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Post by JMDavis ((Silver)) on Jun 21, 2012 4:38:06 GMT -5
Started a new match on Chieftain (still want to take it slow being my second game).
Caesar's already jumping down my throat for settling some land.
Caesar invaded right after posting this. I had three companies of archers and one company of spearmen. Luckily, he assaulted right next to both my capital and my second city and was bombarded by both as well as my three companies of archers. He surrendered all of his gold and gave me gold per turn for a peace treaty.
I feel kind of proud considering my military advisor kept telling me Rome would crush us in a battle.
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Post by Sekot on Jun 21, 2012 6:25:04 GMT -5
How does one take screenshots? Same as print screen?
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Post by J.O.N ((Dragonwing)) on Jun 21, 2012 9:07:21 GMT -5
Yep.
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Post by JMDavis ((Silver)) on Jun 21, 2012 12:03:11 GMT -5
I just fought a long and bloody battle against Siam. Those war elephants were extremely infuriating, and Rhamkhanhaeng had six of them lurking in the fog which decimated my companies early on until I finally managed to land my cannons close enough to do some damage.
Took his first city and burnt it to the ground out of spite, then proceeded to trample and pillage my way through the rest of his lands (slightly kicking myself for the second bit, have to ship in workers to undo my damage), he offered me peace three times and each time I refused until Siam's empire was wiped off the map. Rather wish he didn't keep provoking me to do this, considering I didn't entirely mind sharing the continent with him. But he just kept sending his prophets in to convert my cities, couldn't let that stand.
Only five countries remain.
Gandhi's being pretty awesome and nice right now, he's wished me well in my wars and has been overall friendly, as has Wu Zetian. Nobunaga keeps coming to me to help him finish off America (sorely tempted to do so), as only Boston is left after my own war against Washington.
Then there's Catherine... who is going to get the same treatment as Siam if she keeps popping up just to insult me.
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Post by Kaez on Jun 21, 2012 13:19:12 GMT -5
My capital, Mecca. Pretty simple really, had a good start next to cotton and silk with some horses and wheat. It's not particularly industrious, which is a problem for my civ in general. Most of my gold goes straight in to buildings, so I rarely get over 1k in the treasury. Science is flourishing though, you can see my academy in the left hand corner. My first expansion was in to the fertile river valley to my east with Medina being my second city and probably most likely going to my most populous after Mecca. Damascus is my slowest growing city, but it's gold generation is legendary. It's also my highest culture generating city at the moment. Baghdad is more of a general all-around city, though like the others it lacks production. It's also still a bit of a border town and lacks many of the main facilities the bigger cites have. Khurasan is one of my newer cities, but it's position has helped it flourish. It was originally built after I razed the cities of Mongolia that were close to my lands. It's main purpose is to stop further expansion from them, but it may be turned towards culture to take advantage of its wine. This the Mongolian lands and my most eastern city, Kufah. I founded the port city to deny the Mongolians any expansion there and as a second port city to aid naval dominance on the continent. I like to roleplay that it's where my trade with the Romans (who are further east) flourishes. It's again one of my newer cities but I'm putting some money in to getting it up to speed. The Wall! This is my most westerly expansion, I'm roleplaying that Turkish and I signed a treaty that neither of us will expand past this point after I took the port city of Diyarbakir. Basra is going to become the bases for my military on this front while Najran is my Glorious Jewel upon the Sea. The northern Turkish lands are fertile and green but ideal for my Camel Archers to raid as the Turks found out in our war. It's their most recent expansion since they were content to stay south so far. Istanbul has probably the most spectacular bit of map geography going for it, so I'm glad they got the Colossus to stand there. That's the southern seas and the other peninsula of the continent, opposite of the Turkish one. My eastern neighbours are Rome and Germany, trade is flourishing between us. I really enjoyed this. It's fun to see how people's civs develop and how their worlds unfold. Yeah, I'm starting over tonight. I wanna post screenshots I've what I've done so far, but with the game set on easy mode it doesn't feel like they count. Besides... lessons learned and such. Should be better second time around. As soon as the expansion finishes installing. Even though people tend to have this natural disinclination toward difficulty levels and locations and such in Civ that make their Civs less likely to expand and conquer the world -- expanding and being awesome isn't what Civ is about. Bad shit happening and struggling and being fucked over can be just as fun. Usually more. How does one take screenshots? Same as print screen? F12. For me, Print Screen doesn't work. Steam screenshots are F12. I just fought a long and bloody battle against Siam. Those war elephants were extremely infuriating, and Rhamkhanhaeng had six of them lurking in the fog which decimated my companies early on until I finally managed to land my cannons close enough to do some damage. Took his first city and burnt it to the ground out of spite, then proceeded to trample and pillage my way through the rest of his lands (slightly kicking myself for the second bit, have to ship in workers to undo my damage), he offered me peace three times and each time I refused until Siam's empire was wiped off the map. Rather wish he didn't keep provoking me to do this, considering I didn't entirely mind sharing the continent with him. But he just kept sending his prophets in to convert my cities, couldn't let that stand. Only five countries remain. Gandhi's being pretty awesome and nice right now, he's wished me well in my wars and has been overall friendly, as has Wu Zetian. Nobunaga keeps coming to me to help him finish off America (sorely tempted to do so), as only Boston is left after my own war against Washington. Then there's Catherine... who is going to get the same treatment as Siam if she keeps popping up just to insult me. Screenshots, bro.
