Do you play peacfull, or Warmonger?

[Dom Pedro II]

Arrian, I did get that line from the Eddie Izzard sketch on WWII... I felt it fit pretty well. Glad somebody knows the man's work, he's a funny funny man.


Anyway, it seems like a lot of people here have a similar sentiment as me, we don't like to goad the nice guys into war, but the jerks... well, they just have it coming.

[Thrawn05]

I play defensivly until I upgrade all my roads to railroad, and have tanks in my military. Then its all the way to the end.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

I play realpolitic.

At the beginning of the game, I'll just build warriors and settlers, and I'll go to my nearest neighbor and either destroy him or crippled him by taking lots of his cities/settlers/workers.

Then I'll play peaceful. Then I'll go to war again.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

[Thrawn05]

Hey Lawrence, that's funny. This one explains my usual civ3 game (I'm the guy on the left).

[romelus]

i fight all the time, except... around the time of industrialization. that's a critical period for world dominance, i prefer to get factories up asap so cities can outproduce my neighbours. usually by this time i'm sizable and wars are mine to start, so i've only had to fight once during industrialization out of all my games. i mostly play monarch.

[Zachriel]

Originally posted by Thrawn05
I play defensivly until I upgrade all my roads to railroad, and have tanks in my military. Then its all the way to the end.

I play as if I don't know anything about tanks, at least until they are imagined by H.G. Wells.

[Cookie Monster]

I'm a warmonger by heart but since I bought this game I have been trying to get along with everyone.

No matter what I do though, esp. after 1.17f, the AI
always wants to pick a fight with me. So now all my
games have degenerated into me vs. the world.







So now I'm currently playing Curt Siblings Dictator scenario
for Civ ToT. Check it out it's a fairly well done scenario set
during WWII.

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Haupt. Dietrich
So now all my games have degenerated into me vs. the world.

You lucky....

[Ironikinit]

Peaceful games go a lot quicker. Too much war and the game gets boring. Too little and it would get boring, too, I guess, but there always seems to be the opportunity to fight if I want. I avoid declaring war if I can.

Has anyone else noticed that the "insult until they're furious and tell them to get out of your territory" trick doesn't automatically provoke them into declaring war under 1.17?

[Zachriel]

Originally posted by Haupt. Dietrich
So now all my games have degenerated into me vs. the world.

Try to establish MPP's. This won't keep you out of war, may even get you into war, but at least you will have allies.

[dunk]

I like to play early aggressor / late builder. My Civ III strategy is similar yet different than Civ II.

Civ II...

1) Be the technology leader. Try not to fight until Dragoons are around.
2) Get to Fundamentalism as soon as possible.
3) Buy! Buy! Buy! Enemy cities.
4) Tear down those walls around the capitals and take with cavalry / armor.
5) Leave one city from a backwards civ. I don't want the game to end.
6) Switch to Democracy. It's a pain with a whole lot of cities.. I almost always forget to create enough entertainers in one and it causes a revolution.
7) Set the tax rate to pump out 1 tech per turn... I like getting future tech 203.
8) Build every possible thing, colonize every square of land, and launch the spaceship so it arrives on the last turn of the game.

Civ III...

1) Expand.
2) Build a big army.
3) Conquer your most annoying neighbor or two most annoying with knights / cavalry.
4) Switch to Democracy and get ahead in the tech race.
5) Maintain your borders.
6) Build everything you can and launch the spaceship.

That darn optimal city limit thing prevents my Civ II strategy in Civ III.

It's also more fun to keep other civs around in Civ III with the new commerce system.

[Da_cOmRaDe_MiKe]

i find it awkuward as i play earth map but always end up in america with 1 other civ and 14 back in europe and middle east! so ive got 1 civ to either kill or feed off till i got transports and a good army rdy...

[easy]

I think I'm in the end of extreme peaceful style.
My cities are always there without any defender units for thousands of years since I'm busy in building settlers, works and other city improvements.

[Allemand]

I like to expand fast on a huge map. By the end of the Ancient Era I'll have about 20 cities and be in Republic. Each city will have one defender, either a warrior or a spearman (most will have a spearman). I'll also have about 12 horsemen, mostly veterans because about 5-10 cities will have barracks. The AI will have declared war on me at least once because of my small army, but I'll get my allies to fight the war. When I get Chivalry I build up my force of knights to about 30-40 and attack my neighbor. Sometimes the neighbor attacks me before I'm ready. It can't get better than that.