[RFC] Rome: Eternal Empire

[Duke of Britain]

Perhaps some of these things were done to make gameplay more interesting, rather than to attempt to reflect historical situations.

Then why they are "historical borders"
and to make the game interesting it would for sure include the situation where England conquers France? think of how history would be different should that have happened

 

[Dhoomstriker]

Then why they are "historical borders"
and to make the game interesting it would for sure include the situation where England conquers France? think of how history would be different should that have happened

By gameplay, I meant that "well, if you are playing as England, one of the obvious choices of targets is France."

If France's lands are a stable region for England, then you'll see nearly every game play out the same way when you play as England: go attack France.

Given the high Cultural output that Paris tends to place on London, it would become a "no brainer" strategy to the point that you'd pretty much always do it.

From a gameplay perspective, that situation doesn't make for a very fun game of Civ 4. It makes for a fun game of Axis an Allies (where generally a lot of the attacks are "scripted" and happen roughly the same time and time again, just with different dice rolls determining the outcomes), but Civ 4 thrives on being different each time, so taking away some of the "obvious" things to do and making them harder to achieve can make for better gameplay than having "obvious" choices that lead you to play in a similar manner game after game.

See what I'm saying?

 

[Duke of Britain]

Well, then why give the areas to the USA? It makes no difference...plus England is really wrong when it comes to Canada not being 100% green in their maps, plus again they never get Louisiana, something that if happened would make for more interesting independence wars, sometimes.

But what bugs me the most is Mongolia
They never get anything near the historical size they had...it is annoying, it's the same everytime, take over China or just half of it, with rarely China defeating them.
the Mongols never try to get their historical size, i wish they would take it more times, would lead to interesting situations, and with such a size they would probably collapse and be like real life...a lot of independent countries.

 

[inohotep]

why'd you start this again?

 

[MoreEpicThanYou]

Spoiler for the end of next chapter.

Spoiler :

WORLD WAR!!!

and i have barely any army in europe...

 

[Yoshiegg737]

I like those

 

[Dhoomstriker]

I like those

World Wars or Wars where you barely have an army because you have been build Banks in place of Military Units?

 

[Yoshiegg737]

World Wars or Wars where you barely have an army because you have been build Banks in place of Military Units?

Banks are so much more useful than Military Unit's in a war

 

[trexeric]

I never have enough war units.

 

[MoreEpicThanYou]

Update today! You won't get to see much world war, but you WILL get to see MOAR colonization!

Random Citizen: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! THIS JOKE IS GETTING OLD!

 

[MoreEpicThanYou]

We begin looking at my only Mexican military unit on this side of former Aztec territory that wasn't killed by the plague. It will defend a choke point. If it fails, all of my cities will be lost....

TAKE THAT, AZ--- Independents. *sigh* Fighting Aztecs is more fun.

Ooh, a congress! LOTS of pics... And moar cities for my empire...

HOORAY! Party! Yay! Happiness. Colons! ;;;;;;;;;
Random citizen: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (How many of you like this joke?)

Hm... I choose no.

MOAR GOL-- *clop clop clop*

Wait... Mexicopolis? My newest and least infrastructured city?

Izzy does nothing.

It's a Turkish city, so I vote yes.

DIE, TURKS!

Hmm. Aken is a terrible spot, Plymouth will get flipp'd, and I don't know where those Turkish cities are. I go for the only other option.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! CURSE YOU!

China wants something. NO.

Dang.

My Egyptian colony? BIG NO.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
It wasn't that good of a city, so I let it go.

YES. This'll be fun...

Oh, yes. That's gonna HURT, China.

Sure, take it. One less potential city for German Scandinavia.

That turned out good!

I vote no.

The Chinese one? TAKE IT!

Hooray! (Even though I didn't recognize the name. If I remembered that China had it, I would've voted yes.)

The Arabs respawn. Hopefully the Ottomans will get distracted by them.

I has been ninja'd! Oh well, it'll get flipped.

And ninja'd again. The ninja god hates me... (Celtic cities, Arabic navy, and early in the story HJ and Ilduce...)

We are rich, rich, RICH!

WHAT? France respawing.... OH COME ON!!! I HATE YOU!!!

Exiled garrison.
Garrison: What do we do..
Me: Um.. You are FAT!

The New FAT takes over Lyons easily, like last time.

Part 2 coming VERY soon!

 

[MoreEpicThanYou]

We're kind of busy right now....

Looks like the plague... I am medicine-less.

Portugal and Germany... have declared war on me. Let's just say I'm not prepared...

TEH COMBATANTS

The Roman Alliance:
Rome and vassals Mali and Babylon
Spain
Russia

The... Axis?
Germany
Portugal
French Rebels

Other:
England (At war with France, but not Germany or Portugal)
The Ottomans (At war with Spain, but not Rome or Russia)

MY WAR PLANS

Take all of France back.
Take Berlin. If that doesn't collapse/capitulate the Germans, keep taking German cities until they are exiled to Scandinavia.
Take Lisbon (and maybe trade it to Spain.) If that doesn't collapse/capitulate the Portuguese, see if they have any colonies besides Shanghai. If they do, keep taking cities until they are exiled to China.

What happens next? Find out next time, on Rome: Eternal Empire!

 

[inohotep]

WHAT? TAKE WHAT?
don't leave us hanging....

 

[MoreEpicThanYou]

whoops.. :facepalm:

accidentally copied that last bit

 

[inohotep]

should've qouted that, now i look like i belong in an insane asylum...
.....please don't put me back

 

[Alexius08]

Are you ready to take on the Turks? I see that you're very advanced, with your riflemen facing enemy longbowmen..

 

[MoreEpicThanYou]

I'm not ready. The problem is that I have barely any riflemen. I could switch to Nationhood, but I'm unstable.

 

[Alexius08]

Switching to nationhood means additional stability for every civ you're at war with, and switching to occupation means additional stability for every city you capture. That's if you have enough stability to endure a few turns of anarchy.

 

[Yoshiegg737]

One Rifleman should handle most of their troops

 

[inohotep]

just like that archer did (remember, way back with that archer that took out like 6 units)