Almost time to go home and crank up the Civ III !
Posted:
Thu Dec 17, 2009 12:50 am
by simonov
Ottoman fuckers attacked me out of the blue last night, and just as I was in the middle of kicking their asses the goddamned Hittites attacked me too! WTF? Fucking Hittites!
The Hittites have a mutual protection pact with the Sumerians, the second largest power in the world, after me (we are the mighty Aztecs). Shit. So first thing I did was negotiate a mutual protection pact of my own with the Sumerians, and now I just have to sit back and let those fucking Hittites step to me one more time. That will bring the Sumerians into the fray on my side.
This is shaping up into what will certainly be the first World War in history (the Mayans are already fighting with the Ottomans due to an alliance I had with them earlier). I only hope I can maneuver the sniveling Iroquois into the war on the opposing side, since there's a lot of Iroquois territory I've long wanted to gobble up!
Posted:
Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:21 am
by DBaker
I'm on to Civ 4 myself...
I generally like to start in the Americas, eradicate all of my neighbors while being friendly to everyone else, and build a nice strong navy...
By the time I develop aircraft, I've turned all of the midwest and the amazon basin into farmland, and my population is approaching 1 billion quite rapidly. It's at this point I usually attack whomever is not particularly popular at the moment, winning the approval of most everyone else. I continue this process until my (well fortified) homeland can pump out enough resources for an economic victory.
Posted:
Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:49 pm
by Charles
Last game like that I played was a Roman thing. Used to like it too.
Posted:
Fri Dec 18, 2009 3:13 pm
by simonov
It got surreal last night.
Soon I had eliminated the Ottomans completely from the game, and could start thinking about gobbling up chunks of Iroquois territory, when suddenly my erstwhile ally, the Inca, declared war on me, for no conceivable reason. Again, this set them against the Sumerians as well, and since they had an alliance with the Mayans, the latter were soon also at war with me and the Sumerians. So it was Aztecs and Sumerians against the world.
Then, for whatever reason, the Iroquois declared war on everyone they hadn't already declared war on.
This bizarre turn of events was mostly a distraction for us Aztecs. There was little I could do to take advantage of the Incas' truculence, but I had an opportunity to rapidly take no less than four Mayan cities adjacent to the former Ottoman lands, controlling their dye production into the bargain (we Aztecs were the only combatants in the world with armies of armor, which were unbeatable). I concluded a peace deal with the Hittites as soon as my alliance with the Sumerians allowed me to, and focused on doing what I could against the Iroquois, my most ancient rival.
Problem was, I didn't have enough war matériel in the Aztec Motherland to effectively prosecute a war against the Iroquois, as most of my armed forces were far away in the former Ottoman territory. There was no question of the Iroquois doing anything but raiding our borders from time to time, we had very good defenses, but my single attempt to invade Iroquois with every offensive unit I had available ended in disaster. As a democracy, we had been at war for too long to produce the necessary units quickly enough (by now, most of the other combatants in this, the first World War were fascist states). After the Iroquois debacle, all I wanted to do was extricate the Aztecs from this increasingly futile and dangerous war.
I easily brokered a peace with the Mayans (after you take a few of their cities, rival peace negotiators tend to be eager to make a deal), though it cost me some technology trading to get the Iroquois to stand down. The Incas, on whom I had never laid a hand, refused for some time even to parley, but soon after our Iroquois disaster they came to the table and agreed to a very equitable peace.
So with the rest of the world still raging against each other, we Aztecs are the sole power at peace. The World War allowed us to nearly double our territory, and provided access to many luxuries and strategic resources. While the World War continues (with so many fascist governments involved, it may last a very long time), we will be able to transition to a productive peacetime economy, and surge ahead of the rest in technology and scientific investment.
Given that the Aztecs were recently at war with everyone else besides the Sumerians, a diplomatic victory, my preferred form of dénouement, is out of the question. I will just have to beaver away on space technology and win the space race while everyone else is duking it out.
Posted:
Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:40 pm
by gordonye
Sounds like a very cool game. Your post made me dig up some info on it. Love strategy games like Risk but haven't played any for a while.