I started a game last night as Germany. I started out on a flood plain, and was cranking out settlers. I had 7 cities at about 1200 BC, and from out of no where, Russia proposes a trade: Russia's Territory Map for my Territory map + 23 gold. I felt like that was extortion, so I told Russia to go pound sand.
What was their reaction? War! Not just any war. They had to enlist four other countries against me the turn after their war declaration.
Now I think my first mistake was not contacting my neighboring civs for alliances against the Russians. Regardless, I held off the five country onslaught until 500 AD, when most of the invaders decided thier efforts were futile. Out of the whole war, I got only one leader. I lost 15 or so elite Swordsmen, which shocked me, as Germany is militaristic.
Meanwhile, the Japanese, who were not involved at any point during the war, come at me with knights and samurai. I fought them off for a few turns, and bought them off with my measly 150 gold treasury. So now I'm way behind in techs, and all the other civs are extorting me for cash. The only thing I have going for me is culture; I've been sucking in a few cities.
What can I learn from this game? When attacked for no reason, make alliances against your attacked before he does the same to you? Don't let wars drag on for 1700 years? Don't fight a war in while in despotism? Why were the elite units so ineffective?
What was their reaction? War! Not just any war. They had to enlist four other countries against me the turn after their war declaration.
Now I think my first mistake was not contacting my neighboring civs for alliances against the Russians. Regardless, I held off the five country onslaught until 500 AD, when most of the invaders decided thier efforts were futile. Out of the whole war, I got only one leader. I lost 15 or so elite Swordsmen, which shocked me, as Germany is militaristic.
Meanwhile, the Japanese, who were not involved at any point during the war, come at me with knights and samurai. I fought them off for a few turns, and bought them off with my measly 150 gold treasury. So now I'm way behind in techs, and all the other civs are extorting me for cash. The only thing I have going for me is culture; I've been sucking in a few cities.
What can I learn from this game? When attacked for no reason, make alliances against your attacked before he does the same to you? Don't let wars drag on for 1700 years? Don't fight a war in while in despotism? Why were the elite units so ineffective?
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