Strategy Notes From Vel - The Early Game....

[realpolitic]

Re: Strategy Notes From Vel - The Early Game....

The fastest growth in cities comes from granaries usually by using 20 shields + 1 pop. After that you might want to minimize shield loss in production. If your city produces 1 - 5 or 10 shields/ turn, you might want to produce workers, scouts, or warriors (use the excess to scout if you aren't playing an expansionist Civ). With 3 or 4 shields a turn you will waste 2 shields but you'll get a unit out fast. With 6, 8 or 9 shields a turn, waste is minimized by producing settlers, and with 7, if you are militaritistic Civ, build barracks, then spearmen. Maximizing productivity is quite helpful for the Vassal strategy.

[punkbass2000]

Where is Vel, anyway? I haven't seen him around here since the time when I was just a lurker.

[Dorpy]

about the modern war:
offense is most definately the ket to defence. forget caputring cities. rather, track down offensive units like cavalry, tanks ect. with your own and kill them. dont worry about any other units they might have. i have found that the AI goes through a period of thoughness, that once you survive, you are safe. for me, a war starts out with a small invasion of a few units,increasing to a full slam of all units not engaged in another war. i found that if you have modern defenders, say 2-3 fortified at the point of attack, you will be ok, as long as the enemy offensive units are busy. by attacking and destroying these units, you throw the AI into confusion. they will not attack a defended city with defensive units such as riflemen or infantry alone: they'll only attack when offensive units are nearby. simply keep them away. once they are destroyed you can attack the other units invading or slam their cities until you can get peace. either way, the war is over. once you have peace, be sure to build offensive units incase the war restarts. i usually give em 2 chances-the 3rd war-they die
when i do this, i uaually have an extremely weaker army:10-20 offensive units and 1-2 defenders in ever city. go everywhere to find those offensive units. kill them all and leave everything else. you may be able to use the civ later on. but after the 3rd war.. its over.

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[vmxa1]

Last I heard Vel was working on his game.

[Worthingtons]

Where do i find him?

[vmxa1]

Try Candle'Bre forum.

[Velociryx]

Talk about a blast from the past...good to see this old thread still getting some views....76k?! Yowza! Hadn't expected that!

As for me....still here in spirit, but spending more and more of my free time neck deep in designing my own computer game (with fingers crossed that you'll all become hopeless Candle'Bre addicts when it's done! )

-=Vel=-

[punkbass2000]

Originally posted by Velociryx
(with fingers crossed that you'll all become hopeless Candle'Bre addicts when it's done! )

Is there a doubt?

[Worthingtons]

Aye! put me down for the first copy!

[Theseus]

I'm already a "reading / catching up" addict.

Holy creativity, Batman!