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A couple of comments on my recently purchased PTW, which I am still trying to figure out.
1. I have ticked the mass regicide box, which means I start out with 7 kings. It seems however, that despite the "little" manual that tells me I must capture all a civilisation's Kings in order to destroy it under the rules of mass regicide, as soon as I capture an AI city with a king in it, the whole civilisation is destroyed! This takes the fun out of the game, especially when you have planned a co-ordinated assault aimed at the exposed or perceived weak points of an empire, only to leave your attacking soldiers primed and ready to go with no civilisation left to attack, and a whole lot of unclaimed space that only settlers can fill!
2. The 2 games I have played to completion have both ended in domination. Firstly I lost, the next Iwon. The strange thing is, civlopaedia tells me that 70% of the earth's surface or population must be held in order to achieve a domination victory. In the first case, I was starting to assert myself inthe middle ages when the AI suddenly announced I had suffered an embarrassing defeat - there was no way anyone dominated the game. My victory was even more bizarre - I was clearly ahead (having started raping and pillaging the known world with my Sihapi before anyone had replaceable parts!), however the F11 screen told my I was 2nd in size and 3rd in population, and there were still about 14 civs in the game.....so how could I get a domination victory? Very frustrating....although I guess it takes the boring cleaning up out of the game when you know there's no way the AI can beat you.
3. I guess I don't really understand the King thing yet. I mean, don't you just keep your 7 kings in a central, very well defended city (after using them early on to explore when the risk of being attacked is low)? I've seen the AI send his Kings out all over the world when we're at war, and spread them thin over a number of cities? Isn't that dumb, or am I missing some vital strategy point here?
Would appreciate some comments so I can understand this game a bit more....these new options don't seem to make sense to me at the moment. Perhaps I'm jut a little slow!
Cheers
1. I have ticked the mass regicide box, which means I start out with 7 kings. It seems however, that despite the "little" manual that tells me I must capture all a civilisation's Kings in order to destroy it under the rules of mass regicide, as soon as I capture an AI city with a king in it, the whole civilisation is destroyed! This takes the fun out of the game, especially when you have planned a co-ordinated assault aimed at the exposed or perceived weak points of an empire, only to leave your attacking soldiers primed and ready to go with no civilisation left to attack, and a whole lot of unclaimed space that only settlers can fill!
2. The 2 games I have played to completion have both ended in domination. Firstly I lost, the next Iwon. The strange thing is, civlopaedia tells me that 70% of the earth's surface or population must be held in order to achieve a domination victory. In the first case, I was starting to assert myself inthe middle ages when the AI suddenly announced I had suffered an embarrassing defeat - there was no way anyone dominated the game. My victory was even more bizarre - I was clearly ahead (having started raping and pillaging the known world with my Sihapi before anyone had replaceable parts!), however the F11 screen told my I was 2nd in size and 3rd in population, and there were still about 14 civs in the game.....so how could I get a domination victory? Very frustrating....although I guess it takes the boring cleaning up out of the game when you know there's no way the AI can beat you.
3. I guess I don't really understand the King thing yet. I mean, don't you just keep your 7 kings in a central, very well defended city (after using them early on to explore when the risk of being attacked is low)? I've seen the AI send his Kings out all over the world when we're at war, and spread them thin over a number of cities? Isn't that dumb, or am I missing some vital strategy point here?
Would appreciate some comments so I can understand this game a bit more....these new options don't seem to make sense to me at the moment. Perhaps I'm jut a little slow!
Cheers
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