should I keep this game?

[itripinchairs]

it didn't offend me haha. I'm still confused though as to how some people are already in the modern age by the year I am in. But with the Barracks, it could have something to do with the fact that I am playing Vanilla? I have Barracks in almost every city even before I made Sun Tzu's. So I do have barracks in each city. I should build knights but I never studied chivalry. I should consider doing that soon because I'm finding that Musketmen are pretty useless. 4 stacks died against SPEARMEN... I was so disappointed

 

[CommandoBob]

Muskets attack with '2'. Spears defend with '2'. Spears get defensive modifiers (fortifed, on a hill, across a river, etc). Those Spears may have been defending with a '3' or maybe even '4'.

Muskets defend with '4', but they are not an offensive unit. Not unless you have a lot of them and have plenty of artillery to pound your enemies into redlined status before you attack.

In vanilla, I think the only offensive foot unit you have are Swords, until you get Riflemen. Medieval Infantry showed up in PTW. Swords upgrade to them.

Nothing has been said about Horses, so it appears you do not have that Strategic Resource available to you.

 

[itripinchairs]

oh crap. you're right. Well theres my war justification, yes!? > legionaries! Start your march through Greece!

 

[Diviner]

Oh, I did not take into account that you play vanilla civ3. For the best of gameplay, I'd advise you to upgrade to Conquests if you can do that. It really adds many aspects to the game.

it didn't offend me haha. I'm still confused though as to how some people are already in the modern age by the year I am in.

While your research management can really be improved (and I am sure it will), the players who are in the modern age by 1300 AD are usually is in vastly different situation than you. In Monarch you can still gain technology lead on the AI with relative ease. But on higher levels they got so much bonus that they will become extremely good at research. The players thus do not research each tech on their own, but collect the techs from the AIs by making contact with many of them early in the game and hunting for the possibilites to buy a tech from AI-1 and trade it with AI-2 for another tech while the two AI-s do not have mutual contacts thus any tech trade must go through the player.

 

[itripinchairs]

I think in my next game I'm going to move up to Regent difficulty. I've played on chieftain and warlord for a long time. While my technique isn't necessarily the best, I guess the best way for me to improve is by moving forward, aye?

 

[Diviner]

Yes, moving up is always a good idea. On Regent you will compete with the AI fairly (in Warlord the Human has advantages), thus you will need more workers and more settlers early on. City placement will be more important. And you have to give up building some wonders/improvements to be able to produce a coherent strategy early in the game (for example not building courthouses in your core cities ). But just keep on playing thats the greatest teacher. You will get better eventually. And if there is a problem, ask for help here

 

[itripinchairs]

Thanks Diviner.

Now I started a war with Greece again and Captured the two cities at the bottom, and pushed (the massive number of) their swordsman back into their borders and sealed it off with muskets. My goal with this war is to get down south to where the horses are which is going to mean taking 2 or 3 more cities. You guys point has been proven with the lack of stopping power in the muskets. haha I won't do that again

 

[itripinchairs]

The thumbnail shows a picture of the results of my war with the Greeks. The black arrows show the cities I started with. The rest was gained through force I could've easily finished the job on them and taken them off the continent, but the citizens all over were getting mad at me for the "aggression against the mother country". I'll finish them after I catch up on my tech

 

[Diviner]

I would have kicked the greeks out of the continent and ignore the Greek nationalists, especially that you are in Monarchy. Those greek cities are utterly corrupt settlements far from the 'engine' of your empire. If you don't struggle with extreme war weariness (basically all time, if you wage war effectively even if you're Republic) in your productive core there is no reason to not hunt them down to the last men. That way you don't have to care for cultural flips and the greek nationalists will forget who they were and become happy. And of course you get bigger

I see you have cavalry. Thats very good. Fast and effective. Now comes the americans. Destroy them with no mercy

 

[itripinchairs]

that should be simple enough, and after that I'll work on my navy as well as cultural improvements. What ye say about academies?

oh and just a note, the whole point of that war was mainly to retrieve the horses near pharsalos. After that, I had extra units that were expendable so I went for it. Sparta took a few stacks of cavalry to capture, however

 

[Diviner]

You mean universities? They are good, but relatively expensive. I guess you could build them if you go for high culture. But aside from a few galleons and 1 frigate for each galleon you won't need that big navy. The unescorted transport units are in danger, but overall the AI is very poor at naval warfare.

I would say if you want to stop warmongering and change for a peaceful builder style, revolt to Republic and improve all your tiles with the faster workers. A populous, republican empire (meaning metropolises everywhere) can give plenty of unit support to war too (at least in Conquests it does, check civilopedia). Nevertheless, in almost all scenarios a Republic is better than a Monarchy economy-wise and better than a Democracy military-wise.

Just looking at the timer.. It is 1900AD. :O I didn't know that the AI is so hopeless that they are still in the ancient age. And judging from the cities, they are. Perhaps the americans are already in medieval, but still its ridiculous how incompetent they are. I keep forgetting about it on higher levels.

 

[itripinchairs]

Yeah but in the case that my diplomatic stance isn't very good (everyone hates me) and I'm gonna want to take out the Zulu soon, which would be better? With my style of gameplay, the AI tends to declare war quite often.

 

[itripinchairs]

ha before I go any further, I would like to point out that killing the americans will be the easiest thing ever, reason being, they don't have ANY strategic resources! We're in the industrial age and they still have spearman for city garrisons