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As most people do, I myself have many complaints about the game. All I can say is...I can't wait for the patch. This could end up being a really good game.
Anyway, I've played the game a few times from beginning to end and I have to say that all things aside, it is enjoyable. And although the AI is a bit one sided in it's dealings, what country in the real world isn't? At least in this version, they seem to hold up their end of a war agreement. I was playing as the Romans, when an Egyptian boat, loaded with a settler, showed up on my shore and proceeded to set up a city just outside of my borders in an artic area. Knowing that oil was bound to show up there later in the game, I couldn't allow this. I knew Egypt had far too many cities for me to take on alone, and they were sure to send a wave of attackers across the ocean to seek revenge, I had to distract them some way. The Greeks shared the continent with the Egyptians, so I paid them a few hundred dollars and a luxury to beat the Egyptians into submission. At the same time, I brought in a horde of legion to occupy their little invasion on my shores. After about a dozen turns, to my pleasure, the Greeks had taken 5 Egyptian cities and had kept them tied up long enough to break them...and I never saw another Egyptian land on my shore. Remember back in Civ2 when you'd pay a civ ungodly amount of cash to declare war, only to have them make peace with your enemy a few turns later? It's refreshing to see them keep up a deal like that. Especially when the Greeks seemed to be a smaller empire than the Egyptians they were attacking, and had lived in peace until my influence.
I am concerned about how 3 spearmen destroyed a tank of mine though.... -JD
Anyway, I've played the game a few times from beginning to end and I have to say that all things aside, it is enjoyable. And although the AI is a bit one sided in it's dealings, what country in the real world isn't? At least in this version, they seem to hold up their end of a war agreement. I was playing as the Romans, when an Egyptian boat, loaded with a settler, showed up on my shore and proceeded to set up a city just outside of my borders in an artic area. Knowing that oil was bound to show up there later in the game, I couldn't allow this. I knew Egypt had far too many cities for me to take on alone, and they were sure to send a wave of attackers across the ocean to seek revenge, I had to distract them some way. The Greeks shared the continent with the Egyptians, so I paid them a few hundred dollars and a luxury to beat the Egyptians into submission. At the same time, I brought in a horde of legion to occupy their little invasion on my shores. After about a dozen turns, to my pleasure, the Greeks had taken 5 Egyptian cities and had kept them tied up long enough to break them...and I never saw another Egyptian land on my shore. Remember back in Civ2 when you'd pay a civ ungodly amount of cash to declare war, only to have them make peace with your enemy a few turns later? It's refreshing to see them keep up a deal like that. Especially when the Greeks seemed to be a smaller empire than the Egyptians they were attacking, and had lived in peace until my influence.
I am concerned about how 3 spearmen destroyed a tank of mine though.... -JD
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