New Variant: Highlander

[budweiser]

Here is a new variant I just invented. The rule is you can only build cities on hills. You will never look at terrain the same again. You can only keep captured cities if they are on a hill. You can keep culture flips on flat land. I suggest turning barbs off or else too much open land will get you a flood of barbs.

I tried this last night with the Celts, who else? It was standard monarch continent. I was lucky and got two gold mines plus flood plains right next to my hill. It was ironless though and I had to attack to secure iron. That must have put off my GA a bit, but even so I crippled two civs and am working on the third just as my GA ended.

So, depending on the terrain, the difficulty factor can be low, but the coolness factor is very high.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Usually, a 'Highlander' variant for other games means you can always have only one of a kind - one Warrior, one Spear,...
Dunno if that's doable in Civ at all, though.
What you're describing is pretty much standard strategy for RaR games, at least Always War RaR games.

 

[budweiser]

Why only one of a kind Doc?

I didn't know about RaR. I am sort of a purist.

 

[Doc Tsiolkovski]

Highlander

There can be only one.