*/SpaceRace\*
Chieftain
I'm enjoying celebration pizza right now 
, as I have made history: I got me a Noble Victory! (no pun intended)
Sorry if that was a little anti-climactic, but so was the space-race ending I got. It was damned close and hard-won victory >.>.
Ragnar of the Vikings, Noble, Pangea, Standard Size, Default settings, Space Race Victory.
The reason I care about this and it would be awsome if you did (but probably don't), is that I have a disease, Chronic Builderitis (that means literally, a slowly progressing imflamation of the builder
). Before, I have held back on the military, viewing war as a break from peace, not the other way around. But in this game, I, for the first time, demolished the two civs near me in ancient-medival ages and went berserk up until the jump from bows and catapults to guns. I just ran into the military monster of the continent, Alex. Don't ask me why, but his power rating was climbing almost straight up, leveling off somewhere twice as high as my tallest peak 
. Plus, the politics of the continent were getting tense, and he was the worlds greatest buffer state, as he was my buddy. Kinda. Alex was most loyal to Capac, that damned cultured leader of an incan rump-state at the south pole 
, and had better loyalties to most everyone else on the continent worth talking about, but I changed that. giving him some crappy non-military techs, he was pleased enough to go and kick some Persian, American, and German ass for me around the time gunpowder units were the norm everywhere. I wanted to Permenant Alliance with him, but then he did it with Capac. OMGWTFBBQ I hate him (Capac) now. He nearly got me conquered, as through the industrial age and early modern age (for us two, everyone else was far enough behind to have a 1000 score-point lag) he was edging closer and closer to war with me, at the rest of the worlds urging 
. But then, for whatever reason, he warmed up a little, and I got him involved in a war against the americans and persians, giving him enough on his hands that he didn't pursue a spaceship, allowing me, with my relatively inferior territory size and quality, to win.
Did you enjoy my story? I hope so. I also hope you could leave further hints for me as I continue to attempt to edge towards Monarch and Beyond. Also, does anyone play the same way I did, extremely aggressive in the beginning, and more passive as time goes on? I have dubbed it the "Mongol Strategy", but is there a more official name?
, as I have made history: I got me a Noble Victory! (no pun intended)Sorry if that was a little anti-climactic, but so was the space-race ending I got. It was damned close and hard-won victory >.>.
Ragnar of the Vikings, Noble, Pangea, Standard Size, Default settings, Space Race Victory.
The reason I care about this and it would be awsome if you did (but probably don't), is that I have a disease, Chronic Builderitis (that means literally, a slowly progressing imflamation of the builder
). Before, I have held back on the military, viewing war as a break from peace, not the other way around. But in this game, I, for the first time, demolished the two civs near me in ancient-medival ages and went berserk up until the jump from bows and catapults to guns. I just ran into the military monster of the continent, Alex. Don't ask me why, but his power rating was climbing almost straight up, leveling off somewhere twice as high as my tallest peak . Plus, the politics of the continent were getting tense, and he was the worlds greatest buffer state, as he was my buddy. Kinda. Alex was most loyal to Capac, that damned cultured leader of an incan rump-state at the south pole , and had better loyalties to most everyone else on the continent worth talking about, but I changed that. giving him some crappy non-military techs, he was pleased enough to go and kick some Persian, American, and German ass for me around the time gunpowder units were the norm everywhere. I wanted to Permenant Alliance with him, but then he did it with Capac. OMGWTFBBQ I hate him (Capac) now. He nearly got me conquered, as through the industrial age and early modern age (for us two, everyone else was far enough behind to have a 1000 score-point lag) he was edging closer and closer to war with me, at the rest of the worlds urging . But then, for whatever reason, he warmed up a little, and I got him involved in a war against the americans and persians, giving him enough on his hands that he didn't pursue a spaceship, allowing me, with my relatively inferior territory size and quality, to win.Did you enjoy my story? I hope so. I also hope you could leave further hints for me as I continue to attempt to edge towards Monarch and Beyond. Also, does anyone play the same way I did, extremely aggressive in the beginning, and more passive as time goes on? I have dubbed it the "Mongol Strategy", but is there a more official name?
. Yeah, As a long-time lurker I've read over and over again from Civ 3 Vanilla, to CIV4 BTS that I should rush, increasingly more as CIV4 came out. I always, until recently, assumed that Peaceful strats were able to be accomplished individually from heavy military action. Now, I've finally conceded to myself that having a perfect city is rare and not all that attainable when the choice is really having a city or not. Since this will become even more true as advance up'in the ranks, I am hoping this new, militaristic attitude will increase in influence in my psyche. Until then, I'm playing as a passive-agressive, hippocritical, diplomatically shrewd Eric Cartman-esque Civ. >.< 
