements to help you in the game.

2. To make your units (or as you call them "guys") stronger by getting the resources and the technology you need to upgrade them. If your not sure what you need for a specific unit, then check the Civilopedia.

3. This one should be #1 actually. But to take over your enemies you must destroy their units. Do do so click the unit and move it on the enemy unit's position. To have your unit take over a city move the unit on the city. It's as simple as that.

5. If your gold is getting low that means that you don't have enough to support your units and city improvements. Follow step number one.

Oh, and by the way, welcome to Civilization Fanatics Forums!

 

[John Lenin]

F1 will show you your 'home screen', where you can adjust your taxation & luxuries to bring in more money as required. If you're already aware of this screen and still losing money, then you need to build improvements in your cities like Temples and Colosseums to keep your citizens happy and working (and producing gold), or marketplaces and banks to actively improve your economy. On the city screen, the list of possible improvements can be right-clicked on to show all the information, without having to go direct to the civilopedia.

I'm quite new to Civ3 as well, and found this important difference from Civ2: you need a huge military. In my current game I kept on good terms with all the other civs, as I'd had a bad start and needed peace to catch up with them. When I did catch up with them, and was on the verge of building The Internet, my closest neighbour attacked me, triggering mutual protection pacts and creating a massive world war. Fortunately I'd also sat and watched, in previous games, as the AI's hundreds of units had conquered me, so I had built up my military, and was able to fend off the first attacks, and even take some territory.

Stick with Civ3 and you shall be rewarded! This is pure gaming heroin.

 

[MaMort]

wow, thanks!

 

[rajwhitehall]

I just started playing CivIII and I don't know how to make my guys stronger in the game!? And how do you take over your enemies? They did it to me and it pissed me off!!! And it keeps saying my treasury or gold or something is low...how do I aquire more money!?!? Please give me some basic tips!!! thanks!

Hi!

Sounds like you're most interested in successful combat.

1. Veteran units rock vs regular units. Try to build a barracks in any city before you start building military units there. Militaristic civs can have a barracks in any city, non militaristic civs can focus a few cities on military units and move them to other cities in the empire (though this is a tedius method!). And you can only upgrade units in a city with a barracks.

2. Corollary: rush-build barracks in newly conquered cities so you can upgrade your fighting units (only possible in a city with barracks). Often the units in the front lines end up being archaic (but veteran or elite) due to a tech advance made since your invasion was launched. Don't waste them attacking enemies that are your technological superior, upgrade them first.

3. When invading I build cities right after I invade enemy territory to serve a as a base of operations/fallback position. Rush-build barracks & walls in these cities, and harbor if on a coast. Plan on abandoning these later.

4. I second the comment by John Lenin that you need a huge military. Ancient age = 2 ground units + 2 catapults per city; Middle Ages 4 ground units + 4 cannon per city, modern ages, 6-8 ground units + 6-8 artillery per city. That's at peacetime. If planning a war, double those numbers, and start moving units toward the expected front line (or ports) early.

5. You not only need a large number of ground units and bombard units to win a war, but you MUST keep a supply of reserves coming until you achieve victory. Nothing more frustrating than to arrive at that last city with insufficient force to take it.

6. Soften up enemy cities with lots of artillery to knock defenders down from full strength. You can actually increase a defender's strength by attacking unsuccessfully and giving them a promotion. Us mobile stacks to run amock in the enemies territory destroying roads, and your infantry stacks backed up by artillery to destroy cities.

7. After bombarding, attack with mobile units first (2 movement points more more) because they can retreat from combat, and deliver the coup de grace with slow units.

8-99: Read the War Academy here.

 

[FinnMcCool]

Thank you Raj, for posting the link to the War Acadamy. Just a brief glance tells me it will be very useful reading!

BTW, I'm curious (based on your handle alone) whether you've designed a custom wonder, "The Taj Mahal"?