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Games like this are why I like Civ III
My latest game I am the Iroquois, regent level, continents-middle setting, temperate, and 4 billion YO.
I started on a large upside-down U shaped continent. I have the eastern leg. The Romans have the western leg and the Aztecs have the north. I sent my first scout and warrior north and ran into the Aztecs when they still had only two cities. I traded technologies and declared war.
I destroyed one of their cities and sued for peace, since I did not have the necessary manpower in the area. This made them furious, of course. Around 500 BC, the Aztecs and the Romans formed an alliance against me.
I successfully fended them off and they sued for peace.
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My only wonder is the Hanging Gardens. My neighbors have communications with the rest of the world, which I am slowly discovering.
Since I am trying to fend off two civs, clear a massive jungle, (rubber later!) and maintain a decent infrastructure, I am half an age behind in technology. My only strategic resource is iron only just recently connected. I have access to horses on an island, but a sea is between us, so I won't be seeing my unique units or knights until Astronomy. I keep telling my scientists I want telescopes, but they keep bringing me hollowed out sticks with leaves over the ends.
It is currently around 900 AD and I am running a monarchy. I have just discovered Feudalism and we are sluggishly researching Chivalry. No one will trade with me for anything less than a ransom of my entire treasury and most of my GP per turn.
Now this is why I like the game: Even though the enemy has superior troops: knights vs. my catapults and spearmen, slowly upgrading to pikemen and swordsmen, I have successfully held the barbarian civs at bay. I lost one of my cities, but I was able to recapture it. Now my superior culture, due to my many temples, is starting to culture-flip their stray cities. I thought when the two civs ganged up on me that the game was over, but if things keep going the way they are, it will be a long uphill battle, but eventually I will drive the Aztecs into the ocean. They never fully recovered from that original war. I am resource poor, but if I can survive until Industrialism, the continent will be my mine and then the world!
Cue the national anthem.
I started on a large upside-down U shaped continent. I have the eastern leg. The Romans have the western leg and the Aztecs have the north. I sent my first scout and warrior north and ran into the Aztecs when they still had only two cities. I traded technologies and declared war.
I destroyed one of their cities and sued for peace, since I did not have the necessary manpower in the area. This made them furious, of course. Around 500 BC, the Aztecs and the Romans formed an alliance against me. I successfully fended them off and they sued for peace.:My only wonder is the Hanging Gardens. My neighbors have communications with the rest of the world, which I am slowly discovering.
Since I am trying to fend off two civs, clear a massive jungle, (rubber later!) and maintain a decent infrastructure, I am half an age behind in technology. My only strategic resource is iron only just recently connected. I have access to horses on an island, but a sea is between us, so I won't be seeing my unique units or knights until Astronomy. I keep telling my scientists I want telescopes, but they keep bringing me hollowed out sticks with leaves over the ends.It is currently around 900 AD and I am running a monarchy. I have just discovered Feudalism and we are sluggishly researching Chivalry. No one will trade with me for anything less than a ransom of my entire treasury and most of my GP per turn.
Now this is why I like the game: Even though the enemy has superior troops: knights vs. my catapults and spearmen, slowly upgrading to pikemen and swordsmen, I have successfully held the barbarian civs at bay. I lost one of my cities, but I was able to recapture it. Now my superior culture, due to my many temples, is starting to culture-flip their stray cities. I thought when the two civs ganged up on me that the game was over, but if things keep going the way they are, it will be a long uphill battle, but eventually I will drive the Aztecs into the ocean. They never fully recovered from that original war. I am resource poor, but if I can survive until Industrialism, the continent will be my mine and then the world!
Cue the national anthem.
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