The Bloody Germans

[MattHiggs]

They are the bane of my Civ 3 life. They are always so aggressive. They attack me when we have supposedly signed a peace agreement. Come on, leave me alone!

[jbavon]

In my games the Germans, Russians and Romans always seem to get themselves exterminated (and not by my hand either). I think their aggressiveness is their weakness.

[MattHiggs]

I love the Ruskies! I always trade with them, swap resources etc...

[Crom]

I know what you mean. Just when I thought we've reached an understanding and some sort of stalemate Otto turns up and razes my best city.

So, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em".

-Now playing as Germany, those tanks are quite handy.

[MattHiggs]

I have quite alot of troubles getting units afetr I get the techs. I can just never get the resources... any tips?

[Crom]

Hi Matt,

I'm the last person who should be dishing out any Civ advice. The only reason I can get hold of resources I need is because I'm still playing on Chieftain.

I keep trying Warlord (German or otherwise) and just get pasted every time. I really do suck.

I love this game, but I was a lot better at Civ II.

[Crom]

I have found that if I mine any metal resources they do seem to disappear much more often than if just leave them alone.

[raiseupx]

i havent had any problems with the germans yet. but usually i go war mode and wipe em out before they can touch me

[Grim Legacy]

As long as you are stronger than they are, they know how to behave.

They are my neighbours this time around and I must admit I had to execute a few corrective actions to get them to their proper size. =]

[MattHiggs]

Usually I am culturaly stronger and more scientifically advanced. But I never have a huge army, I think this is where I am going wrong.

[mr.buddylee]

Usually I am culturaly stronger and more scientifically advanced. But I never have a huge army, I think this is where I am going wrong.

Yeah, I think it is.

Its amazing to me how other countries treat me when I have a large army. My strategy for a large part of the game is to keep a very small army, work on city improvements, and buy allies when I need them. During this time, I really have to be careful when I'm dealing with other countries. I try to trade with my neighbors as much as possible to keep them on my good side.

Now, when I start getting tanks though and 6 or 7 of my cities can churn them out every 4 turns and I have 40 - 50 tanks rolling around, the AI is a little bit nicer.

They agree to things much more easily, and at a lower cost, and now all of them are at least polite and the ones I have MPP (I think thats what they're called) are gracious, even if they are close to me in culture or size.

So basically, they tend to leave me alone if I'm nice and small, and they tend to leave me alone if I'm big. Soooo.. Be nice and small or big and you should be ok. (Except for the Zulus. They are just huge pains. I hate the Zulu!)

[raiseupx]

i prefer to keep a good army the whole game, that way you can push around the weak civs for what you want you dont have to bother with being nice

[xane]

Germans are agressive and have the Panzer - bad news - that's why I like to play them

I think the Germans are Civ3's Mongols-with-nukes.

[G.A]

Though all other AIs seem to be aware of the Panzers coming for their butts in the future, and so, Germans never survived until they could build them in any of my games, totally without my assistance btw

[Special_Olympic]

Germans is the side I usually play.