What will your strategy be in your first Civ3 game?

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by UberKruX
me and my fridns have it all worked out.
our first civ game is going to be an all night multiplayer fest.
4 of us banding together and 4 AI civs, on the world map (now 6x larger)
i am germany. william is france. arthur is rome. geoff is england.
the AIs will be castoff Euraisa, the Americans, the Iroquois, the Aztecs, and the Zulu.
we really want to see how this resource trading and culture works out, and if the AIs can handle it.
we can also test the war model, all four of us ganging up on those poor zulu

Are you sure that's a fair fight?

[lupusmalus]

Rome has been destined to rule the world and so she will, no matter what ideas they cooked up to prevent indefinite expansion. Oh, and fair fights are for suckers

[Col Bigspear]

Being English I will start with Britain . Though if that proves to be a slow start i'll be the Ruskies (Close enough until I make a Polish Civ (second Nat.) ). I suppose i'll do as always, play nice 'n' peaceful until I get Nuclear weapons and subs and fill em with NUKES . Then lay about 12 off the cost of North America. Or build Havanna(?) on Cuba and fill it with NUKES (stop us now Kennedy).

The recources are random aren't they?, knowing me i'll never get any Uranium . If the AI anything like me it won't trade it either

[MORON]

try out neo-ICS

If it works that is

[General Ludd]

Maybe I'm alone, but I roleplay in just about every game I play, including civilization. I don't play with any specific strategies, I just go with the flow, and act as a leader of a civilization. Though, sometimes when I am bored I will try to play out a scenario, or with a certain personality and go into a game with specific goals and expectations.

[Edward]

Does anyone know the requirements for a diplomatic win? Someone alluded to it being a popularity contest. In Civ2 that would mean no diplomatic wins after 1750 (or whatever the magic all-the-AI-hate-you date is). Will some AI always achieve diplomatic victory as soon as they all sign secret pacts together?

In Civ2, the AI rarely respected my power. In fact it made them all the more agitated, just less up-front about it. Perhaps a brown-nosing OCCer could get a diplomatic win. "Darn, that single-city civ won yet again! Everyone loves an underdog. His strategy of becoming the smallest, worst, most pitiful civ is unbeatable!" Shall the meek inherit the Earth?

[isaac brock]

one annoying thing in SMAC is that when I vastly overpower a civ, they don't automatically grovel at my feet. I need these factions to realize that i am superior to them, and I deserve surrender. And when they surrender to me, they should not only give me their money and sign a pact to serve me, but they should hand over every one of their military units. My might is unsurpassed, don't tell me you'll fight to the very last man! just give in to every one of my demands.

[Odin]

Originally posted by monolith94
CULTURE!!!

I shall be the mighty Babylonian culture! the pinacle of civilization! A mighty utopia of enlightened citizens!!!

LONG LIVE THE BABYLONIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



ALL HAIL KING HAMMURABI!!!!!

[N35t0r]

I'll probably just start playing with my current Civ 2 strategy, on the World map, as the Russians...

[Provost Harrison]

Well same as ever, but I will take care to defend my front lines and vulnerable positions more stringently than ever until I gauge the level of hostility of my opponents.

[Colonel Kraken]

I will definitely check out diplomacy and trade and culture (i.e. peaceful) to actually see how versatile the new systems really are. I sincerely hope that trade and diplomacy are rich/intricate part of the game.

And, of course, if there is a belligerent country or two who does not wish to bow to my superior culture, I will have to crush them with my armies and teach them a lesson! War is always fun.

In short, though, I will definitely tread peacefully.

[Transcend]

What I'm going to do is to start with a scientific civ, expand like mad, and conquer everybody until there is one enemy city left. Then I'll build a spaceship to AC.

[Master Marcus]

I guess I'll try my "hybrid builder" game type: a peaceful expansion with the maximum diplomatic treaties ( but without a full alliance ) in the first half; therefore a bit warmonger just to become the overall main empire. It worked well with Civ II, MOO2, and Smacx. The addition of cultural improvements will just improve my style of gameplay, but I intend to try all kinds of victory - by the sole exception of the military one, for I have no interest in genocides. Civ is not the ideal platform for this. But I'm sure everyone should find a way with a so promising and customizable Civ 3.

[Christantine The Great]

As usual the peaceful Chrisonian (aka Greek) Republic will expand from their starting position, irrigating and roading every workable tile in a city radius and building cities along the Mediterranean Sea, Persia, and England. Then I will send out settlers to build cities on all of the islands of the world to claim every resource possible. In short my goal is to aquire every resource possible to sell it at high prices to pathetic AI civs. With Currency in my hand and Trade as my crown I shall rule the world by cash! Hum, that's a good civish motto.