Playing The World Map Today

XDrake

Chieftain
Joined
Aug 20, 2006
Messages
72
I like the world map now and then not because of it being the globe, but seeing the same map have so many variations.

Today I am going to play and post the growth of my Civilization. I want to live peacefully tis scenerio. Although war will eventually happen I am sure.

I have founded my capital in Central America so I can build a fortress on the one square to protect myself from future advances by the Americans.

01.JPG
 
I have began building furiously. Although it may seem slow I have advanced nicely technologically compared to the rest of the world. This may give me the arch to let me stay powerful enoug to defend myself as America rises in the north.

They are up to probably 5 cities by now. I have not visited them in 1500 years so they probably have advanced further. They have send the occassional soldier down south and have once threatened me for technology but backed down.

I went north with two Chariots and stole all of the tribal squares from them. I have fortified the fortress more by planting trees under it and giving it more defensive strength.

Soon as construction rolls in I will make a fortress there and fill it with Phalanx.

No war is in sight for now. Altough no Civilizations have been killed but the Zulus are building many wonders. I think they will be the ones to take Europe, Asia, and Africa.

02.JPG
 
I have been attacked, but not from where I expected. Landing outside of Drake Tower two Russian units unloaded and demanded money. Ever since the Zulus started being quiet and not building Wonders the Russians have been doing so, stealing the Pyramids from me a few turns before completion.

I didn't restart so I could have them since I want to see how things roll.

I figured if one ship comes more will follow, so I best investigate why he is disinterested in his part of the world enough to bother me. Perhaps through diplomacy and one sneak attack on his capital to force a civil war I can keep him busy for a while.

Strangely no civilizations are dead yet. Perhaps he has them at bay and they need assistance?

03.JPG
 
Interesting stuff, keep in coming! :goodjob:
 
Russia has not handed on my shores again but definately is the dominating force in the world. The English are trapped on their isle with a plentiful city and many units but no hope for now since Europe has been taken by Stalin.

The French died as I arrived and now Russia is blocked from accessing Africa because of Shaka's blockade. I want to access all of Shaka's land and explore Asia before I take sides.

America talks to me very little but has lost room to grow. It is building up irrigation and roads now and I suspect won't attempt anything for another millenium. I am more powerful right now.

Now that I have expanded, perhaps a colonies on Cuba, Madagascar, and and isles above Russia? They would be nice ports for diplomacy and interventon in Europe.

If one nation becomes more powerful than the others I know a real war will happen eventually.

04.JPG

05.JPG

06.JPG
 
Somehow in my expansion I have lost the technological edge. As I just now can build my fortress with the technology of construction I see the Russians with railroads and iron clads. They are ahead of the Zulus, but the Zulu seem more numerous still.

Americans have started talking to me saying they are disappointed with my attitude. Even a couple notices saying they are pleased with prosperity between us, which is sometimes a precursor to war.

I would like to intervene slightly in Europe to break up the powerful Soviet Empire but America is starting to hang around at my fortress with knights looking hungry.

I may sack Moscow for now and take railroad and divide Russia. That should break Russia's edge and give them an equal enemy in the technology field.

With railroad I can move phalanx from any city to my fortress in one turn and stop any chance of them overtaking it.

07.JPG

08.JPG

09.JPG
 
I could not patch things up so easily with the Russians. They broke into two empires, the Russians of Eurasia and the French of Asia. The French took Moscow after I sacked it and I retook it for more technology. I took Railroad and Gunpower to make myself better defensively. I lacked any diplomats to force peace, but have landed some in Africa to make peace with both parties.

Just as I though I made Eurasia and Africa's power struggle balanced the Russians have blasted away with canons at the defenses of the Zulus. They have not taken any cities but are now passing the Nile.

The Russians are at peace with the inactive French. I need better exploring in Asia to see how powerful they are. If the Russians to start taking Zulus cities I can sack their new capital and break them again. Africa has many ports so close to me that if the Russians or any powerful nation takes it I will be swimming with enemies.

America has ignored me and continued to build. I think with my latest technology and building of musketeers I am not easy prey.

10.JPG

11.JPG
 
Russia is invading Africa with full force. The Zulus are maintaining wonderfully dispite Russian cannons. They have defended the Suez region with ironclads for many turns. Only now did they crush the Zulus ships.

Knights are flooding Eqypt now. The Russians made peace with me dispite me telling them I did not want to make war with Zulus.

I want to convince the French to grant peace but I will move some sleeper units on a ship near the new Russian capital. I need to establish an embassy with them finally to keep track. The same with the French.

