Post a picture of your empire
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Here's an update from the game I posted about on Page 9. It's now 1850 AD, and pretty much to the point where I'm assured victory, although some of the AI's- Iroquois, Egypt, India, Russia- are pretty strong. Some stuff has changed a lot (The Americans have been totally destroyed, and the Dutch, Persians, Japanese, Mongols, and Celts are coming pretty damn close), and some hasn't changed much at all. For example, the Koreans have managed to evade destruction despite being very, very weak. Here's the minimap:
What's that dark green nation in eastern Siberia?
darski
Regent in Training
Bartleby
Remembers laughter
Here's my empire from one of my ongoing games:
In another couple of turns I'll abandon a lot of the loosely-spaced conquered cities and dump a lot of those settlers and workers to use the space better. At the moment, no more cities can be built, and I kept it like that for a while to stop the AI from building more stuff that I'd have to waste time conquering.
In another couple of turns I'll abandon a lot of the loosely-spaced conquered cities and dump a lot of those settlers and workers to use the space better. At the moment, no more cities can be built, and I kept it like that for a while to stop the AI from building more stuff that I'd have to waste time conquering.
TheOverseer714
Overseer
Must be some long IBT's. How long does one turn take to play?
Bartleby
Remembers laughter
At the moment it's a couple of hours per turn, although a lot of that time is spent scrolling around the map and looking at the advisor screens while I try to remember what I was planning to do.
This is the minimap from my most recent win as Germany on Marla's "Europe" map. After uniting the Austrians, Germans, and Dutch under the German flag and taking a small island from Scandinavia, I was content to simply rule my kingdom -- but everyone kept INVADING me.
That small island I took from Scandinavia was invaded four times by four different powers, despite having an impressive garrison of modern troops at all times. (When I was invaded by three different civs in seven turns, I had five riflemen and three cavalry there.) I had to take Sicily from Carthage and Ireland from the Portuguese, as well as destroying Finland completely. (Because people kept invading me, I razed most of eastern Europe destroying various empires, allowing other, formerly trivial, civs to grow.) The only territory I took were a couple of tundra cities near oil.
The French attacked the Romans, who had helped me in many of my wars against other powers. In the interests of making sure the French didn't gain an empire and in keeping my ally intact, I took over France. France's army was at the gates of Rome, but I orchestrated an alliance that saved Rome from destruction. I captured every French-held Roman city and restored most of them.
Spain landed on my island, so my closest buddies and I destroyed Spain. Spain's betrayal was particularly annoying because they'd helped me destroy the Portuguese. While I was committed to my empire NOT growing overly large, this is where it started to anyway. I decided to keep a couple of the cities I won in Spain for the luxuries. The rest of Spain was dominated by the Romans (who had created a new empire for themselves) and the Celts. The Celts (in southern France) would sneak-attack me, leading to the annexation of the Celts. Algeria -- who owned all of north Africa except for the city of Carthage and Morocco -- attacked Carthage, and I wound up claiming most of the old Carthaginian empire for myself.
The same goes for the Turks. When the game ended by space-race, I was bombing Turkish garrisons into oblivion and then landing paratroopers to take their cities. I also had tactical nukes and ICBMs sitting around, but decided not to use them.
I don't know when or why I acquired Greece. I assume they declared war on me.
That small island I took from Scandinavia was invaded four times by four different powers, despite having an impressive garrison of modern troops at all times. (When I was invaded by three different civs in seven turns, I had five riflemen and three cavalry there.) I had to take Sicily from Carthage and Ireland from the Portuguese, as well as destroying Finland completely. (Because people kept invading me, I razed most of eastern Europe destroying various empires, allowing other, formerly trivial, civs to grow.) The only territory I took were a couple of tundra cities near oil.
The French attacked the Romans, who had helped me in many of my wars against other powers. In the interests of making sure the French didn't gain an empire and in keeping my ally intact, I took over France. France's army was at the gates of Rome, but I orchestrated an alliance that saved Rome from destruction. I captured every French-held Roman city and restored most of them.
