Vel's Strategy Thread - Part Three

[Nym]

Great work ! Must be read.

Congratulations Vel !!!!

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Nym
Great work ! Must be read.

Congratulations Vel !!!!

That's a nice gratuitous bump there Nym.

::applause:: from FP.

three months after the last post .... impressive.

seriously though, more people should read this thread, it would solve a lot of problems for n00bs like me, and a little bump never hurt anybody.

[~Vodka~]

Wow! Great, simpley awsome guys! Hats off to you all!

Keep up the good work!

[Nym]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
three months after the last post .... impressive.

Yes, as you noticed I'm quite new at Apolyton

[TommyGunn]

New

Well, I have been reading Vel's thread (when a coworker turned me onto Part two) for a couple of weeks. The first thing, I was trying alot of the tactics describe therein. BUT didn't realize until later that it was post patch (1.06).
I have 1.29 and I must say that some of the tactics work extremely well. My current game I am playing Marla's map (still can't get the correct starting position. Invalid save file) Warlord, but I am in Norway as Americans. I sent out 3 warriors, before I built my first settler, but after that I had built me a little barrier and picked on Japan (which is STILL furious even after given him 5 techs and alot of money.)
I finally got a MPP with Russia which had a MPP with France and drop a lonely swordsman into Egypt's and sure enough they killed it (darn ) which brought in Russia and the French.

The one thing that bugs me was NEARLY EVERYONE has tanks, but me. So I send a settler with a rifleman to South America and set them right in the middle of 2 rubbers. Bam, rush build an airport and now am building a worker to get them. Once I have the rubber, Modern Armor and watch out, cause I can slam out ICBM's every 5 to 6 turns. While mass building Modern.

[DeepO]

Boy.. the nostalgia... this thread was what made me stop lurking, and post my first post on 'poly. I just reread it, am I glad I understand the game better now It's a bit embarrasing even, some of the things I was so sure about are simply not true. What is interesting is that even in my first post here, I tried to understand culture flipping, even if I missed the point completely

After rereading many of the posts here, I can only say one thing: Vel and the others, I'm still impressed in how quickly you have put together the beginning of this strategy guide, it took me many more months to get to the same level of understanding.

DeepO

[vmxa1]

Now if Vel could get an updated one for PTW.

[TommyGunn]

I can't wait for all the updates once everyone gets 1.29 patch. I did notice that the AI is ALOT harder to deal with. It took me along time to get Russia to get to polite and after ever how many years after attacking Japan (early war) they are still furious.

[vmxa1]

Someone other than Mac users not have 129F by now?

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by vmxa1
Someone other than Mac users not have 129F by now?

They should have. Unless they don't like the changes it made for some reason.

The recent threads in this forum (based on 1.29f) have been every bit as good as this one IMHO.

[DeepO]

Yeah, certainly the topped thread of Theseus, in which a collection of links is given goes a lot farther. (TommyGunn, look for that one for updated info)
But still, for this early thread to be so complete already... it still amazes me.

DeepO

[vmxa1]

I would just like to see Vel put it all together, so it is in one place and coherent. By that I mean not repleat with everyone elses interjections. Then it is easy to read and follow.

[DeepO]

Well.. to defend my friend a little: he has a very busy life, and I don't think Civ III is high on his agenda. After all, he has his own game to produce

DeepO

[TommyGunn]

Wishes he knew more about programming. BTW, I would like to know if anybody else has a wife that hates civ iii and thinks it's ruining their marriage. :LOL:

[FrustratedPoet]

So Tommy, your wife is ruining your marriage to Civ3 is she?