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In my last game (deity, 7 civs, raging, no restart, other Parameters medium) my Romans managed to erase the Persians and the Sioux about 2000 B.C. I had a good start - 10 techs. The first tech to research: Monarchy.
So we were 5 - Romans, Zulus, Spanish, Vikings and Carthaginans who struggled for reaching AC. I was (as usually) the most powerful nation on earth and built nearly all wonders (except Colossus, Copernicus and the Great Wall). My two wonder building cities, Veii and Rome, had 4 Specials each, among them coal and iron. On the "wings" of my empire (West: Little Big Horn, east: Persepolis) were size-4 cities producing tons of settlers. (Note: the continent had the shape of the greek Omega).
(Note: Perhaps I destroyed the key civ - Sioux?) So the research was very slow - and my swarming horses, chariots and elephants had found lots of techs - invention in 2500 B.C.!)
The Zulus, my direct neighbours in the east, sat on a midlle-sized continent next to mine. I bribed 3 of their cities, then the rest of their 10-cities-empire. Zimbabwe was taken by some dragoons.
The remaining civs were on a huge continent west of mine, and I managed to bribe about 50 (!) cities during the centuries. Only some cities (the capitals) were nuked and taken by my paratroopers. Madrid, a size 19-city, was poisoned to death until it had size 1, then it was destroyed by my artillerx.
Money wasn't the problem. Lots of my cities had airpots to send freights all over the world. Nearly all my cities celebrated "we love"-days (luxury rate 30-50%). In the last years of the game there was a global warming - my vet spies nuked a little bit too much (
). But my empire grew.
I finished the game with a new personal record of about 500 % (yes, I am nuts ...), bribing the last remaining AI city on earth, Jorvik, in 2017.
So my final question:
How do you conquer the world? Do you produce tons of military units? Or do you prefer to bribe like me?
So we were 5 - Romans, Zulus, Spanish, Vikings and Carthaginans who struggled for reaching AC. I was (as usually) the most powerful nation on earth and built nearly all wonders (except Colossus, Copernicus and the Great Wall). My two wonder building cities, Veii and Rome, had 4 Specials each, among them coal and iron. On the "wings" of my empire (West: Little Big Horn, east: Persepolis) were size-4 cities producing tons of settlers. (Note: the continent had the shape of the greek Omega).
(Note: Perhaps I destroyed the key civ - Sioux?) So the research was very slow - and my swarming horses, chariots and elephants had found lots of techs - invention in 2500 B.C.!)
The Zulus, my direct neighbours in the east, sat on a midlle-sized continent next to mine. I bribed 3 of their cities, then the rest of their 10-cities-empire. Zimbabwe was taken by some dragoons.
The remaining civs were on a huge continent west of mine, and I managed to bribe about 50 (!) cities during the centuries. Only some cities (the capitals) were nuked and taken by my paratroopers. Madrid, a size 19-city, was poisoned to death until it had size 1, then it was destroyed by my artillerx.
Money wasn't the problem. Lots of my cities had airpots to send freights all over the world. Nearly all my cities celebrated "we love"-days (luxury rate 30-50%). In the last years of the game there was a global warming - my vet spies nuked a little bit too much (
). But my empire grew.I finished the game with a new personal record of about 500 % (yes, I am nuts ...), bribing the last remaining AI city on earth, Jorvik, in 2017.
So my final question:
How do you conquer the world? Do you produce tons of military units? Or do you prefer to bribe like me?
So I'll sack some more cities to vent.
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