Bleak? RubberJ, you ain't seen bleak yet, my friend. This was a cruise control game. If you win on Deity by domination/conquest with all victory conditions enabled, you didn't come close to bleak. In fact, we were about NINTH out of sixteen on land holdings early in the middle ages, when the land grab phase completed. That's middle of the pack, and surely one of the strongest showings at that point in a deity game I've yet seen. Most deity games see you clearly at the BOTTOM, in last place or ahead of only one or two civs that got shafted on their start position or got ganged on and beaten down very early.
These lands were far from poor. I loved them! All that desert meant we'd have oil, and really, relative to our total land holding, it wasn't all that much. We had a river, so a lot of that became flood plain, which is good. And we had multiple iron. Multiple luxuries. Horses, saltpeter, rubber, uranium, aluminum. We lacked for nothing. A far cry from Epic 30's "one rubber available, if you managed to settle in the right dirction" resource drought.
Wait until you have a game where you're a whole age behind in tech and there are SoDs of rifles and cavs waltzing past your regular warriors on their way to attack another AI. Then you'll understand bleak.
VERY NICELY PLAYED, everybody. Yes, we had a favorable position in not having any close neighbors, but we still made the most of it and there was no drugtaking going on under the bleachers.
I can't think of a single moment where I banged my head on the desk
or yelled at the monitor :rant: and that may actually be a FIRST for me in all my SG's! (No joke.)
As for testing... people are overemphasizing the middle age unit tweaks. We tested a lot in this game: the science changes, the new marines (somebody said they really stung more when the AI's were using them), the rifles and guerillas, the space race changes, the specialists, the wonders were in play. All in all, enough testing between the ST games played so far to see that the tweaks are working out as planned.
Thanks for playing, and hope to see you all again for another run at something in future.
- Sirian
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I cleared their ironclads from the Greek Island, but a sub sank one of the battleships in the Greek Defense Force. Most of the navy was trying to attack at Alasund. That is why there is a stack of artillery there. The got some good luck and were able to take out 2 destroyers. 
They all start to look the same scrolling from the F1 screen. As projects completed, I focused on courthouses, police stations and hospitals. Developed cities that were building armor were switched to airports if they needed one. It does not help if we can produce 20 armors per turn if only 10 can join the battle. 
took quite a long time -even for a huge map; here's the histograph
. When I first got Civ3, I went to the Official website and started going through the links. Your Great Library is the first site I came across that helped me understand the details needed to consistantly beat the AI's. I found CivFanatics and RealmsBeyond from there. Thank you for that wealth of knowledge and the chance to play with you. 
