Resource Island

Kalach

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This is the easiest best resourse war i've ever had.
I was playing as Korea and was coming 3rd in score and 1st in tech in the modern era. In my whole country I only had 1 iron and 4 incence :( (and got some rubber when the inca sneak attacked me and declared war)

I am the only country to have contact with the Hitties and they are coming last in score (lower than spain which I destroyed a while ago :D ).
The Hittie island contains Oil, Rubber, Urainum and Aluminium, and is defended with spears and archers.
 

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I`m enviously lokking at your screenshot. I saw this situation once in my dreams! :D
 
Remember, every 10th spearman has supper humon powers and a really sharp pointy stick :spear:
 
ok man u have got to be playing on cheiftan at best. The fact that u are attacking with MA, and the hittites are defending with superhuman spearman says something. This war must not have been that hard for you to win.

-Juballs
 
Not really, that civ just had the quite common "primitive island" phenomenon.

As you can see it's obvious that it isn't connected to the other islands. These things aren't often seen until the late middle ages when they are so backwards that noone bothers trading techs with them. I often play on huge archapelago with water set on maximum and that happens all the time.
 
Perfection said:
Not really, that civ just had the quite common "primitive island" phenomenon.

As you can see it's obvious that it isn't connected to the other islands. These things aren't often seen until the late middle ages when they are so backwards that noone bothers trading techs with them. I often play on huge archapelago with water set on maximum and that happens all the time.

ok. tested this out just to prove u wrong, i played a map i created on editor, and i played huge 12 civs game arch. 80% water. I only played warlord. I still crushed the other civs, but when i went to attack the civ on the isolated island they had rifleman, and it was 1800AD. My modern armor still won . And no the civ did not have contact with any other civs except me. the other civs that were on the mainland and connected to one another had infantry guarding. No one had contact with the isolated civ, so they got to rifleman on their own, this guy must be playing on cheiftan therefore because the worst the AI could do is pikeman or musketman and in the particular game above would mean the AI did not have access to iron or gunpowder

-Juballs
 
does it matter if he was playing in chieftan? the topic is about "the best and easiest resource war", therefore it applies to all difficulty levels. If it were against riflemen, then it wouldn't be that easy now would it?
 
One test case, wow, conclusive evidence!

That island is pretty small. And at higher levels, doesn't the tech war consist of a lot of trading? It's possible that this kind of scenario happens every once in a while. Not that the difficulty level is even important. For this thread.
 
in my current game the americans were on a fairly small grassland/tundra island, it had iron, coal, rubber... all the strategic except horses lol.

anyway by the time all civs entered industrial era they were still ancient. by the time i entered modren era they were researching invention.

difficulty level: Sid

so it can happen! but they had pikemen. loads of them. i planted a spy to check, they had 210 pikemen, 90 archers, 113 medieval infantry.... (and some maybe 100 spearmen)

the AI builds insanley big armies on Sid level lol. too bad his army was such crap. :p
(the military advisor informed me that compared to them our military was weak right up until i got tanks! lol)
 
juballs2001 said:
ok. tested this out just to prove u wrong, i played a map i created on editor, and i played huge 12 civs game arch. 80% water. I only played warlord. I still crushed the other civs, but when i went to attack the civ on the isolated island they had rifleman, and it was 1800AD. My modern armor still won . And no the civ did not have contact with any other civs except me. the other civs that were on the mainland and connected to one another had infantry guarding. No one had contact with the isolated civ, so they got to rifleman on their own, this guy must be playing on cheiftan therefore because the worst the AI could do is pikeman or musketman and in the particular game above would mean the AI did not have access to iron or gunpowder

-Juballs

In one of my Warlord games a couple weeks ago, the world was already in the Industrial Age when one of the AI found Persia on a small island in the fog of war (and still in the AA). They had spears and longbowmen, and I had two cavalry armies. Guess who won?
 
In my Warlord game I'm finishing (I'm gonna move up to Regent after this), Huge map, full 16 civs, I found Russia stuck on two small half-tundra islands in the corner. Everyone had Steam Power and they were still at Currency, and they had contact with no one.
 
@Juballs
You're point? So what if he was playing at chieftan? It's not your job to put down someone's excitement.
 
It was from my last Warlord game before moving to Regent.
Even now on Regent I still keep up as the tech leader and sometimes come across 'primitive islands', the lowest i've come across so far though has been pikemen.

My original point was that I only had 1 source of Iron on my land (and some rubber i stole) until I came across this island that had Al, Ur, Ru, and Oil, and was amazed that all 4 of these were on the smallest island (huge map). Then it just got better when I saw what was defending it :)
 
Perfection said:
Not really, that civ just had the quite common "primitive island" phenomenon.

As you can see it's obvious that it isn't connected to the other islands. These things aren't often seen until the late middle ages when they are so backwards that noone bothers trading techs with them. I often play on huge archapelago with water set on maximum and that happens all the time.

This common on any type of huge world and all levels. All it tacks is for one AI to get stuck on an Island in the corner. Then the other AI won't trade if their down to many techs. I see this in almost every game. Ture it is more common with a lower level.

Also cool :cool: what a nice find on the island. :thumbsup: :banana: :goodjob:
 
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