If they overpower the cities letting him truly set a footprint there I will break the Russians once again. Those ports on the West African coast are extremely dangerous to the Americas.

12.JPG
 
It looks no different, but they are sending an endless wave into Africa. The Zulus knights are forcing them back and they have not managed to touch the cities yet. I cannot move more diplomats into Eurasia until the onslaught stops.
 
Russia has taken two north African towns with their latest invention... The Armor unit. They have punished the French with destroying one of their towns and beginning to rain death on them.

I am unsure how to respond. I am moving some Chariots behind some Zulus cities that will se invaders soon. If I can retake the near empty city and steal armor I can smash the new Russian capital of Kiev and free the Zulus from danger for now.
 
The saga continues as I rethink my strategy today.

Russia is broken once again. The Indians occupy northern Africa and the West African ports that I fear the Russians taking. I need a constant war over there to keep my people out of danger.

I have made peace with all nations but have decided to leave the three continents be. I will keep building Port Africa and make an intercession force in case I change my mind, but if once nation takes over I can break them after they take all of the continent.

Russia is crushing their enemies to quickly. I have little hope for the Indians since they have taken all the former Zulus cities. They lack factories and the production back bone that Russia has.

The Indians once had cities in Asia, but Russia crushed them before they could make a buzz. The French have only a couple remaining cities and the Indians only bought them time to build their defenses behind the mountians dividing India from Persia. French conscripts and mech infantry keep fortifying parts of the mountian and holding it well. Eventually they will be overrun so Russia can concentrate on Africa.

India has made peace with the Zulus and has shared a lot of technology with them. Zulus may have time to build a production monster since the Indians make a fine buffer between them and the Russians. They even took back two of their cities from the Russians.

The English are still active dispite no success. They will land sail boats in strange places in Europe and Eurasia. They even landed one in northern Africa. I noticed an empty sail in the Indian Ocean and hope perhaps they have landed around Aussie Land.

The Americans are the most impressive. Dispite being quiet and pretending I do not exist they have landed frigates of soldiers in Europe three times. Once period saw peace between them and the Russians. They fortified outside of Paris and obstained so much technology they are surpassing me.

Investigating three random regional cities in North America I discovered they are doing very well. They are in truth a production giant I should fear if they were interested in me.

13.JPG

14.JPG
 
What I suspected is slowly becoming true. Russia has attacked me unprovolked with bombers when I least suspected it. Sending diplomats and some armor to Europe I lurk outside of his capital and obtained peace with him at no charge. The United Nations wonder has paid off!

Russia destroyed the French and Indians. It has returned to them and the Zulus, which the Zulus are slowly losing. They have forced peace with Russia three times now and keep doing so, stalling the inevitable.

Zulus has improved their cities according to intelligence gathered by diplomats via Port Africa on Madagascar. They now have factories and produce all weapons... Including te latest development.

Nuclear weapons.

The Zulus have made two missles while the Russians are stockpiling them in Europe. They both are eager to kill one another.

I landed diplomats in England and traded England some old technologies I skipped of Monarchy and Chivalry for Armor and Conscription. They also demanded Gunpower which I gave proudly.

America has done something they never have. They have approched my fortress with mech infantry and fortified, telling me they are displeased with my disrespectful attitude.

Russia bombed Drake Tower with bombers from West Africa. I now have to act and break their civilization again.

The tactic has worked in a way I did not expect. The constant war has destroyed two of the ports, which will take forever for them to ever want to build there again since their efforts are pushing into Asia, not Africa. If I can make them keep attacking and destroying the ports I will not have to send my transport of armors over to destroy the cities by taking them then retreating, only to retake them till they are destroyed.

15.JPG
 
America has made an unexpected move and invaded Africa with success. Taking one of the West Africa port cities I think they have began moving into Africa. I think this is a fine time to break Russia so the Americans can establish themselves.
 
The Americans landed in Western Africa and took a Zulus port and two Russian cities. By landing two armor and blocking the Sinai Pennisula I kept reinforcements from Russia from pouring in.

I had broken the Russians earlier and they gobbled up their French rebels. The Zulus defeated the French occupying former Zulu cities. The Zulus reclaimed central Africa and tried to reclaim the north west around Morroco. That was until hell broke loose.

The Zulus attacked the last Russian city with a nuclear unit. The Americans took the city and began their long war with the Zulus. They more commonly destroyed cities instead of holding them for a long time.

The Americans founded Baltimore in the few non-desert squares in the middle of the desert. The Zulus hit them with another nuclear and they did something I never have seen a civilization do.

