ceaserhall
Chieftain
I recently finished a vanilla civ 4 game on chieftan level (still learning). In the beginning, I had plenty of copper and horses, but no iron. I was still able to wipe out invading barbs and acquire three nice barb cities with what I had, but I knew I needed that iron to defend myself against my neighbors--and win.
I built mines like crazy, hoping one would pop for me, but nothing happened. Later, I did get a Persain city near my capital to flip, and I mined it too, but I had no indication of having any iron. I checked the resources screen in the foreign advisor and saw I had no iron, and my rivals weren't about to share.
In the early 1900's (AD), I decided I was going attack my Spanish neighbors and take their iron mine. My borders surrounded the area with the mine on three sides. I began preparing and even though I didn't have iron, I was able to build artillery, a destroyer, gunships, and tanks(!?!). It was never a contest.
Around the same I deprived the Spanish of their iron mine, and three of their cities, one of my mines in my city of Gordium, the one that flipped to me, popped iron. Before I built the mine near Gordium, I was starting to build catapults, but after I researched artillery, my catapult production was upgraded.
So...was it there all along and the game gave me the benefits of iron, but not the acknowledgement of its presence?
R.Hall
ceaserhall
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I built mines like crazy, hoping one would pop for me, but nothing happened. Later, I did get a Persain city near my capital to flip, and I mined it too, but I had no indication of having any iron. I checked the resources screen in the foreign advisor and saw I had no iron, and my rivals weren't about to share.
In the early 1900's (AD), I decided I was going attack my Spanish neighbors and take their iron mine. My borders surrounded the area with the mine on three sides. I began preparing and even though I didn't have iron, I was able to build artillery, a destroyer, gunships, and tanks(!?!). It was never a contest.
Around the same I deprived the Spanish of their iron mine, and three of their cities, one of my mines in my city of Gordium, the one that flipped to me, popped iron. Before I built the mine near Gordium, I was starting to build catapults, but after I researched artillery, my catapult production was upgraded.
So...was it there all along and the game gave me the benefits of iron, but not the acknowledgement of its presence?
R.Hall
ceaserhall
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. Otherwise you're going what, mech infantry? You can make guided missiles too. Mech infantry/guided missiles can win on land (though dealing with opposing mech infantry will be hard and you'll probably need ambush promos among other things). For naval combat uranium will let you build ships so that should help.
. Not sure what you can do then, better get your hands on oil or aluminum. Both of these resources are revealed before they're usable in considerable military campaigns, take advantage and do everything you can to acquire some.
