Interesting Screenshots

[AutomatedTeller]

He's got 300+ modern armor. My guess is that he's got a lot of them in armies.

Basically, he'll make mincemeat of those 941 infantry, though his mouse finger might get tired!!

 

[Quintillus]

^That's what I was going to say, too (to the nukes, I'm becoming a more skilled crossposted apparently).

If you are planning a traditional invasion, I'm interested to hear how it goes. With hundreds of bombers you should be OK, so long as you bomb enough beforehand that the Aztec Cavalry can't reach you in one turn - then just land and bomb all the Cavalry as they approach your troops.

Even then, though, some Cavalry will inevitably get through to attack, and even with more turns to bomb them some Infantry and Guerillas will make it through. And that screenshot only shows 2011 units...I hesitate to ask what the other 1600 are? If they're bombers you may well be toast in a traditional invasion even if your Modern Armor are in armies.

 

[psweetman1590]

^^^Not if he brings 4 Mobil SAMs with his first stack.

 

[Taras Bulba]

Espionage, and ICBMs BABY!

bomb lots of cities, and watch as their numbers go down very quickly

i would get about 15 ICBM's while trying to get a spy over there, to see which cities have alot of units

then nuke those cities. As they send over units in boats, try to attack them to kill them, don't make an assault on their mainland yet. It would be pretty difficult unless you had all 300 some of your MA go at the same time

 

[vmxa]

Yes this no domination, not enough punishment. I have 72 armies. 4 MI and 68 MA armies. I landed all, but 6 of them on their mainland and the others on a small island.

That island has their only Uranium, I have cut it long ago. They have no workers as is common in late stage game on Sid, they cannot afford them.

I am not planning on any nukes here, but I may build a few in case I get in trouble.

It seems they ran out of workers before they got Steam as I do not see rails. This means they cannot rush in all their units at once. Still it could get rough. I had a few smallish (40-60) stacks redline an MA army. It retreated and they could not reach it.

So it is not impossible they could get enough units to kill me, but I doubt they will. I surrounded a stack of about 800 infanty and others on one civ and left them to vanish after I killed off their towns.

I cut their oil, also on that small island, so they do not have bombers, but did get 72 tanks build before I chopped the oil. The real hard nut is going to the 300+ ToW. They are tougher than infantry. He knowns Computers, but has no mechs. I think they need oil, I forget right now.

They have not sent out a boat in a long time, none are availble. I guess they decided to not make any, since way back with caravels.

In short they are not able to do anything, except Banzi me and hope. I have seen what MI armies in a hill town, with a wall and a civil defense can absorb, so it should be fun.

Anyway once they spend their wad, I can cook of any metro. I have taken a few down with over 100 units in them already. 50 ma armies can do that. By then I will have the other armies over and probably 8 or 10 more armies.

As was mentioned, it will be a finger cruncher, but I wanted to see how it goes with so many units. Oh, and I brough along about 50 radar arties and have about 40 bombers.

These are just to soften metro's or hit any retreat units. I also will send over 40 or so elite cavs for mop up of the damaged units. I do not have many MA's outside of armies and I am not making much a few every other turn.

 

[vmxa]

Have you turned off domination victory?

I often will play with only conquest on as the only way the AI can win is to eliminate me, which it does at times. Culture all you have to do is not eliminate the number 2 civ, until you get to within half of the leaders. That is no sweat late in the game with so much of the land your.

I probably have 300 or so cities now. Enough culture to get by. UN you can build and stop any lose there and often the will not have anyone to vote for them anyway.

Domination, I have never had them come close, they are not able to take out others well at Sid as all have lots of units.

So I figure I am not depriving the AI of a shot at winning by turning them off.

Space launch, I forgot that one, but again by that point you should be the one in charge and could do that if you wanted. You can always either sabbatoge theirs or cut the Uranium.

 

[psweetman1590]

Well now, sounds like it didn't go so badly after all. That's darned impressive, VMXA.

 

[dariusII]

I found myself in a conumdrum near the end of this Conquests games as I had made a couple of trade deals and a ROP with the Dutch, just before they collapsed as a result of the other civ ganging up on them. In order to stave off a major rep hit, I blocked land access to their last city from Portugal (purple), America (red), Egypt (yellow) and the Celts (green). It was kind of funny watching them swarm and build up their forces but unable to do anything.

 

[Taras Bulba]

haha, for the sake of the dutch, lets hope they don't bring in any marines

 

[Lord Emsworth]

I found myself in a conumdrum near the end of this Conquests games as I had made a couple of trade deals and a ROP with the Dutch, just before they collapsed as a result of the other civ ganging up on them. In order to stave off a major rep hit, I blocked land access to their last city from Portugal (purple), America (red), Egypt (yellow) and the Celts (green). It was kind of funny watching them swarm and build up their forces but unable to do anything.

You could just have gifted them one of your irrelevant cities.

 

[choxorn]

Don't they have Marines?

 

[LLXerxes]

Don't they have Marines?

Any available landing spots are guarded by 2 modern armors. I don't know if the AI would realize that, but 8 attacking a fortified 16 would be a massacre.

 

[vmxa]

I have had marines kill mechs in a town, so you can never be sure. Just be sure you have more units in place in any town than they can kill in one turn.

 

[choxorn]

Uh... The Marines could just walk into Hilversum...

 

[Theryman]

Yea, 1S of the city is a roman (red? I think it is actually America) ship, from where the marines can just march into the city.

 

[choxorn]

Figure out what's wrong with this picture (besides the fact that I am disbanding a slave worker):

 

[mythmonster2]

The fact that it says "our people"?

 

[choxorn]

Indeed. Mayans are usually not Romans. Now excuse me while I fire my domestic advisor.

 

[Goldfool]

The fact that it says "our people"?

Good one,

BTW why would you disband a no cost worker anyway.

 

[vmxa]

Just because you do not feel like dragging to some other place? I do that at times, usually because I already have hundreds of slaves parked around the globe.