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Hi all. I'm playing a regent game (standard, 60% continents, temperate/normal) as the Aztecs (random selection). My initial neighbors were the Iriquois and Americans. I've been trying to improve my warmongering (always a peacenik in Civ 2 'til I had overwhelming tech advantage, but that's not really war then), and am trying to incorporate rushes, oscillataing war, and vassal/client setups.
So I gave the Iriquois a JW beatdown 'til they cried uncle (blowing my GA in the process). Got a tech and some gold, pushing them back to marginal land, then turned my eyes to Abe. Now, I wanted the Iriquois lands cause it looked like a nice FP site (the continent is dumbell shaped with an eastern arm where the Americans lived), they had fur, which would give me 3 lux. if I took it, probably leaving them in the dead category (they didn't have much more to offer). I was "playing fair", by waiting 20 turns to redeclare war, so I gave Hiawatha some time, and kindly asked uncle Abe to teach me writing, or else. He refused, so I mass upgraded fifteen regular Jags to swordsmen, and came over for a visit. In the end, the oscillating war left both of my neighbors dead, after I'd squeezed everything out of them. In hindsight, I should have left America alive to be a punching bag, as their land had nothing I wanted (gems, which I already had), the border would have been easily defensible (a three tile chokepoint including a mountain and a hill), and I was maintaining my rep with gentlemanly war declarations. But I didn't. Then came the vikings. They built right on the ashes of the two farthest American towns that had been autorazed (hmm, maybe there's something good there after all). Did some trading, met the rest of the gang (Japan, Persia, France, and Spain). And then Spain plops down on the northern edge of my jungle. Fine. I can deal with that. But then the Vikings start getting a little testy. They want exorbitant amounts of money for tech, and their presence on MY continent was getting on my nerves. I waited for our gpt. deal to expire, and decided it was time to "renegotiate" peace. I took one of the towns they settled, and razed the other. They got Japan in an alliance against me. Then Persia. Then France, and now, Spain. Hmm. I've already been smacking the Vikings. I moved to an island off the coast, then along come Vikings and French. I kill their settlers, and they send more! Nobobody is willing to make peace unless I give them gold, tech, or both. I can understand this for Japan and Persia, who I haven't touched yet, but I've already razed one of the spanish towns on my northern coast. I want everything to settle down for a while so I can build up my empire (I built the GL by hand, built my FP in Salamanca with my other GL from the Viking battles). I have a palace prebuild that will probably be Sun Tzu's or Sistine (not sure which, probably Sistine as I already have barracks everywhere and they're cheap). Most of all, I fear the Japanese. We're all just into the middle ages, and I realized: Samurai. The Japanese are all alone (mostly) on a big island to my north. They're the second largest power after me. My military advisor says we have an average army compared to them, and I'm just cranking up horse production for a mass knight upgrade. How would people deal with this type of scenario?
So I gave the Iriquois a JW beatdown 'til they cried uncle (blowing my GA in the process). Got a tech and some gold, pushing them back to marginal land, then turned my eyes to Abe. Now, I wanted the Iriquois lands cause it looked like a nice FP site (the continent is dumbell shaped with an eastern arm where the Americans lived), they had fur, which would give me 3 lux. if I took it, probably leaving them in the dead category (they didn't have much more to offer). I was "playing fair", by waiting 20 turns to redeclare war, so I gave Hiawatha some time, and kindly asked uncle Abe to teach me writing, or else. He refused, so I mass upgraded fifteen regular Jags to swordsmen, and came over for a visit. In the end, the oscillating war left both of my neighbors dead, after I'd squeezed everything out of them. In hindsight, I should have left America alive to be a punching bag, as their land had nothing I wanted (gems, which I already had), the border would have been easily defensible (a three tile chokepoint including a mountain and a hill), and I was maintaining my rep with gentlemanly war declarations. But I didn't. Then came the vikings. They built right on the ashes of the two farthest American towns that had been autorazed (hmm, maybe there's something good there after all). Did some trading, met the rest of the gang (Japan, Persia, France, and Spain). And then Spain plops down on the northern edge of my jungle. Fine. I can deal with that. But then the Vikings start getting a little testy. They want exorbitant amounts of money for tech, and their presence on MY continent was getting on my nerves. I waited for our gpt. deal to expire, and decided it was time to "renegotiate" peace. I took one of the towns they settled, and razed the other. They got Japan in an alliance against me. Then Persia. Then France, and now, Spain. Hmm. I've already been smacking the Vikings. I moved to an island off the coast, then along come Vikings and French. I kill their settlers, and they send more! Nobobody is willing to make peace unless I give them gold, tech, or both. I can understand this for Japan and Persia, who I haven't touched yet, but I've already razed one of the spanish towns on my northern coast. I want everything to settle down for a while so I can build up my empire (I built the GL by hand, built my FP in Salamanca with my other GL from the Viking battles). I have a palace prebuild that will probably be Sun Tzu's or Sistine (not sure which, probably Sistine as I already have barracks everywhere and they're cheap). Most of all, I fear the Japanese. We're all just into the middle ages, and I realized: Samurai. The Japanese are all alone (mostly) on a big island to my north. They're the second largest power after me. My military advisor says we have an average army compared to them, and I'm just cranking up horse production for a mass knight upgrade. How would people deal with this type of scenario?
The AI isn't too great at landing units on my territory so it's a safe bet that you'll be fairly safe from overseas civs. I keep some fast attackers around for just such a thing as sweeping any AI landings away.
. I just couldn't do it.
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