How do you like to win?

[gunkulator]

I rarely finish a game once it's obvious that I'm going to win. Then again, I tend to play as a war monger.

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by Paddy the Scot


you Sir are a bloody show off

and we would not have it any other way


edit: oh and Domination for me

leave their cities in ruins

I think one of my PBEM civs is on the receiving end of your domination strategies!!!

[maverick69]

Domination and Spaceship

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Dissident
now for an add-on question.

How do you like to lose?

Haven't learned how to do that yet.

[conmcb25]

Any way I can.

[Odin]

Win: Spaceship

Loose: If I go down I'm taking you with me! {I go out in a blaze of nuclear glory).

[madosca]

Domination.
I have done my first match at Conquest coming from PTW.

Even from my juniority, I dear to suggest that this chat is more interesting if we specify the level we play at.

I have played my first match at Chieftein

[barbeerhj]

"LETS CRUSH THEM B*TCHAAAAS !!!!" -Anonymous

Military win is perhaps the funnest way to win, specialy when you don't know if you are gonna get it or not.

Indeed, stomping around with Tanks and bombers is very fun if you are a supreme lead. But, for more equal games, which tend to occure more often on higher levels, it really takes a strategic skill to out-number, out-class, and out-manuever the AI.

And let's not forget a lovely little nuclear holocaust caused by either you or a very aggressive nation that you may have pissed off one way or another.

Indeed, telling the Zulus to "piss-off" was a very bad idea when they erupted a nuclear war with me

-Ron

[Aramis]

Domination.
I used to think that if I won this way it just meant I wasn't good enough to get a conquest victory. But after a while conquest victories felt hollow: no fun steamrolling over infantry with MA.
Now, domination makes me feel like I've succeeded as a builder, a war-mongerer, and a diplomat, all neatly rolled in one.
Spaceship leaves a good feeling, too, especially if it was a tight race to get it done first.

[barbeerhj]

I find it extremly hard to secure a Domination on anything above Monarch level. The AI is ussually very tough and will fight you with a fervent will to win if it has had it's chance to boom. Also, domination ussually comes before conquest if you have the it listed as a possible victory route.

Also, I have always contemplated why they would consider the Space Race a victory. How will sending your settlers to another planet secure a win on earth? I think that would simply enrage people more to know that you bested them in that way.

In response to making your feel like a "builder, a war-monger, and a diplomate", domination really only need's a powerful military and strategicaly placed culture buildings to secure territory, which is often the only thing holding you back for the win.

-Ron

[Aramis]

Originally posted by barbeerhj
In response to making your feel like a "builder, a war-monger, and a diplomate", domination really only need's a powerful military and strategicaly placed culture buildings to secure territory, which is often the only thing holding you back for the win.
-Ron

Ron--
That sounds a bit like bean counting. Yeah, I could do it that way, but where's the fun? Civ is a great escape for me. I like the game to feel somewhat real to me. I know how to exploit the game well (up to emperor level) for my advantage, but it kinda takes the fun out of it.
I'll bean count my way to the next difficulty level, at first, but my fun games, on huge maps (modded 180x180) I try to keep in my escapist fantasy world, where we grow beans but don't count them.

[edit] Beancounting: (n) doing what is only necessary, without imagination.

[Kuciwalker]

Conquest.

[Last Conformist]

If I'm gonna lose, I'm gonna bring the world down in flames around me.

[Kuciwalker]

Nukes

[shmily_dana]

Domination

I love that moment when I realize the opponant has been bled dry and I can run over the rest of him.