They shot four nuclears in one turn. And out of nowhere came a Russian nuclear from Saudi Arabia. It hit the Zulus.

Weather began threatening global warming so I landed three diplomats and three settlers to clean up. Damage was already being done to the land from global warming.

I was cleaning around Zimbabwe when Americans nuked the city again.

Weighing my options I sent three transports of Armor and Artillery to force the war to a stop. I destroyed the West African ports so I would never be troubled again and unblocked access from Eurasia, letting the Russians come in thinking it would stop the madness.

The Americans were attacked by the Russians and responded with a nuclear unit hitting Europe from England which they took a while ago.

After taking Baltimore so I could destroy all the cities in Africa and prevent Russian war in the future, I was attacked from the north. They began hitting my barrier with all they had but with over 35 conscripts and armor in that fortress it was a lost cause.

As I left Baltimore the city was nuked by the the Zulus. I suffered so many casualties against walled Zulus cities that I was sending more boats of soldiers. By then there were at least 20 pollution squares.

It didn't help when the Russians attacked me too as I fought the Zulus. They began the biggest bombing attack I have even seen in Civilization from a Zulus city they took. Sending all their air units from Europe and Eurasia they went there via Saudi Arabia and had to have attacked with at least 30 bombers. There was literally nothing left but Port Africa with fresh troops since he bombed all the active units in the cities. I brought across some armor from Port Africa and a half full ship from my continent to take advantage, but the Russians beat me to it.

Making peace I was trying to clean things up but Russia kept attacking my settlers and not making and of their own. I got rid of some of the squares but things were getting worse as Zulus did something that surprised me.

Zulus has landed on Madagascar a few times to annoy Port Africa, but they also went east and landed in Australia. From there they began landing in southeast Asia and taking a few Russian cities. The Russians nucleared them twice.

With a sigh I decided to let the Earth go into nuclear winter. I have the amazon to keep my Civilization alive. I have a great roads system that will help me rebuild after everyone has died out.

The world is going into fall out as Russia and Zulus fight. The Americans and I are at peace again and I have hopes in time their empires will rot away and be humbled into small scattered city states. The Zulus loosely hold the Yellow River in China and without it I am sure the nuclear winter will kill their cities.

My conclusion to this is that even though I won the space race, eventually technology slayed the planet because I let other civilizations thrive dispite bringing them to war with one another. Somehow they were with armor units by the 1600s and nuclear units by the early 1700s. I think constantly fighting and stealing technology from one another made them grow faster.

When they would break into civil wars against Russia the states would pursue other routes that Russia did not and when Russia reclaimed them they stole it back. Americans came and traded and stole many technologies from Europe and Africa.

I see America and Russia coming out of this well. Plenty of rivers. America even has a few rivers on ports, so they will continue dropping units in Africa to cause trouble and help the demise there.

Sadly, I am not powerful enough to kill them all at once like I need to to stop this. I guess millions have to die just so I can win. :(
 
Ooo SHh! This makes me want to fire up civ again! Anybody else feeling this guy's passion?
 
This is the most interesting game description that I can remember reading. Great detail and screen displays. Only thing missing for me is that there were no save files to look at.
XDrake, with your gift for description you should play some GameOfTheMonth games.

Thanks, very entertaining! I’m looking forward to the next installment.
You make this a better place, a few more people like you would certainly liven up the CIV I forum.
 
I adore Civilization I. It is probably still one of the most unique AI's I have ever met. The passion associated with fighting some hopeless wars for survival or manipulating other nations into wars with others so you can trump them.

Falling behind and catching up...

The beauty is the map generation though. Never the same game even on World Map. Fear of the Greeks or English finding you first in a small continents scenerio and leading a bloody island fighting war or Mongols overrunning giant continent after continent .

How some civilizations act when you are really weak and exploit you and others will not dare attack you.

If anyone desires the saved game just AIM me at Tux009 and I will send it to you. I don't have a place to upload it and the attachment tool on the forum won't work.

I will send you the same a few years before the first nuclear war begins. I replayed it a little and prevented it by storming Zimbabwe and breaking the will for them to fire missles in defense. At least it worked when I played it the second time.

You are behind in technology and need to catch up, by the way... :) You'll see what I mean when you more armors with Frigates.

I hope one day somebody will figure out the coding so I can edit WinCiv maps. :( I have so many games on an old zip disk that could use a lost continent rising from the ocean.
 
Am I crazy or do those units look different? Are you using some kind of mod or new version or civ?
 
Back
Top Bottom