6th Apolyton Civ3 Tournament : 9-28/Feb/2002

[White Elk]

Thanks Bloodaxe for the current results.
I'm also surprised at the lack of entries, must have been the new patch. Also surprised that there was no Conquest victories.

Sulla As stated earlier being weaker than the AI militarily, culturely, and scientificly are reasons for their disdain. Also if your stronger than the AI in those regards or have broken any peace agreements you will also earn their distrust. And I'm not certain but I beleive that certain types of governments will also cause the dislike of certain tribes.

[Renso]

Didn't add the zip file before.

Hope this works

[JediSloth]

My first ever tournament game, and only third attempt at 'monarch' level - yikes!

Attacked the germans early on with half a dozen archers, took all their (3?)cities bar one (some lucky attacks on my part I think...), then got several advances plus cash from them for peace. I left them the one city hoping to treat them as a vassal state, a few turns later they demanded cash off me (what??), I refused - they declared war - I destroyed them.

Sailed north, met babys and english, the former gifting me wish cash (without being threatened!), attacked the english, but didnt have enough forces to do the job properly, and had to sue for peace, having only taken two or three of their cities.

Major screwup on my part - started building pyramids in Delhi, idea being to switch to GL after, and I FORGOT to change production (nooooo.....), result = I build pyramids on a small island with about 6 cities - all of which have maxed out at size 6 already, no rivers or aquaducts (yet), or are hardly growing anyway due to all the jungle. Nice one Dave...

Rest of game was spent fighting just about everybody else at one time or another.

[JediSloth]

Second attempt at adding save game file.....

was space race victory in 2022, for about 2700 points.

[BillChin]

This is my first post on Apolyton, some may know my nickname from the Civfanatics board.

My tourney game is an endless war. I attack the Germans right off. I am used to seeing units on top of cities (preferences) so I got faked into believing the Germans had an undefended city. I could have lost the game right there if the Germans had built archers and came after me hard. As it was, I stationed a warrior on a mountain and the German archers tried to take him out, but could not. That was about the only moment of doubt in the entire game.

I built the capital on the dye icon, making it easy for me to claim the iron. I built swordsmen, and crush the Germans. Wait for mapmaking tech to get the English. The English sue for peace as my troops approach London, so I turn my troops against the Babylonians. I do not use pop rushing for my first army, but later in the game I use it all the time.

That brings up a big question: Have you guys decided what to do for the next game? Pop rushing with captured workers is a powerful technique in version 1.17f and is almost as good as old fashioned 1.16 pop rushing. The technique is to use a junk city with an entertainer, join workers, then pop them for units.

Back to my game, Babylon has zero chance, though they do get off a settler to a distant island. The 20 turns are way over on the English peace treaty and I bash them and they send off a lost settler as well. No matter, I am at war and am going to stay at war. I stay in Despotism the entire game to use pop rushing to create more units.

The Chinese are next. Then the Egyptians, and the Zulu. None of them have any chance against my mass of troops. I ally with the Romans because they look too weak to threaten me. They remain my allies for the rest of the game, never backstabbing me. The last war is against Japan and Domination comes in 1806. Score about 4000, could have milked it for much more, but I find milking a game for points to be tedious and boring.

[AeroPrinz]

My greatest game in Civ3!
My highest score in Civ3!
Two days of playing from early morning to the midnight!

[philler]

how about stating at least the type of victory, the year and the score in your message?

[AeroPrinz]

Year: 1275 AD
Score: 5166
World Domination
But I was not far from elumination of all nations!

[PFREMONT]

The unbreakable spearman

The unbreakable spearman

I'm not finished with the game. Probably tomorrow.
But look at this.
Sometimes I just wonder if the AI does not cheat…
890 AD, here I am right in front of Babylon, Capital of the Babylonian Empire, with 13 veteran or elite units ready to fight. 5 Babylonians archers and spearmen have just left the Capital city.
They apparently went for Ur where some smaller fighting is going on.
They Left alone to defend their main city one single regular spearman.
This single spearman will defeat :
·One vet horsemen
·A second vet horseman
·My swordsman army of strength 13 (one elite and 2 veteran swordsman)
·A vet swordsman (and got promoted to veteran)
·A second vet swordsman (end go promoted to elite)
·And will finally be defeated by an Elite swordsman…
I replayed from autosave and same thing happened.
So you can try it, too : it’s just amazing !

[LarryLard]

Originally posted by White Elk
I was still considering a peacefull victory at that point, but the Persians had a little over half as much culture as I did and so were a threat for the Culture Victory

How is it possible to tell how much culture other civs have? Has it been posted somewhere what the descriptions ('impressed', 'admirers' etc) mean?

[heysewa]

Diplomatic victory

I finally figured out how login in and post. I achieved my first diplomatic victory in 1886 with 2446 points. My goal was a culture or space victory, but somewhere along the way I made friends with almost everyone. Built the Colossus in the capital early shortly after expanding to the continent to the northeast. England declared war and Gemany followed just before completion. One of them brought the Greeks into the conflict. I had already aborbed Leipzig due to culture.

The Colossus triggered my Golden age. I lost one City on the northeastern continent to the English, then trounced the Germans and English with swordsman. I accepted peace with the Greeks with no battles. I left the English with 3 or 4 cities and the Germans with 1 or 2.

I built the forbidden palace in Oxford on the northeastern continent without a leader. During this long peaceful interlude I colonized the continent south of the main Japanese land and secured spices and wine by out culturing the Japanese.

In the late middle ages I made deals with most of the other civs giving them tech for money. I was receiving between 500 and 1000 gold per turn. This made it easy to rush build and pay cash.

In the late industrial age/early modern I agree to some mutual protection agreements with the English, Romans, and Germans and waited for a war. Both the Romans and Germans were at war with Japan prior to the mutual protection agreements. I airlifted my army to the shared continent and proceeded to kick butt.

I sued for peace when the continent was secured, but one city promptly revolted. Then I just coasted to the end.

I'll attach the file later after I get it off my other machine and zip it.

[La Fayette]

SS launched in 1898

My long story seems to have disappeared after I sent it.
Here is the short one:
I had decided to aim at diplomatic victory and built the UN in 1786, but could never get a majority. I gifted techs and gold and tried to be nice to anyone: no way; until I finally built a SS under far from optimal conditions and launched it in 1898.
Has anyone studied the Diplomatic Victory and could give advice about how to buy votes?

[AeroPrinz]

Best Victory comes with a sword! Forget about diplomatic victory!

[La Fayette]

Originally posted by AeroPrinz
Year: 1275 AD
Score: 5166
World Domination
But I was not far from elumination of all nations!

IMO it would be very interesting for us all if you gave some more details. If you achieve world domination five centuries sooner than anyone else, we sure have a lot to learn from you.

[AeroPrinz]

Ok, I'll tell you. But right now I have no time, today after work I will right more.