Strategies to Try Out

[Inverse Icarus]

anyway, i like the slave/trader ideas. taking enemy workers and selling them to the higest bidder.

another strategy that could work is the "nuke the hell out of anything that is a different color from you" strategy.

but pumping out impis that run and and stack with enemy workers as they run to your boat seems like fun... too bad i'm the germans.

guess i'll wait for PANZERS to stack on top of those enemy workers.

[Bosh]

Hmmm, how about building settlers. And then some more settlers. Then more

[Inverse Icarus]

and then your 50 roadless, improvementless, cities get swarmed by an AI culture and start getting subverted.

better smack them down.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Yeah. i think ill be either Americans, Germans or Greeks

-Blitzkrieg (i invented this a minute ago )

Take 3 armies of Panzers, roll over France/Joan of Arc

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Heres another

-Sitzkrieg

Take 1000 b-2 stealth bomber and pulverize France back into the Stone Age.

[Sarxis]

The Microwaved TV Dinner-

Build 1000 nukes and make a bag of Jiffy-Pop popcorn; then simply unleash.

[make sure your citizens have plenty of sunblock though]


oh, btw- the popcorn is just for you to eat while you watch the show.

[Skanky Burns]

Hey, how about this one??

Find heaps of resources, trade them for a low price with the other civs, give them tech advances now and then. Then build the UN wonder, and get yourself elected leader of the world!!

Nah, will never work

[Sava]

I'm going to build two or three little puny cities within my empire and devote them to unit production. These cities can be within one city radius since I don't want them to grow. They will not be converted because they will be close to my capital which will be culturific! Then I will just pump out UU's and just send them out on military campaigns. I figure, if these cities are by an area of hills or mountains, their production will be high enough to pump out units every 4 or 5 turns each. With almost a unit per turn just from those cities, I will overwhelm the AI.

[Bleyn]

If tech stealing is out, then I would propose the Modified Wombat Manuvear.

The modification is that you specifially sell the city to a civ that is close to yours and has a lower culture rating. The lower the better. With any luck, the city leaders will come crying back to you begging to be let back in within turns.

I can see some potential advantages to this. One is that you won't have to attack the city or anything like that. Another, so far as I know, is that regaining the city this way can't be called an act of war.

Even if tech stealing is still there, this might be a good way of going about it.


BTW, if you sell a city does it lose its cultral rating in the same way capturing damages it?

[Boliao]

I used this in diety Civ2. I was the Chinese and was 10 techs below the Indians and a very poor civ. I captured one of their pop21 cities (got a free tech plus lotsa gold) and withdrew my units. They recaptured it,(they got 20 gold). I recaptured it (got a free tech plus lotsa gold)....etc.

I continued until I was on par with them in Tech and $$ ....By then the poor city's population dropped to 1 or 2. Oh yah I forgot, I sold an improvement every turn.

[Boliao]

I call the above "City exchange" strategy

[splangy]

Mongol Rush (edit the game so mongels take the place of Iroquiose for max enjoyment)

Build a sprawling empire of crap cities, then build horsemen units like theres no tommorow, then find a unsuspecting victim...

Take a ****e-load of Horseys and ambush the empires workers/settlers/defenceless, capturable units untill his empire is reduced to alotta cities, but no infastructure. Then attak each city once just to test it, if its like a warriors and chariots garrison attack until it falls, if its a hoplite and swordsmen garrison just seige it until about size 2, then use the horsemen to attack-retreat-attack-retreat-attack-retreat-attack-retreat-attack-retreat-attack-retreat until it falls.

while your doing this build another horsey army till its real big and find another civ, then continue to fight till both civs fall or exist only in a few colonys, this way you can harrass them till they just get exausted and die. The only reason this wouldn't have been as good a idea in civ2 is the retreat button, which I think will be REALLY benificial in taking cities

[Inverse Icarus]

i dont think "retreat" is a button. i think it just happens sometimes if the unit is losing.

confirmation either way would be nice.

[MxM]

How about building your most culturally advanced city at the age of your empire? Of cause you need to protect it well by units (produced in other cities), but then, it will convert more cities of your opponents, because it is closer to them!

[Gralak]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
-The Wombat Maneuver (coined by Immortal Wombat in CTP)
(1) Get a a really good city. Could be anywhere, but preferably in the center of your civ.
(2) Empty the city of units
(3) Sell it to another civ (which you hate) for mucho money. If the civ is more technologically advanced, the better.

...and when your armies are closing enemy city (slow, because in enemy territory), enemy builds a cheap unit and KABOOM! destroys the city.