Though I'm new to the list, I have been playing Civ for a long, long time. It's like I've been developing on my own on another continent far away, and suddenly I find Civfanatics and the map has been revealed....
Since I've been playing the same way for so long, I've started developing my own personal quirks and, frankly, silly amusements that I enjoy doing as an aside to the real game, and I am wondering if anyone else does this sort of thing.
- I try to put a few of my UUs in the capitol as an honor guard, never to be upgraded.
- When playing as the Greeks, I like to turn Sparta into a Hoplite factory and also post an extra few near Thermopylae. You know, because the Spartans were the best west warriors and had the big stand there against the Persians et al
- After my older elites are too out dated to have much success in combat, I like to build a fortress near my capitol and house them there as sort of a "Hall of the Elites" type of thing. A retirement home as it were. Maybe send them into battle against some "one-bar reds" but otherwise they're on pension.
- My latest is the "Naval Museum" where I try to collect one of each type of ship as the game progresses and put them in a safe harbor someplace, you know, for the kids...
These rules aren't hard and fast, sometimes I just get bored and turn all my geezer hoplites into shields or fodder. But I do these things almost always and it actually makes it a little more fun.
Hey I never said I was cool. Just wondering, does anyone else do stuff like this?
Since I've been playing the same way for so long, I've started developing my own personal quirks and, frankly, silly amusements that I enjoy doing as an aside to the real game, and I am wondering if anyone else does this sort of thing.
- I try to put a few of my UUs in the capitol as an honor guard, never to be upgraded.
- When playing as the Greeks, I like to turn Sparta into a Hoplite factory and also post an extra few near Thermopylae. You know, because the Spartans were the best west warriors and had the big stand there against the Persians et al
- After my older elites are too out dated to have much success in combat, I like to build a fortress near my capitol and house them there as sort of a "Hall of the Elites" type of thing. A retirement home as it were. Maybe send them into battle against some "one-bar reds" but otherwise they're on pension.
- My latest is the "Naval Museum" where I try to collect one of each type of ship as the game progresses and put them in a safe harbor someplace, you know, for the kids...
These rules aren't hard and fast, sometimes I just get bored and turn all my geezer hoplites into shields or fodder. But I do these things almost always and it actually makes it a little more fun.
Hey I never said I was cool. Just wondering, does anyone else do stuff like this?
