WeirdoJoker
King
Just suffered a Diplomatic defeat playing Spain (Standard map, Archipelago, Regent). Problems were:
1) I felt handicapped by being primarily on tundra from the beginning, and by the time I was able to expand elsewhere (a later successful war vs. the Iroquois; not counting my defeat of the Celts, who were also mostly on tundra) it was pretty much too late.
2) It also would have helped had I tried for a Cultural victory from the start, but I misled myself somehow into thinking I was militaristic/seafaring instead of religious/seafaring, so I kind of sunk myself on both counts. I had retired the Celts and Iroquois, and was more than 1/2-way through the Egyptians when the loss came in, but probably could not have taken out any of the others at that point.
3) Because of low commerce, research took relatively forever, such that though I was able to catch up & keep up into the industrial age, several AI civs started to overtake me, and by the modern age their research buried me. I would have easily lost the space race to France, had France not won the Diplomatic victory (it had, incidentally, also built the UN).
So, for my next game(s), especially as Spain: how does one deal with being stuck on tundra? I imagine it would involve settling/conquering further toward the equator and moving the capital there, but that's all I can think of. If successful, that might solve the other problems (along with proper use of the selected civ, which woiuld help), but I'm not sure how else to go about it.
(Next game will be Tiny map, continents, Greece, for the space race, so I'll have time to try Spain again later.)
1) I felt handicapped by being primarily on tundra from the beginning, and by the time I was able to expand elsewhere (a later successful war vs. the Iroquois; not counting my defeat of the Celts, who were also mostly on tundra) it was pretty much too late.
2) It also would have helped had I tried for a Cultural victory from the start, but I misled myself somehow into thinking I was militaristic/seafaring instead of religious/seafaring, so I kind of sunk myself on both counts. I had retired the Celts and Iroquois, and was more than 1/2-way through the Egyptians when the loss came in, but probably could not have taken out any of the others at that point.
3) Because of low commerce, research took relatively forever, such that though I was able to catch up & keep up into the industrial age, several AI civs started to overtake me, and by the modern age their research buried me. I would have easily lost the space race to France, had France not won the Diplomatic victory (it had, incidentally, also built the UN).
So, for my next game(s), especially as Spain: how does one deal with being stuck on tundra? I imagine it would involve settling/conquering further toward the equator and moving the capital there, but that's all I can think of. If successful, that might solve the other problems (along with proper use of the selected civ, which woiuld help), but I'm not sure how else to go about it.
(Next game will be Tiny map, continents, Greece, for the space race, so I'll have time to try Spain again later.)