Spain landed on my island, so my closest buddies and I destroyed Spain. Spain's betrayal was particularly annoying because they'd helped me destroy the Portuguese. While I was committed to my empire NOT growing overly large, this is where it started to anyway. I decided to keep a couple of the cities I won in Spain for the luxuries. The rest of Spain was dominated by the Romans (who had created a new empire for themselves) and the Celts. The Celts (in southern France) would sneak-attack me, leading to the annexation of the Celts. Algeria -- who owned all of north Africa except for the city of Carthage and Morocco -- attacked Carthage, and I wound up claiming most of the old Carthaginian empire for myself.
The same goes for the Turks. When the game ended by space-race, I was bombing Turkish garrisons into oblivion and then landing paratroopers to take their cities. I also had tactical nukes and ICBMs sitting around, but decided not to use them.
I don't know when or why I acquired Greece. I assume they declared war on me.
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darski
Regent in Training
This may not be a showstopper but it is pretty good for me with my new C3C game
I am getting used to things but still an occasional mis-click here or there.
Not a bad little empire for a newb. I have reduced the Vikings to their little OCC island and I am now at war (brought in the Romans for Iron) with the Hittites. They had a huge SOD just sitting there looking over my newer cities so I thought I would put them to use. I think/hope they can survive for a while.
I already expect to hate the Hittites in every game. this is my third Hittie war I think. I am also taking a break... enough with this war stuff
for today.
I am getting used to things but still an occasional mis-click here or there.
Not a bad little empire for a newb. I have reduced the Vikings to their little OCC island and I am now at war (brought in the Romans for Iron) with the Hittites. They had a huge SOD just sitting there looking over my newer cities so I thought I would put them to use. I think/hope they can survive for a while.
I already expect to hate the Hittites in every game. this is my third Hittie war I think. I am also taking a break... enough with this war stuff
for today.
TheOverseer714
Overseer
How do like the sissy scream that occurs when a 3 man chariot dies?
Sweetchuck
King
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Yeah, I knocked one of them off once and couldn't figure out what the hell that was.
Another good sound is from whacking a javelin thrower. "YAHHHHH..... clunk"
Sounds like it belongs in a Cake song.
Okay.
ZOMG How many cities are there? Have you exhausted the city name list?Here's my empire from one of my ongoing games:
In another couple of turns I'll abandon a lot of the loosely-spaced conquered cities and dump a lot of those settlers and workers to use the space better. At the moment, no more cities can be built, and I kept it like that for a while to stop the AI from building more stuff that I'd have to waste time conquering.
Desertsnow
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The city name limit is not a problem.
It's the actual cities.
The limit is 512 IIANM.
It's the actual cities.
The limit is 512 IIANM.
TheOverseer714
Overseer
Sometimes that gets so old that you have to get creative, and then even getting creative gets old. Theres only so many banana related names, for example. Banana Republic, Going Bananas, Banana Cabana, Monkey Business, and so on.
Yeah, but I've run into an oddity in one of my current games. Every time I try to put down a city, it comes up with "New" in the city naming box. Nothing else. Just "New." I've already named one city "New" just to try to get it to move on. It won't. I have to name each new city myself.
Bartleby
Remembers laughter
That's a bug with the Maya, Aabra; it always happens.
@Zef: there are 512 cities on my map; I can't remember how many times I cycled the city list. I'd say I reached at least on the ...8 or New...8 cycle. Once you start abandoning cities, the new ones you found will take the earliest available name though.
@Zef: there are 512 cities on my map; I can't remember how many times I cycled the city list. I'd say I reached at least on the ...8 or New...8 cycle. Once you start abandoning cities, the new ones you found will take the earliest available name though.
Well, that 'splains it, then. Obviously, I haven't played the Maya enough to know that . . . until now. Thanks, Bartleby.
OMG I've only gotten new 1 a few times. But when that happens I name the cities myself with other cities I know the civ in question did have IRL, but which weren't included in Civ3.
Newest update on my empire:
All of a sudden, the Mexicans declared war on me, those backstabbers. But I showed them! Then the Americans declared war one me, but I showed them too! Next I have to start a war against Brazil because they've almost completed their spaceship, and I hate them anyway. But they have shitloads of units everywhere!
