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the game is 10x more enjoyable, in my opinion, if you role play it a little instead of playing it as a purely statistical combat model.
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It's best when you can have both....Last edited by Pyrodrew; October 27, 2002, 10:57. -
Different games have different rhythms... there are periods of high intensity, and for various reasons there can be lulls.
I roleplay some, but I more use the lulls to think about and prep for overall game strategy. For instance, with certain exceptions, there often comes a point where continued attacks with Cavs against Infantry becomes too painful. The race then becomes to get Factories built in all of my key cities, ready to vomit forth Tanks as soon as I have Mot Trans. Not much going on, but a form of excitement nonetheless.The greatest delight for man is to inflict defeat on his enemies, to drive them before him, to see those dear to them with their faces bathed in tears, to bestride their horses, to crush in his arms their daughters and wives.
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I always find the game to get boring around the industrial age. I'm not sure why."I used to be a Scotialist, and spent a brief period as a Royalist, but now I'm PC"
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it seems to get boring around mid industrial age... the game starts to turn into just watching a dozens of tanks and bombers break through infantry stacks.... over and over again....
to make the game more interesting and tactical i like to try to wage wars without using certain units... like tanks. it is much mre challenging to win a war with marines, artillery, paras and transports... it becomes more about strategy that:
select tank-click city-select next tank- click city.... over and over again....Comment
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Originally posted by werdhertz
What the? lol
Actually, i fidn the Ancient era and Middle ages the best out of the entire game. There seems to be always something going on, and your usually discovering new Civs and theres a form of diplomacy unlike the later ages where it seems to develop into one big constant war with every civ annoyed at you.
for some reason, all of my maps have all the land masses joined with some sea, so one civ always manages to discover the other groups of civs and trades the contacts till it and everybody else knows everybody else!
hehe, i actualy ended up buying one, then selling it to every other civ till i have loads of money and all the contacts.Help negate the vegiterian movement!
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the lull is what always has killed it for me. I just recently started playing emperor all the time to make it more challenging. I don't get so board or mired down in micromanagement issues if I feel I am not on parity with my neighbors... in that situation there is always a war to fight.
Once I start to feel I am out in front or the game is basically won is when I usually end up restarting. I think PTW is gonna prove much more effective at making me keep my guard up and, thus, keeping me interested
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In this time you take decisions that will lead you to a winning game or a lossing one.
You have to manage your expansion,and to do this you,soon or late , will have to fight in order to put on the right place your enemies and to conquer them also.
You also will deploy diplomatic bases.
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Ancient and Medieval are the best parts of the game. I love the exploration and finding new civs. Usually I make a b-line for the Lighthouse, contact everyone and hold out on selling contacts til the last possible moment, at which point I make a killing on selling contacts and my world map.
It definately slows down in industrial so I like to manufacture a crisis. I'm a builder, so I spend all my time improving my cities and completely neglecting my armies. I can usually stay out of wars in the early game by giving civs what they want but later on there is almost always a sneak attack and I'll spend 10 to 20 turns desperately trying to defend while I quickly build my army.
Last game I was in, the G*D D**N F*****G Aztecs attacked me after 5000 years of peace and friendship took 3 cities in 2 turns with a horde of... of... Jaguar Warriors. I'm so embarrassed. The next few turns were spent clinging on to a major city, with 8 turns to go on the Hoover Dam, from an army of knights with one pikemen.
Spent the next 100 years wiping them off the face of the planet and of course they had MPPs with 3 other civs on another continent who picked away at my improvements with their naval bombardments for about 50 years before I could create a substantial navy to protect my coasts. All in all good fun.
Afterwards it slowed down into the modern age and I restarted.Comment
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The only lull I really experience is the post-infantry, pre-tanks era. By then I've typically done most of my damage, acquiring a large empire and colonial possessions (luxury depots).
The ancient age is a blast, as is the medieval period (lots of wonders... knights... cavalry... sea and ocean-going ships). The early industrial age is fun, because of the explosion in production (rr/factories/hospitals/police stations) and the 2 extremely key wonders (ToE, Hoover). The Modern Age... I rarely spend much time in the modern age.
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