Your SID level experiences

[vmxa1]

None stop wars my friend. Lots of MGL's and hence lots of armies.

A beneviolent AI that surrounds a captured city that has only 1 horse and 2 damaged armies (well 10 cats) and does not attack.
One stack at 14 units alone.

Just hoping they keep doing it. But as I get closer to their core, it will take less time for them to reenforce.

[vmxa1]

Year 450 now and if this was PTW, I would be so golden. I have just gotten my 10th MGl, not counting the one I lost on defense.

But it is C3C, so no wonders for MGL's. I kicked India of my land even though they were polite before. The one city had several furs and no interlopers need apply. They are just a few techs ahead of me. I would guess they are on a not too large island. I know where the other civs are more or less and it is not near India.

Make a second peace for tech and gold with Korea and broke it right away. I doubt we will be talking again. They are showing up
with Long Boes and Trebuchet's. So they have at least Invention.

Feudalism in about 5 or 6 turns. Finally getting some markets and libs up. Worried now that Inca have shown up with caravels. This could mean a large invasion force. Someone build Leo's and Copernicus is done as well.

[Drachen]

I'm having trouble attaching an image. I saved a bitmap at about 2.5Mb and tried using the upload service which resulted in a "Page cannot be found message." Tried with a jpg and a zip with no success either. Is it the dialup I'm using perhaps?

[Drachen]

Regular attach isn't working well either. Hmm...

[vmxa1]

Get Irfanview (free). Use it to capture screens, resize to 800 and save as jpeg. Then ou can attach them like mine.

[vmxa1]

Funny how the score works. Korea is in second place about 50% more points than me. I have take almost all of thier land and they are weak compared to me.

I cannot see the rest of the contient yet, but they can't have much left.

I did get off the bottom. I am 4th instead of 6th. The problem is of course no wonders.

[Drachen]

Much better; thanks Vmxa1.

I thought this might be helpful as a comparison. The GL yields some nice tech gains but I doubt that I could have managed a long drawn out war as successfully as Vmxa1 while building it and as a result my territory is smaller. I also have had no MGL's and so no Heroic epic or armies. My war with the Inca is 1 turn old and I'm about to take Ica which is their only city on my landmass. That part went well but I was later surprised that a forest landing (on the pink Incan landmass) of about 12 Swiss Mercenaries and 4 medieval infantry was completely wiped out in one turn. I would have done better to fend off Incan assaults, get a leader/army/epic, and then sue for peace until a much bigger landing party could be assembled from the horsemen I’m upgrading to knights at 120 gold each.

[Paddy]

Vmxa1,

I am enjoying your experiences here.

I would like to encourage you to enter this into a new thread in the Civ III Stories Forum at:

http://apolyton.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=139

This way more people will get the opportunity to enjoy what you have been going through.

[vmxa1]

The people down there are very skill story tellers and I am rather weak on the imagination. But feel free to run one of your own with it.

[vmxa1]

Drachen did you build the GL on Sid? Was is the settings? I have gone to 600AD so far and have yet to finish my 2nd middle age tech. I am researching at a moderate rate. I put in as much as I can and not go in the whole.
Right now that is 40%.
97 Sci
115 Corruption
36 Entertainment
85 Maint
11 Unit Support

[vmxa1]

I have 100 troops and 6 armies in the field. Nothing the Koreans can do. I will eliminate them soon. I am going as fast as my armies can get healed and I can get the cats in place. I stuck with the original 12, so 100 troops and 12 cats.
I have embassy with all the civs that I am not at war with.
I am at peace now with Inca, India and Arabia. At war with Korea and Celts. I have been at war with the celts since soon after I met them, but they have not shown up. They are in first place.

Inca traded me their map for an extra 8 gold, so I took that and can see most of the map now. I did it as I have no open land for them to settle in anyway.

[Paddy]

Originally posted by vmxa1
The people down there are very skill story tellers and I am rather weak on the imagination. But feel free to run one of your own with it.

I challenge what you are saying here.

You have a great yarn, and I believe that you should copy these very posts to that Forum.

It is your decision, for it is your game.

Yet, please believe me when I say that you are writing a story here.

Hope you take up the challenge, but if you do not, please keep posting here, I like reading them.

Paddy

[Drachen]

Originally posted by vmxa1
Drachen did you build the GL on Sid? Was is the settings? I have gone to 600AD so far and have yet to finish my 2nd middle age tech. I am researching at a moderate rate. I put in as much as I can and not go in the whole.
Right now that is 40%.
97 Sci
115 Corruption
36 Entertainment
85 Maint
11 Unit Support

"The setting: Beta 1.15, SID, Standard map, wet, warm, old, sedentary barbs, default rules, lowest aggression, Netherlands facing Inca, Maya, Ottomans, Chinese, Sumerians, and Celts. This is one less opponent than usual." The save game from 720AD is on page four of this thread. Civ is an amazingly well balanced game as a look at our two 450AD games shows. As a Republic it's difficult to increase my army with 1/2 the cities you have and still keep up in research. That makes my empire somewhat weak. You are supporting a larger army but your units are even more outdated than mine. If we get hit with stacks of infantry we're going to be in trouble unless we can buy our way out. There are tradeoffs whatever you choose to do.

I am impressed by what you have been able to accomplish with your militaristic strat and so I intend to increase my military component by creating a killing zone on the resource rich Incan island and take his attacks until I deplete him but the Ai's all have huge numbers of troops and I don't have a very good feel yet for the numbers of troops I'll need. I'm with Paddy and hope you keep on posting.

Hey Jimmytrick...where's that DAR? I want to hear more about your tech stealing and whether you've found a way to achieve tech parity in the Industrial.

How's the Royal Navy doing Paddy?

cheers

[vmxa1]

Paddy maybe after I finish I will take look at it. I am still in a shaky spot here.

[Paddy]

but that is a great hook that you have and that would be so good in the story forum

my apologies, I do not mean to preach