civ3 world records?

[Dunnagan]

I was just getting my ass handed to me for the umpteenth time on Deity/huge, and was wondering if there was a 'fastest win' in a deity/huge game?

a quick sub-question, what do you do when you lose out on the iron, and don't want to go to war? Every time I try to be the nice peaceful guy, they gank a necessary thing like iron, basically putting me out of the game unless I wage war.

it really resembles real life, in a way. the tough people that take what they want are feared and respected, while the peaceful guy that listens to michael bolton gets the beat down. Hehe.

anyway,

I'll have a settler like 2 squares away from the iron then bam, I'll see their color-coded border where I was planning to place my city. This is usually when I lose my temper and roll up with 15 archers outside the homeworld..my magnificent primitive ape-like tactic


Dunnagan

[vmxa1]

Look here:

http://hof.civfanatics.net/index.php

[Dunnagan]

Originally posted by vmxa1
Look here:

http://hof.civfanatics.net/index.php

Thanks again, vx.

[Aeson]

There haven't been any 'early' victories on Huge/Deity maps in the HOF. Generally the well-milked victories on those settings hit the Domination limit ~1000AD, but they delay victory until 2050AD to get as many points as possible.

[Dunnagan]

Originally posted by Aeson
There haven't been any 'early' victories on Huge/Deity maps in the HOF. Generally the well-milked victories on those settings hit the Domination limit ~1000AD, but they delay victory until 2050AD to get as many points as possible.

I should have posted that I meant speedkill, where points are meaningless

[Aeson]

I was just pointing out that those games are 'speedkill'... that are played out avoiding the final victory. Generally the Domination 'victory' occurs around 1000AD on a well played Deity/Huge map... so that gives you a good idea of what the best players can do in those situations.

I'm pretty sure you could get a sub-800AD Diplomatic victory though.

[Dunnagan]

Originally posted by Aeson
There haven't been any 'early' victories on Huge/Deity maps in the HOF. Generally the well-milked victories on those settings hit the Domination limit ~1000AD, but they delay victory until 2050AD to get as many points as possible.

my idea of speedkill isn't milking, or postponing the final victory.

speedkill, in my book, is a complete elimination of all races as fast as you can with absolutely no procrastination or postponement.

I just got killed on deity/small, Carthage and Babylon teamed up on me with their uu's...

theres just absolutely nothing you can do at that point when they arrive with 6 of each UU outside your hometown, I had a wall and 5 spearmen in the city they attacked. Somewhat prepared. Just can't stand up against those mercinaries, wall or no wall. Immediately when I saw the 12 UU's inc I began rush producing my best unit, spearmen, and moved my entire army of archers towards carthage, knowing a few of his cities would only have 1 or 2 defenders in it

I had no artillery and even the bowman are decent defenders, so attacking them was out of the question even with my 7 archer army. I ran the archers to Carthage's dye town and got that, but my capital and surrounding cities had been taken already so I was pretty much out of the game. fun stuff..

sorry for long off-topic post but it was on my mind

[Aeson]

The point is, 1000AD is the date you are looking for. That's about the point when you can finish off the AI's in a Huge/Deity game. Whether players in that situation choose to do so or not is irrellevent.

[Theseus]

"Gank"?

[Bragelonne]

Sorry, but I just cannot understand how you could destroy every other civ in a Deiti-Huge map by 1000 AD.

Just can´t plan a way in which to do so.

Man, distances are just ENORMOUS!

(By the way, AD meant after Christ, ain ´t)

[vmxa1]

Yes, but now the correctness crowd prefers C.E.

[Bragelonne]

C.E. Let´s see... What that meants to be?
"Cafter Echrist"?

[vmxa1]

In English it stands for Christian Era, I think.

[Bragelonne]

Ok, Acknowledged

[Theseus]

C.E. = Common Era, I think.

Bragelonne, you'd be amazed at what some of the top top players have done at Deity and Sid... I am.