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Any hope of turning this position into victory?
I have not been playing Civ4 long, and have deliberately avoided copying all the advice on here (which I did for Civ 2 and 3) to give myself more of a challenge.
The attached save is vanilla Civ 4 with patches. Large map, normal timescale, Prince level (I rashly moved up after one win and a couple of near misses at Noble).
The question is: "Do you think I can feasibly win under any victory conditions, given my current position? If so, how?".
I will freely admit that as I learn to play Civ, I have not yet learned to plot a strategy beyond the middle game - no focus on a tech path or victory conditions, no thinking forward to desirable civics or wonders. So I end up in a muddle.
This game I determined to improve my military management - being better defended , managing battles better (still trying to lose old Civ habits). This I have done to a pleasing extent, mainly thanks to wonderful Cossacks, which have truly been a pleasure to deploy.
To summarise where I am now - I am several techs behind the top 2-3 civs. I have an underpowered economy and science, and not too many cities with a lot of production capabiity. I have more unhappiness and ill health than normal, and almost no great leader production (still not managed to generate a prophet to build my shrine for Christianity, which I founded and has spread magnificently.
I started to struggle tech wise some time back, so I decided to see if I could fight my way to victory. After finally taking the Roman cities to the south, I invaded SPain (which had attacked me several times) and everyone else declared war on me. I was pleased to hold them off, especially the artillery and SAMs of the persians, but did not make any significant gains, although I got peace for 500 gold eventually!
So - is it worth carrying on, or should I start anew? Your ideas and critiques would be welcome.
I have not been playing Civ4 long, and have deliberately avoided copying all the advice on here (which I did for Civ 2 and 3) to give myself more of a challenge.
The attached save is vanilla Civ 4 with patches. Large map, normal timescale, Prince level (I rashly moved up after one win and a couple of near misses at Noble).
The question is: "Do you think I can feasibly win under any victory conditions, given my current position? If so, how?".
I will freely admit that as I learn to play Civ, I have not yet learned to plot a strategy beyond the middle game - no focus on a tech path or victory conditions, no thinking forward to desirable civics or wonders. So I end up in a muddle.
This game I determined to improve my military management - being better defended , managing battles better (still trying to lose old Civ habits). This I have done to a pleasing extent, mainly thanks to wonderful Cossacks, which have truly been a pleasure to deploy.
To summarise where I am now - I am several techs behind the top 2-3 civs. I have an underpowered economy and science, and not too many cities with a lot of production capabiity. I have more unhappiness and ill health than normal, and almost no great leader production (still not managed to generate a prophet to build my shrine for Christianity, which I founded and has spread magnificently.
I started to struggle tech wise some time back, so I decided to see if I could fight my way to victory. After finally taking the Roman cities to the south, I invaded SPain (which had attacked me several times) and everyone else declared war on me. I was pleased to hold them off, especially the artillery and SAMs of the persians, but did not make any significant gains, although I got peace for 500 gold eventually!
So - is it worth carrying on, or should I start anew? Your ideas and critiques would be welcome.
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