Invasions and expansion????

[Jade]

I read the D-day thread (strategic tips or something like that) about how to suucesfully invade another continent an submit a civilization. It grew more and more into a discussion of how to expand through conquest.
:soldier:

Anyhow, the mass at the forum was saying: well yeah, just get 40 or 50 cities into smooth production and you'll have your 100-unit-army ready in no-time. Excuse me WHAT if you got 20 cities tops, like any normal civ would?

 

[The Last Conformist]

Play on huge maps ...

If you've only got 20 cities, well, any credible target for your expansionism is going to be pretty small too, so you'll be able to do with a smaller invasion force.

 

[Koronin]

I never invade continent to conquer, only to destroy.

Reason being, is that I don't like having a handful of essentially useless cities producing 1 shield per turn, no matter how large.

Originally posted by Jade
I read the D-day thread (strategic tips or something like that) about how to suucesfully invade another continent an submit a civilization. It grew more and more into a discussion of how to expand through conquest.
:soldier:

Anyhow, the mass at the forum was saying: well yeah, just get 40 or 50 cities into smooth production and you'll have your 100-unit-army ready in no-time. Excuse me WHAT if you got 20 cities tops, like any normal civ would?

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

They aren't completely useless all the time, it depends on FP and how close your home continent is. I have managed an empire on two continents before. I have able to produce 2 Wonders on the second contient with production. Also if you control a contenint or island, no matter how large or small, it is one place your enemies dont have.

 

[Jade]

Darn, just 2 continents? I was planning for world hegemony! That's a load of excess 'we love the president' billboards. What am I gonna do with them?

 

[The Last Conformist]

If you're out for world conquest, it's generally easier to simply reduce the other continents to ashes than actually conquering them, since making the cities on them productive will be very costly and time-consuming.

Still, the actual tactics are pretty much the same as if you're out to annex another continent to your empire (except that you won't what to bring as much defensive units with your invasional forces). In particular, you'll very much want to have one city with an airport on each continent.