Maps without navy

[amit9up]

I dont like making navy. Or atleast not right now when I am trying to improve my land game. So I usually play Pangaea. Other than that which other maps dont require much of a navy. Basically I dont want to go settle on some other continent.

Does continents suit the criteria?

 

[helemaalnicks]

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/reference/map_scripts_guide.php

All maps described. To answer your question:

highlands, lakes, great planes, oasis. You also don't NEED navy on inland sea, but it could be usefull to gear one up.

I advice great planes, I think that's the american style landscape, with lots of production/tundra, and sick amounts of beef.

 

[Bleys]

You wont like any of the random map choosers then, because over half the maps have a decent amount of water. Continents will be fine for half the game, and if you take over your own continent completely, its usually enough land to peacefully tech into space, but if you want a true "navy not needed" map, go for Pangaea.

 

[DMOC]

Pangea as mentioned above is probably the best choice. I don't like maps like Inland Sea because they have this awful rectangular border at the outer edges of the screen.

Just make sure you don't pick someone who has a naval UU unless you're not planning on utilizing them.

 

[helemaalnicks]

small - pangea, rest standard would be good for learning. Then move to small - continents, then to normal continents. That way, you're slowly putting more navy in your game. The more water, the earlier you want to tech astronomy.

 

[amit9up]

Problem with Pangaea is, I hate being surrounded by 5-6 AI which happens a lot . Hence looking for alternatives

 

[helemaalnicks]

1. You don't want to be surrounded
2. You don't want to play with navy

I say, go pangea anyway, and make killing all AI's priority .

Seriously though, the higher the difficulty, the more the AI will be blocking you in. Try building blocking cities, never expand toward the coast on pangea with your first city (unless if you're blocking someone off), and if you're boxed in to 3-4 cities anyway, you kinda have to get rich of the blocker, with either horses (chariot-horse archer) or metal (axes-swords).

 

[Skallagrimson]

Problem with Pangaea is, I hate being surrounded by 5-6 AI which happens a lot . Hence looking for alternatives

Continents, late war, space race.