Armageddon
Chieftain
Does anyone have any strategies for catching up if you fall behind?
I am playing a game (regent level) right now where, as it turns out, the random map was a pangea and I'm dead center on the continent.
I ended up in a war with the aztecs that has lasted a good 1000 years, and I finally had to catipulate one of my cites to them to sign a peace treaty, and their technology had moved well beyond mine.
Now, it appears, I'm screwed. I have only 4 cities, 2 of which are very small. I am well behind everyone in technologies, and I'm entirely surrounded, with 4 or 5 different civ cities on my boarders, and a constant flow of units right across my territory.
So - what do I do? In civ 2, my strategy might have been to pack it up into a boat, try to find a deserted island, and setup shop there, and then raid a few outlying/lightly defended cities and pickup key technologies that would help me.
Because you don't get technologies on capture in civ 3, that strategy won't work. I can't trade for tech because I'm so far behind, and what little gold I have gets eaten up paying tribute for peace.
Any thoughts? It seems that if you dont' start of winning that there's no way out of a hole, but I know there must be a way.
Thanks!
I am playing a game (regent level) right now where, as it turns out, the random map was a pangea and I'm dead center on the continent.
I ended up in a war with the aztecs that has lasted a good 1000 years, and I finally had to catipulate one of my cites to them to sign a peace treaty, and their technology had moved well beyond mine.
Now, it appears, I'm screwed. I have only 4 cities, 2 of which are very small. I am well behind everyone in technologies, and I'm entirely surrounded, with 4 or 5 different civ cities on my boarders, and a constant flow of units right across my territory.
So - what do I do? In civ 2, my strategy might have been to pack it up into a boat, try to find a deserted island, and setup shop there, and then raid a few outlying/lightly defended cities and pickup key technologies that would help me.
Because you don't get technologies on capture in civ 3, that strategy won't work. I can't trade for tech because I'm so far behind, and what little gold I have gets eaten up paying tribute for peace.
Any thoughts? It seems that if you dont' start of winning that there's no way out of a hole, but I know there must be a way.
Thanks!
