Laying Siege to Cities

[dowski]

I think that this is a good strategy for the early parts of the game. If you can pillage improvements around and AI civ's first couple cities and fortify a good defensive unit or two next to them (preferably in good defensive terrain), they will be too scared to send out workers/settlers to improve/build new cities.

You can then build up a good offensive force and take them out. This seems to be a good way to slow down the superfast expansion that the AI performs. I get sick of them sticking a city in every little crack in the borders they can find...

feedback?

-dowski

 

[Daaraa]

Sounds good.
I've just never tried it. I usually set up fortifications along a line. Except it has to be small. I look for a Panama type choke point and no bigger than 5. Kind of like a Maginot Line with no Belgium.
I might try that tactic except I like to suprise the other civs with Blitzes.

 

[dowski]

Originally posted by Daaraa
I might try that tactic except I like to suprise the other civs with Blitzes.

Yeah, I should have emphasized that this seems to be a good early game tactic. In a game I am playing, it helped me to isolate the Indians to 2 cities, and then wipe them out early on.

It might also be good to contain the expansion of an enemy on a new continent that you are both trying to settle.

I guess I just like it because, unlike some of the other strategies I have read about, it seems to have some historical realism to it. Laying seige to cities in ancient times was an effective way to "soften them up" before conquest.

-dowski