The last turns of Civ2 scens

[yaroslav]

I have a problem when playing many excellents scen of Civ2, like Bebro's "Imperium Romanum", Paul Cullivan's "Bronze Age", Jesus' Balsnide "Age of Thunder" and more: I can't finish them!

Why? Well, when the scens are near end, the game gets boring: only move and move units from one extreme of the map to another in order to take the last few cities...

How you bypass the borings last turns?

[Shaka Naldur]

usually, I never finish the scenarios,

[Dr. Nick]

Me neither.

[Marquis de Sodaq]

Either stop playing once victory is clear or begin it as a challenge to win as quickly as possible.

Sometimes having a comparison game adds motivation - Try to beat another player at a scenario.

[Chris 62]

I have seen this also, mainly with WWII scenarios, or others that have an extremly large amount of troops.

There really isn't much that can be done, which is why I have now come to favor railroads, as they make war faster and more decisive (I used to agree that it was unrealistic, but so is a whole stack being destroyed when one unit is defeated outside a fortress).

I have found I enjoy scenarios that require far less troops far more, and I often place troop limitations on my own builds to avoid having to move 100+ units perturn.
Sometimes this makes things longer, but usually it is more fun.

I just don't enjoy hour long turns, where the loss of 30 units doesn't kill you, I much prefer small armies and decision making, and I have finished a large number of scenarios (in fact, every scenario I ever reviewed I played at least three times).

[Stefan Härtel]

I usually fortify all those units I don't need, or disband them entirely.
Actually, recruiting a new army for a new campaign and disbanding the old one after the campaign's done is a good way.
It adds a bit of a challenge to the game as well.

[Heresson]

Yeah, it gets boring in the end. Well, it wasn't boring in Spanish pride for example because I conquered entire map
earlier in a serie of blietzkriegs and was just waiting with
a howitzer and a couple of bombers by the last Moorish city.
But Mongols by Harlan for example, or Red Front, it was
a nightmare when it comes to that.