Civ 3 Integrity and Fun

[Theseus]

Originally posted by gab169 I will go as far as to take a screen shot of the explored map (zoomed out) and paste it into Powerpoint. I then go through and plan out where I will want all of my cities to be placed, marking them with graphics in the shape of the city radius so that I can see overlaps and the such.

I'm not saying I do the re-load thing, but of course I explore the general area well before I have Settlers ready... so, your Powerpoint approach is just much cleaner than all the fingerprint smudges I leave on my monitor tryin to develop my CP plan!!

[Theseus]

Originally posted by vmxa1
Since this thread title is very cogent for my purposes, let me ask this question:

Is it a cheat, fair or clever to do the following.

I am play a deity game when I finally took over my contient. I see Aztecs and Russians have good size chunks of land and America has been the leader the whole time, till now.


I soon move ahead in the score, but I know I really have not gotten a large enough fleet, nor troops to take on even the smallest civ.

I mustered up 14 galleons and fill them with Inf/Art/Calv and 1 Num Merc. My sole purpose is to land on a hill next to a Mayan city. Take the city and use the NM to trigger my GA and maybe get a leader or two and then gift the city to Japan.

Things go well and I take the city and a small counter attack occurs. It leaves a bunch of 1HP units next to the city. I use the NM and get a GA and a bunch of elite calvs actually gets my first MGL.

I crack an army, sell structures and then gift the city and get out with most of my troops before the big numbers get in their licks.

Now this is something I never have tried before and was not sure the troops would be send to the capitol, but they were.

The evil part is I intend to return with more armies and more ships ASAP and come back to take the Japanese city. The Mayan troops will just stand around and I can regroup. Build a barracks, temple and harbor, maybe a wall before going for the Mayans.

I hope to get even more units in before then to absorb the attack. I figure 4 or 5 inf armies (4 units each) should be able to handle the action with scores of inf and calv and arty to back them up. The Mayans only have 7 cities, so maybe 250 units? I have taken the city back now and there are two stacks of 50 or so on the hills next to it (Mayans).

So is this way out of line or marginal or just smart?

Slick move... not a cheat or exploit at all. There are relevant RL examples, going back to the Pelopennesian Wars at least.

[vmxa1]

I am glad you approve T. Now about those babs.........

[Theseus]

Yeah, I coulda gone after them... your trick would have been nice. Faster just to bang out the SS, and I have slaked enough late-game blood recently.