Last night during my current Emperor game as England, Montezuma (my neighbor) called me out and said he noticed my units near his borders (which were only there for defense against this lunatic) and to stop hiding in the shadows like a child and fight him.
Well that kinda annoyed me, and against my gameplan, I chose the option that declares war on him, lol. I didn't care that he got his first shots on me, I just wanted to make him pay and to teach him not to talk to the queen that way.
Luckily I had lots of horses and already started producing horsemen. It was pretty much an archer, spearman, horseman war with some swordsmen. He chose to use a lot of jaguars though, which I learned were only an upgrade to lowly warriors.
Anyway, I only took a few scrub cities of his and razed them because I didn't like the location. But mostly, I pillaged him empire badly.
OMG... it is so satisfying in this game!! When you pillage their terrain you just don't just hear a quick thump sound and it disappears like in Civ 4. It gets a "damaged" graphic and black smoke rises up from it, as all of you probably know already. But when you go around pillaging multiple hexes, the visual effect is very awesome!
Once the war was over, and Montezuma begged for peace, I looked back at the devastation I caused and the black smoke rising up from everywhere and was just like, "WOW...".
Oh, and I also got some nice chunks of change from those pillaged hexes! It's very worthwhile. It helped me purchase settlers afterwards to occupy the empty territory.
Well that kinda annoyed me, and against my gameplan, I chose the option that declares war on him, lol. I didn't care that he got his first shots on me, I just wanted to make him pay and to teach him not to talk to the queen that way.
Luckily I had lots of horses and already started producing horsemen. It was pretty much an archer, spearman, horseman war with some swordsmen. He chose to use a lot of jaguars though, which I learned were only an upgrade to lowly warriors.
Anyway, I only took a few scrub cities of his and razed them because I didn't like the location. But mostly, I pillaged him empire badly.
OMG... it is so satisfying in this game!! When you pillage their terrain you just don't just hear a quick thump sound and it disappears like in Civ 4. It gets a "damaged" graphic and black smoke rises up from it, as all of you probably know already. But when you go around pillaging multiple hexes, the visual effect is very awesome!
Once the war was over, and Montezuma begged for peace, I looked back at the devastation I caused and the black smoke rising up from everywhere and was just like, "WOW...".
Oh, and I also got some nice chunks of change from those pillaged hexes! It's very worthwhile. It helped me purchase settlers afterwards to occupy the empty territory.
Is the payoff pretty decent?
