I'm moving up the difficulty ladder, doing my first Regent game. I thought to take the easiest route first, warmongering. So I played as the Japanese. Religious and Militaristic, with the Samurai UU, they practically beg for warmongering.
The game started with violence. I had two cities, my capital destined for a troop factory, with a settler pump building its grainary and a third worker pump in the plans. One of my explorers meets with Persia, who within a few turns try to extort a tech from me. Not this game .
I switch production to archers and spearmen, and proceed to take out most of Persia. Later in the game after things had filled out a bit they had the temerity to try to extort me again. I had a dozen cities with a pop between 3 and 6, they had a 4, a 2, and about four size 1s. This time I let them have it, rolling my horsement over them and totally wiping them out.
Things fill in a bit more, but I can't trade. Neither India nor Zululand will build connecting roads. Most I can do its trade techs. When I get Samurai I continue my wars of conquest and absorb zululand as well. There's a brief war with me against China and India, but it was one of those industial age wars that feel like WW1, tons of units thrown at defensive positions with almost no change in territory. They made peace eventually.
I'm first on the histogram and have plenty of territory to keep that lead. So I switch up to democracy. Now I keep getting trouble out of the aztecs, on another continent. After the first unprovoked war I positioned a naval unit - carrier, battleship, 3 destroyers, transport of cav, transport of artillery and infantry. Next time they declared within one turn I was bombing and shelling one of their cities, hoping to starve them down by shelling all the irrigation around it.
Anyway, I've been treated like a rogue state throughout the game. Bascially no one had connecting roads to me for a long time, then everyone was so mad at me they'd form embargos. Is there some way around this? Does wiping out a civ affect your reputation so? I looked in the War Academy but didn't see anything on reputation specifically.
Thanks!
The game started with violence. I had two cities, my capital destined for a troop factory, with a settler pump building its grainary and a third worker pump in the plans. One of my explorers meets with Persia, who within a few turns try to extort a tech from me. Not this game .
I switch production to archers and spearmen, and proceed to take out most of Persia. Later in the game after things had filled out a bit they had the temerity to try to extort me again. I had a dozen cities with a pop between 3 and 6, they had a 4, a 2, and about four size 1s. This time I let them have it, rolling my horsement over them and totally wiping them out.
Things fill in a bit more, but I can't trade. Neither India nor Zululand will build connecting roads. Most I can do its trade techs. When I get Samurai I continue my wars of conquest and absorb zululand as well. There's a brief war with me against China and India, but it was one of those industial age wars that feel like WW1, tons of units thrown at defensive positions with almost no change in territory. They made peace eventually.
I'm first on the histogram and have plenty of territory to keep that lead. So I switch up to democracy. Now I keep getting trouble out of the aztecs, on another continent. After the first unprovoked war I positioned a naval unit - carrier, battleship, 3 destroyers, transport of cav, transport of artillery and infantry. Next time they declared within one turn I was bombing and shelling one of their cities, hoping to starve them down by shelling all the irrigation around it.
Anyway, I've been treated like a rogue state throughout the game. Bascially no one had connecting roads to me for a long time, then everyone was so mad at me they'd form embargos. Is there some way around this? Does wiping out a civ affect your reputation so? I looked in the War Academy but didn't see anything on reputation specifically.
Thanks!