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  • Why conquest?

    Is there any reason to go for a conquest victory rather than a domination victory on a large map? Isn't it always better to keep the cities and grow rather than burn them down?

  • #2
    I really enjoy conquest as the only victory condition occasionally.

    Sometimes unleashing the hyordes is more fun than building cities and trade networks etc

    (But of course only when you are winning )
    I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.

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    • #3
      Conquest
      THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
      AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
      AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
      DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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      • #4
        LOL! Yes sir, Shiva!

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        • #5
          Conquest, if you actually manage to pull it off, is a satisfying victory. You haven't merely asserted your Civ into unquestioned leadership over the world, you have crushed all opposition beneath your heel

          And, by the end of it, if you don't have some named units with more promotions than you can shake a stick at, I would be very surprised.
          O'Neill: I'm telling you Teal'c, if we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it.

          Lose it. It means, Go crazy. Nuts. Insane. Bonzo. No longer in possession of one's faculties. Three fries short of a Happy Meal. WACKO!

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          • #6
            Down with domination, conquest is the way to go

            I always disable domination, as it seems like a cheap version of conquest (it doesn't give you the feeling that you actually won)
            This space is empty... or is it?

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            • #7
              About the only way to win a conquest without first trigering a domination would be to burn a lot of cities. Another choice would be to win VERY early, like when the AI only has a couple of cities each.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by samspock
                About the only way to win a conquest without first trigering a domination would be to burn a lot of cities. Another choice would be to win VERY early, like when the AI only has a couple of cities each.
                On a very large map? Your triemers would never get to the AI in time or would they, I can't imagine puling that kind of victory on anything higher thatn noble.
                I'm not buying BtS until Firaxis impliments the "contiguous cultural border negates colony tax" concept.

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                • #9
                  Conquest can actually be easier as well as more fun, because you do not have the horrific management costs which will absolutely destroy your civ if you expand rapidly (especially before you can switch to State Property). The money you get from looting and destoying cities keeps cash up so you can have 100 or 90 percent research. Also, you don't get the war weariness from the conquered populace to cause problems.

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                  • #10
                    And now with Complete Kills it is even more fun
                    I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.

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                    • #11
                      Conquest
                      THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
                      AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                      AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                      DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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                      • #12
                        Conquest
                        Complete Kills
                        I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.

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                        • #13
                          Peace, and love!
                          I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
                            Peace, and love!


                            I agree sometimes - usually when the AI is more powerful than me
                            I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.

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                            • #15
                              I pulled off a conquest on a small pangea with two ai's on immortal. Only immortal win I have had so far. Quecha rush rules!

                              Yeah, I know, I set it up for that but hey it's an immortal win!

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