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[Lexicus]

I finally got a Civ 4 game started properly and man it is pretty epic...Genghis Khan is the score leader and has vassalized about half the big continent, but he's way behind in tech whereas I'm pretty close to being the tech leader, and I'm hoping to gobble enough of the "neutral" (ie, not capitulated to Genghis) civs to be able to defeat Genghis. It's very much an open question at the moment. Genghis is at war with Willem van Oranje, who had capitulated Bismarck. Both are on my northern border. On my southern border is Sitting Bull. When Genghis reduced Willem's score/power enough Bismarck broke free and I used that opportunity to capture all of Bismarck's cities on the mainland and capitulate him (he has a bunch of island cities left).

Now, I have to decide whether there's an opportunity to use my infantry/artillery stack to smash Genghis' riflemen - I'm not sure he even has cannons yet - or whether I should invade Sitting Bull to expand my territory and probably roughly double my current unit production. That would hopefully set me up for a real showdown with Genghis later, but I think in the meantime he's likely to become more powerful and if I can defeat him seriously now, the game is as good as won.

I won't be playing anymore tonight, since I have work tomorrow and I know I'll have trouble stopping at a proper time, so this decision will have to be made tomorrow.

 

[cardgame]

Go for the longer showdown where you can use airforce as well, much more fun that way imo

 

[AdamCrock]

Go for the longer showdown where you can use airforce as well, much more fun that way imo

...and nukes !! but mainly cardgame is right , air units are super-fun !

 

[Lexicus]

I don't think of them as very fun anymore, unfortunately. On Emperor it's very hard for me to get any kind of real air force in being before the AI starts spamming SAM infantry making aircraft mostly useless. I usually just build enough fighters to cover my ground forces from being attacked by enemy air units.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

I don't think of them as very fun anymore, unfortunately. On Emperor it's very hard for me to get any kind of real air force in being before the AI starts spamming SAM infantry making aircraft mostly useless. I usually just build enough fighters to cover my ground forces from being attacked by enemy air units.

SAM are limited in interceptions/turn, and you can soak these with fighters before using bombers. I rarely bothered since most games are decided in renaissance or just by bashing infantry/arty into literally anything but nukes vs AI, but air power remains quite good even on high levels.

Tac nukes are a broken unit. Evades SDI pretty well, absolutely crushes field armies. Can be gifted to both sides in AI wars to stall them out by wiping all the armies. And if you have huge production, enough tac nukes fired from submarines, and paratroopers it's usually possible to erase an AI on either the turn you declare or following turn. This unit is designed to end the game, as it has barely any counterplay and crushes stacks of anything in the game.

 

[MaryKB]

I played some Reigns: Her Majesty today, just a single queen, and I had a good run. I ruled for 41 years before the Church burned me as a heretic.

 

[Synobun]

You haven't really lived if you wouldn't be burned by the Church.

 

[MaryKB]

Christine only ruled for 7 years before her kingdom was conquered.

 

[Takhisis]

Can't you murder him in his/your bed? That's what any Sforza or de Medici would have done.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I finally got a Civ 4 game started properly and man it is pretty epic...Genghis Khan is the score leader and has vassalized about half the big continent, but he's way behind in tech whereas I'm pretty close to being the tech leader, and I'm hoping to gobble enough of the "neutral" (ie, not capitulated to Genghis) civs to be able to defeat Genghis. It's very much an open question at the moment. Genghis is at war with Willem van Oranje, who had capitulated Bismarck. Both are on my northern border. On my southern border is Sitting Bull. When Genghis reduced Willem's score/power enough Bismarck broke free and I used that opportunity to capture all of Bismarck's cities on the mainland and capitulate him (he has a bunch of island cities left).

Now, I have to decide whether there's an opportunity to use my infantry/artillery stack to smash Genghis' riflemen - I'm not sure he even has cannons yet - or whether I should invade Sitting Bull to expand my territory and probably roughly double my current unit production. That would hopefully set me up for a real showdown with Genghis later, but I think in the meantime he's likely to become more powerful and if I can defeat him seriously now, the game is as good as won.

I won't be playing anymore tonight, since I have work tomorrow and I know I'll have trouble stopping at a proper time, so this decision will have to be made tomorrow.

C'mon, just one more turn.

 

[RRRaskolnikov]

Go for the longer showdown where you can use airforce as well, much more fun that way imo

airsheeps are the best units of the game!

Spoiler more seriously :

in tandem with cuirassiers then cavs, nothing come into their way. add spies and pinch promotion into the mix and you will be killing infantries.

The evidence is clear, beelining physic is the superior*. *small reference to a great guy

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

...I want to see a mod that replaces the airship model with sheep now.

 

[AdamCrock]

Quite seriously "airsheeps" are great for scouting if You're not using espionage

Say Aimee are You familiar with the idea of amphibious elephants ?

