Democracy Fascism or Communism

[steven8r]

It seems to me that the AI's will ALWAYS go to Fascism for Industrial Age (and beyond) wars. It used to be that they would always go Communism, but since C3C, Fascism seems to be the gov't of choice for the AI.

It seems to me that a 'good rule of thumb' would be to NOT do what the AI does--since it mostly loses. Therefore, I would recommend something other than Fascism.

I haven't even tried it yet, so the above statement is purely conjecture.

Steven

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by CerberusIV
I still find Democracy perfectly acceptable for warmongering given 2 provisos.

1 You have Universal Suffrage and police stations in your major/core cities and plenty of luxuries to keep the population happy.

2 You hammer one AI civ into oblivion then make peace with any others and wait for the WW to dissipate. Then repeat.

Those are some very large gotchas. By the time you have Sufferage and Police.............

[UnOrthOdOx]

Being a fan of the pop-rush, I have always been a fan of Communism.

There is nothing quite like taking that enemies size 16 city, starving them all into tax men while at the same time pop rushing such things as barracks, walls, temples, and anything else I think my troops might enjoy.

Would stand to reason that Fundy would offer a similar approach some merit, Minus, of course the ability to rush the temple...Then, that draft button might just become rather appealing in those conquered towns under Fundy...

[Theseus]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Pop cuts were pretty drastic and happened pretty much without warning - cities of 12 or 13 went down to 9.

That sounds friggin' HORRIBLE! How was it after that?

[Alexander's Horse]

I went to communism. It seems to work better than fascism with a large civ - I've got about 40 cities.

[CerberusIV]

Originally posted by vmxa1
Those are some very large gotchas. By the time you have Sufferage and Police.............

I rarely fail to get US. The AI's start building it as soon as they get Industrialisation, before they put a factory or coal plant into that city. Even if they get the tech 10-12 turns before I do (monarch level) I find that a factory prebuild, coal plant and RRing all the tiles round that city as a priority is enough to build it first.

I don't often fight late medieval wars unless to finally clear my starting continent and tend to wait for tanks and bombers to take enough territory overseas to clinch domination. Picking your offensive wars is not too difficult in those circumstances - but it does depend on map and playstyle.