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I just bought the game a few weeks ago (I know I'm late) and after playing a game at chieftian just to get the feeling of it and reading some of the strategies here I decided to try one of the most used strategies at noble difficult.
I went with Rome on a Standars Marathon speed Continent map and was lucky to get a lot of floodplain inside Rome's city radius, I was in my continent alone with just Montezuma on the other end of it, so there was time to try for the slingshot which succeeded, I was amazed in seeing how fast I could do my research after that.
I discovered the other civs (Mansa Musa, Inca (can't remember the leader name), Gandhi, Washington and Hatsheput) who were lying on the only other big continent in the map and when I was strong enough I kicked Monty out of mine, gaining the Pyramids as well.
After many turns I got the UN, I was by far the big dog with only Washington keeping up with my tech rate and only Gandhi better than me on the military, but just 1 turn before I could rush the UN the two signed a permanent alliance (d'oh!).
After the first UN call for victory I saw I needed both Mansa Musa's and the Incans votes in order to win (Hatsheput was voting for me, Mansa Musa for Washington/Gandhi and the Incans abstaining) but gaining both votes was impossible since Inca and Mali were worst enemies so I just thoght that diplo victory was no longer an option and decided to try for a conquest or domination victory.
I rushed a good cavalry and granatier army and a few Galleons and Frigates and went straight for India, my first objective was to weaken my best rivals and get a foothold on that continent, I even managed to bribe Mansa Musa to declare war against Washington/Gandhi.
I unleashed my whole army against Delhi and razed it, conquering a 2 size town the Indians had settled on the tundras in my continent as well.
As soon as I razed Delhi the UN called for another resolution and just for the sake of it I decided to try for another diplo victory chance.
This time Mansa Musa voted for me (he was happy we were fighting together against the evil Washington/Gandhi, he didn't care he was best pal with them just 5 turns earlier and betrayed them only to get Physics and Chemistry). This, added with the "votes" I razed from the Indian, allowed me to gain my victory (wich I must say, was the fastest I could ever manage in any Civ game winning in 1492).
Now a question arise: Is it "correct" that the game allows diplo victory for a player who just slaugheterd a 16 size city?
Anyway I guess I should try a Prince game next
PS: i have the Italian version of Civ so forgive me if some units or techs are misstranslated, and also forgive me for any misspelling and grammar mistake I surely did in writing this message (the "spell check" button only gave me a blank page).
PPS: I also must thank courdelion and Velociryx as this game was played with their tactics and strategies in my mind
I just bought the game a few weeks ago (I know I'm late) and after playing a game at chieftian just to get the feeling of it and reading some of the strategies here I decided to try one of the most used strategies at noble difficult.
I went with Rome on a Standars Marathon speed Continent map and was lucky to get a lot of floodplain inside Rome's city radius, I was in my continent alone with just Montezuma on the other end of it, so there was time to try for the slingshot which succeeded, I was amazed in seeing how fast I could do my research after that.
I discovered the other civs (Mansa Musa, Inca (can't remember the leader name), Gandhi, Washington and Hatsheput) who were lying on the only other big continent in the map and when I was strong enough I kicked Monty out of mine, gaining the Pyramids as well.
After many turns I got the UN, I was by far the big dog with only Washington keeping up with my tech rate and only Gandhi better than me on the military, but just 1 turn before I could rush the UN the two signed a permanent alliance (d'oh!).
After the first UN call for victory I saw I needed both Mansa Musa's and the Incans votes in order to win (Hatsheput was voting for me, Mansa Musa for Washington/Gandhi and the Incans abstaining) but gaining both votes was impossible since Inca and Mali were worst enemies so I just thoght that diplo victory was no longer an option and decided to try for a conquest or domination victory.
I rushed a good cavalry and granatier army and a few Galleons and Frigates and went straight for India, my first objective was to weaken my best rivals and get a foothold on that continent, I even managed to bribe Mansa Musa to declare war against Washington/Gandhi.
I unleashed my whole army against Delhi and razed it, conquering a 2 size town the Indians had settled on the tundras in my continent as well.
As soon as I razed Delhi the UN called for another resolution and just for the sake of it I decided to try for another diplo victory chance.
This time Mansa Musa voted for me (he was happy we were fighting together against the evil Washington/Gandhi, he didn't care he was best pal with them just 5 turns earlier and betrayed them only to get Physics and Chemistry). This, added with the "votes" I razed from the Indian, allowed me to gain my victory (wich I must say, was the fastest I could ever manage in any Civ game winning in 1492).
Now a question arise: Is it "correct" that the game allows diplo victory for a player who just slaugheterd a 16 size city?
Anyway I guess I should try a Prince game next
PS: i have the Italian version of Civ so forgive me if some units or techs are misstranslated, and also forgive me for any misspelling and grammar mistake I surely did in writing this message (the "spell check" button only gave me a blank page).
PPS: I also must thank courdelion and Velociryx as this game was played with their tactics and strategies in my mind
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