I've started a new game on a large or huge map (I have forgotten which :P), continents, with 16 civs, on Warlord level, with player1's mod (which you can find on civ3.com).
So far, it's going great, although I wish the arrows between techs were the premade ones, not the ones the game has now drawn... The techs weren't really changed, were they? *Wonders why the premade arrows weren't used*
First thing of note is that I started in tundra, and I spent around 20 or so turns in the beginning of the game walking south until I found a decent grassland-coast-hill site, and built my capital there. It's around 900 AD now, and the histograph shows me in 3rd place score-wise (Japan 417, France 377, England (me) 363, Germany 362 (I just passed them, I was 4th a few turns ago)), and the demographics (f11) show me as being #1 in Population, Mfg Goods, Disease, Pollution, and Family Size. Ironically, my Family Size is 1 children.
It's Surprising my disease is 0%, but as for Pollution, everyone's in 1st place, I'm sure, as it's still the Early Middle Ages.
So, my first point is that my "wasting" 20 or so turns in the beginning of the game didn't affect my development adversely.
Anyhow, in the beginning I expanded as far as I thought reasonable (to around 8 or so cities, and I mostly ignored the huge amount of tundra to my north, except for colonizing near some luxury resources).
I noticed that by asking a civ to remove their units from my territory two turns in a row, they will remove them and will not return until a ROP or war is declared. In addition, the computer units teleport out, unlike human units. Hrmm.
Around 150 AD I had iron resources, but no horses. I built a number of swordsmen, and then declared war on the Russians, to my southwest. Within a few turns, they arranged a military alliance with the French and Germans against me. I quickly talked the Chinese into declaring war on the Russians and Germans, and the Indians into declaring war on somebody or other. The Japanese refused to get involved.
Long story short, I conquered all of Russia except one city (which they built on the other side of the continent :P), and arranged peace. I had peace with the Germans and French a few hundred years after the war started (Only the Germans tried attacking me, and I repelled them), and the Chinese got their empire reduced to 5 or so cities by the other powers.
But yes, so far so good. *signs offline....*
So far, it's going great, although I wish the arrows between techs were the premade ones, not the ones the game has now drawn... The techs weren't really changed, were they? *Wonders why the premade arrows weren't used*
First thing of note is that I started in tundra, and I spent around 20 or so turns in the beginning of the game walking south until I found a decent grassland-coast-hill site, and built my capital there. It's around 900 AD now, and the histograph shows me in 3rd place score-wise (Japan 417, France 377, England (me) 363, Germany 362 (I just passed them, I was 4th a few turns ago)), and the demographics (f11) show me as being #1 in Population, Mfg Goods, Disease, Pollution, and Family Size. Ironically, my Family Size is 1 children.
It's Surprising my disease is 0%, but as for Pollution, everyone's in 1st place, I'm sure, as it's still the Early Middle Ages.
So, my first point is that my "wasting" 20 or so turns in the beginning of the game didn't affect my development adversely.
Anyhow, in the beginning I expanded as far as I thought reasonable (to around 8 or so cities, and I mostly ignored the huge amount of tundra to my north, except for colonizing near some luxury resources).
I noticed that by asking a civ to remove their units from my territory two turns in a row, they will remove them and will not return until a ROP or war is declared. In addition, the computer units teleport out, unlike human units. Hrmm.
Around 150 AD I had iron resources, but no horses. I built a number of swordsmen, and then declared war on the Russians, to my southwest. Within a few turns, they arranged a military alliance with the French and Germans against me. I quickly talked the Chinese into declaring war on the Russians and Germans, and the Indians into declaring war on somebody or other. The Japanese refused to get involved.
Long story short, I conquered all of Russia except one city (which they built on the other side of the continent :P), and arranged peace. I had peace with the Germans and French a few hundred years after the war started (Only the Germans tried attacking me, and I repelled them), and the Chinese got their empire reduced to 5 or so cities by the other powers.
But yes, so far so good. *signs offline....*
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