From one of my games (Realism Invictus mod , which I highly recommend ) They're not quite amphibian yet , just going to some barbarian Island to get some XP for them xD

 

[AdamCrock]

RI mod got all sorts of cool features like each nation has their own set of historically and graphically flavoured units with unique set of national units

Spoiler units :

There are also world units - like world wonders You can only build them once and than no other civ can build them . Like this here Heavy Siege Howitzer :

Spoiler :

and many more I let You discover on Your own if You ever wish to download the mod

unrelated twist : seeing that Moscow city makes me want to listen to :

Spoiler :

Moskau ! xD

 

[EgonSpengler]

...I want to see a mod that replaces the airship model with sheep now.

What about Baaabmers?

 

[Lexicus]

So, I took the "war with Genghis" option as soon as I got home yesterday, which I think proved to be the right choice as I was able to seize a buffer of territory that Genghis had captured from Willem, as well as picking up Willem as a voluntary vassal after he broke free of Victoria. I had just launched a major offensive against Frederick (Genghis' most powerful vassal, quite technologically advanced but relatively small territory- in this war, he had infantry and artillery so he was a greater threat than Genghis even though Genghis started out with far more units). I captured two of his major cities, including one that had the Pentagon and a few other wonders, when Sitting Bull treacherously declared war on me! He was still fighting with riflemen, cavalry, and cannons so he failed to take even one city even with the element of surprise. I was able to use railroads to shift forces to that front rapidly, and having accomplished my objectives in the war against Genghis (temporary destruction of his offensive capabilities, and pushing the frontier toward his core) I made peace and switched effort to annexing Sitting Bull's land.

This was accomplished smoothly and with a minimum of fuss. I followed up by attacking Asoka, south of Sitting Bull, who had been a vassal of Mao (Genghis' ally, oddly enough, who had voluntarily vassaled to him for a while) but broke free in time for me to absorb him into my empire. I captured one city and then he capitulated.

With all that the stage was set to move forces back to the north, to my frontier with Genghis, newly lengthened because Genghis had again declared war on Victoria, and successfully capitulated her. As I expected, Genghis duly declared war on me maybe ten turns later, and the war was on. Fortunately, I had upgraded all my artillery to Mobile Artillery, had just discovered Composites and Computers, and was 2 turns from Robotics when this happened. Genghis' forces had been totally modernized, and he had a truly massive attacking stack, which I lured into one of the buffer cities seized in the previous war. It then took two of my major Great General Healer-III stacks (of three, the third immediately invaded Victoria's territory) something like 5 turns to fully destroy Genghis' big stack, but this was accomplished before bed last night, and I've upgraded a good number of Mechanized Infantry to cover the border cities. As soon as I've fully upgraded my forces I'll be invading Frederick and continuing into Genghis' territory. There are something like 3 or 4 civs left that aren't vassals of me or Genghis, so when this war is over I've got the game in the bag.

 

[MaryKB]

So much war! I barely enter conflicts whenever I play Civilization, I much prefer taking over territory by culture.

 

[dusters]

I'm trying to play peaceful victory on Civ 3.

So far game keeps giving me random tribes as seafaring/militaristic reducing my chances.

I usually play on demigod or Emperor, but I have reduced lvl to Warlord so I can research space victory in peace and buy other civs as mercenaries in case somebody attacks me.

Also I try diplomatic vitory, but last time I lost it despite being peaceful all game and even gifting stuff.

 

[Lexicus]

So much war! I barely enter conflicts whenever I play Civilization, I much prefer taking over territory by culture.

I play with Aggressive AI checked. In the grim darkness of my Civ games, there is only WAR! I'm just thankful no one's built the Manhattan Project (yet). Frederick certainly could have done so, he's had fission since the last war.

Also, I don't know how it works in Civ 6 but in Civ 4 culture flipping is quite difficult. As it should be imo, or else it would be too easy for certain AIs to flip the human's cities.

SAM are limited in interceptions/turn, and you can soak these with fighters before using bombers.

Yeah, but there's really no scenario where these hammers will be better used on fighters &bombers than on more infantry & artillery. As long as I have enough fighters to stop my attacking stacks from getting crippled, anyway.

 

[AdamCrock]

I play with Aggressive AI checked. In the grim darkness of my Civ games, there is only WAR! I'm just thankful no one's built the Manhattan Project (yet). Frederick certainly could have done so, he's had fission since the last war.

Also, I don't know how it works in Civ 6 but in Civ 4 culture flipping is quite difficult. As it should be imo, or else it would be too easy for certain AIs to flip the human's cities.

The mechanics of flipping is completely different between IV and VI , in VI You have loyalty points whereas in IV there's only culture Spies in IV can initiate revolt and btw a tip :

it's a great way to reduce city defenses to 0% without having to bombard it