What's your Civ 3 Achilles Heel?

[PaperBeetle]

I never build enough defensive units to garrison in captured cities.

That's not a weakness.
My weakness is... defensive units. Especially pikes, I love em' . I love them so much that sometimes I actually build them!

 

[Taras Bulba]

I am land hungry. I always have to have the biggest land mass. It doesn't have to be the 66% for domination victory, just bigger than everyone else.

second, and probably worse weakness, i never build enough workers. my land is hardly ever improved.

third, i am a civ screen freak. I cannot let ANY gw's pass up. CivConquest has really tested me since it gives me my first resource required (one that isn't as popular) gw, the temple of Zeus. I hardly ever get ivory.

my current game is really testing me. I lost the Oracle (although i find that happy faces are quite usless to me as i usually go to war) which is upsetting, i have no ivory, so no statue of Zeus, and i am now boxed in, so no more immediate expantion. I also have a total of about 5-8 (estimate, could be more) workers which is HORRIBLE for the size of my nation.

Game File(conquest req): http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/109601/Ottomans_150_AD.SAV

Screenshot:http://forums.civfanatics.com/uploads/109601/Game_annoying_me.JPG

 

[garyg]

Right after I hit enter and the screen starts shifting from one scene to another I'll notice the barbarian invasion or the enemy landing or the city switching to a useless build after completing the task assigned and I'll say to myself, "Oh yeah, I've got to deal with that". And then the screen flashes on to other areas of the empire and I'm drawn into other pressing conflicts. I fight my wars and move my units and hit enter again.... argh!

 

[darski]

Oh yeah! I know that one. ... and I can never remember where it was happening when I do remember it ...sigh

This is what amazes me about the great players here... they keep all this stuff running in their heads in a single moment

 

[Elite]

My insatitable appetiate for expansion(always expanding) though I never neglect my military, they always become to spread thin to effectivly defend my borders.

 

[Xanikk999]

Finishing the game is my biggest achilles heel actually, i get bored once i enter mid industrial ages, i reach the modern ages a couple of times but i have never won.

And im not a noob either, ive been playing this game for 5 years.

 

[bryanwallace]

me too.

ive never been to the modern age

 

[Aceman101]

How can you get bored in the mid industrial age . That's when all the advanced units come in.

 

[metamike]

Um...What's the thing in my gameplay that if you cut-out renders me immobile?

...My right most likely, I'm not too good with navigating the units on the screen with my left one.

Oor, if you take away all of my units I probably couldn't move anywhere because...well..I wouldn't have anything to move.

 

[enigmaticgamer]

I don't expand fast enough. I prefer to have fewer but more valuable cities, but then the AI expands all around me and I'm boxed in. But I'm learning to expand more aggressively.

 

[azzaman333]

Befriending the AI. Also, fighting along a long border. And attacking too late.

 

[pat4]

I'd have to say it's my impatience during the latter half of the game. I get bored with a big empire. My new thing to do is on set maps put myself in horrible positions have a small empire but still put it up to the AI.

 

[Sashie VII]

How can you get bored in the mid industrial age . That's when all the advanced units come in.

I get bored during this period too, at times. The units are cool but when the win is in the bag and the rest of the game is just paperwork..

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Not making enough workers to clean up pollution fast enough!

 

[Joe Harker]

Building way too many units for invasion, not surpising to see me build a three to one advantage over a big civ

 

[rysingsun]

my biggest weakness may be ancient era wars - that is, i'm afraid of them, and when i do get in one i'm not very good at it.

 

[dakkon]

marines, i spam marines even when there are better units available. i love having massive numbers of marines. plus im scared of trying to play at a higher level (been playing for close to 3 years and im still on regent)

 

[freefall]

Wonder Addiction I can always find some reason to justify having that particular wonder, then I fall behind in expansion and a war will start with whom ever is closest to the resource I should have claimed instead of building that wonder...

I have gotten better however, choosing only a few that have continental effect such as Art of War, Oracle, and Hoover Dam. And that forbidden palace so the whole continent I am on is relatively low on corruption.

 

[romanista]

a build way too much. and i almost never go to war...

 

[cometflash]

Playing too fast and not taking the time to factor everything into my decisions.

I already play very slowly though, sometimes more than an hour per turn in end game. There are often just so many things to think about....

That brings me to the second problem: Leaving too little time for other things in life.

The worst thing about playing slow, like you (and I do as well), is playing online.

I always get my butt kicked, when I try to play online, because of the timer.