Hi! I'm the Pathetic newbie. llo! Anyway, Lemme explain my problem, my solution, and beg for help.
I was playing Civ:2 ToT(Yeah, well, it had the nicest box and I knew it was civilization, so I bought it. I said I was a newbie. <g>)
I was doing great, set it up on Bloodlust, was having a great time building up a big-nasty empire(Granted, I continually am at war with everyone I meet, but one assumes that that ~always~ happens)
The problem was, I was sick of war and wanted to end it, go to republic and jump a few lightyears ahead via Technology. My enemies didn't like that idea, thought instead I should keep fighting until the other, larger civs ate us all.
Well, in order to get peace, I had to either build a good navy to keep the Carthaginians in the North from moving in and Pillaging everything, and build defenses in my south, to keep the Persians from continually annoying me. The problem is, the Persians refuse to not be at war, I'd give em Money, or tech, one turn later they'd ask for more, I'd refuse..back at war.
I'm Winning the war, of course, but the AI doesn't realize that unless you take a city. So I had to take a city away. I Had Sun Tzu's and great Happiness wonders, I Built about 10 Vetern Knights(I Love Knights!) and sent em charging down to maim the enemy.
Lost every last one of them, too.
Now, the problem is this, my opponent has Great-wall. His Pikemen are butchering my nice, expensive soldiers, and generally stopping my advances into his empire, I don't have the money to make a full out diplomatic attack(Heck, if I switch to republic, I have a rioting public if I try to stay at war)
So, I decided to be nasty.
I got 3 Veteren Catapaults..Allow me to make a note. I HATE SLOW ARTILLARY! I like Legions, early on, cause they have the defense to shrug off an archer or warrior, or something, even if they are crummy offensively.
But Artillery(Catapaults, Cannon, Artillery, etc) are those 1 movers with high Offense and 1 defense, which means a warror can whack em.
Well, I decided to be a jerk, I took my Vetern Knights (defense 2+1) and moves em, and put the catapaults on top of em...stacking.
Now, if the enemy attacks, my highest defense(3) will defend for both. I then used my Catapaults absuurdly high(9!) attack, killed off the defenders, took the city, and ended the war.
Now, my questions: Any advice? How do ya'll handle an early military rush? I normally hate military fighting before gunpowder, because It's hard to take a city, but I really didn't have a choice in this case.
What should I have done?
I was playing Civ:2 ToT(Yeah, well, it had the nicest box and I knew it was civilization, so I bought it. I said I was a newbie. <g>)
I was doing great, set it up on Bloodlust, was having a great time building up a big-nasty empire(Granted, I continually am at war with everyone I meet, but one assumes that that ~always~ happens)
The problem was, I was sick of war and wanted to end it, go to republic and jump a few lightyears ahead via Technology. My enemies didn't like that idea, thought instead I should keep fighting until the other, larger civs ate us all.
Well, in order to get peace, I had to either build a good navy to keep the Carthaginians in the North from moving in and Pillaging everything, and build defenses in my south, to keep the Persians from continually annoying me. The problem is, the Persians refuse to not be at war, I'd give em Money, or tech, one turn later they'd ask for more, I'd refuse..back at war.
I'm Winning the war, of course, but the AI doesn't realize that unless you take a city. So I had to take a city away. I Had Sun Tzu's and great Happiness wonders, I Built about 10 Vetern Knights(I Love Knights!) and sent em charging down to maim the enemy.
Lost every last one of them, too.
Now, the problem is this, my opponent has Great-wall. His Pikemen are butchering my nice, expensive soldiers, and generally stopping my advances into his empire, I don't have the money to make a full out diplomatic attack(Heck, if I switch to republic, I have a rioting public if I try to stay at war)
So, I decided to be nasty.
I got 3 Veteren Catapaults..Allow me to make a note. I HATE SLOW ARTILLARY! I like Legions, early on, cause they have the defense to shrug off an archer or warrior, or something, even if they are crummy offensively.
But Artillery(Catapaults, Cannon, Artillery, etc) are those 1 movers with high Offense and 1 defense, which means a warror can whack em.
Well, I decided to be a jerk, I took my Vetern Knights (defense 2+1) and moves em, and put the catapaults on top of em...stacking.
Now, if the enemy attacks, my highest defense(3) will defend for both. I then used my Catapaults absuurdly high(9!) attack, killed off the defenders, took the city, and ended the war.
Now, my questions: Any advice? How do ya'll handle an early military rush? I normally hate military fighting before gunpowder, because It's hard to take a city, but I really didn't have a choice in this case.
What should I have done?
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