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Post by JMDavis ((Silver)) on Jun 21, 2012 13:32:34 GMT -5
I just fought a long and bloody battle against Siam. Those war elephants were extremely infuriating, and Rhamkhanhaeng had six of them lurking in the fog which decimated my companies early on until I finally managed to land my cannons close enough to do some damage. Took his first city and burnt it to the ground out of spite, then proceeded to trample and pillage my way through the rest of his lands (slightly kicking myself for the second bit, have to ship in workers to undo my damage), he offered me peace three times and each time I refused until Siam's empire was wiped off the map. Rather wish he didn't keep provoking me to do this, considering I didn't entirely mind sharing the continent with him. But he just kept sending his prophets in to convert my cities, couldn't let that stand. Only five countries remain. Gandhi's being pretty awesome and nice right now, he's wished me well in my wars and has been overall friendly, as has Wu Zetian. Nobunaga keeps coming to me to help him finish off America (sorely tempted to do so), as only Boston is left after my own war against Washington. Then there's Catherine... who is going to get the same treatment as Siam if she keeps popping up just to insult me. Screenshots, bro. Will do when/if I march on Russia.
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Post by Kwan on Jun 21, 2012 15:07:42 GMT -5
Siamese war elephants are a -bitch-. The only real solution is lots and lots of pikes, which is easy enough if you're playing as Germany but harder to manage for others (since pikes are kind of crap against everything else - only Spain and Germany can really use them as default infantry).
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Post by JMDavis ((Silver)) on Jun 21, 2012 15:25:51 GMT -5
So, I was rebuilding Siam and adding in more roads to make it easier for my workers to move around and whatnot, as well as converting those cities on the river to Shintoism (started with a belief in Sacred Water, was going to leave the desert cities Buddhism). When who else but Catherine shows up. I'd hoped she'd have laid off after I completely wiped out Siam, but it seems she wants to continue harassing me. So I decided to respond: She guessed my intent. Took two cities with no losses and have a third surrounded. And now she tries to play nice. My response: Going to finish her off on this side of the continent, then head across the waters to take her last two cities. Going to actually employ my navy to try and soften up her coastal towns. The last city of the Russian Empire. Going to keep pressuring it with my frigate while I move my privateer to safer waters. ---- Fucking Gandhi keeps converting my cities! GAH! I DON'T WANT HINDUISM! Now back to the war. ---- And the Songhai-Russian war is over.
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Post by ASGetty ((Zovo)) on Jun 21, 2012 16:06:33 GMT -5
Even though people tend to have this natural disinclination toward difficulty levels and locations and such in Civ that make their Civs less likely to expand and conquer the world -- expanding and being awesome isn't what Civ is about. Bad shit happening and struggling and being fucked over can be just as fun. Usually more. My second time around, I chose a more culturally focused approach, less expansion, be friendly with the neighbors and all that. The small city state of Antwerp to my south is in awe of me; which is good, because my borders bisect the continent and they're the only group south of me. My closest neighbors (the Maya) and I are BFFs and regular trade partners, even though they appear to be struggling. Every thing was good til the Inca's came to town with just tons of soldiers. They attacked my northern most city of Samoa and were repelled. So they backed off and then demanded everything I own as compensation for their losses. I told them to shove it and we've been at war ever since. The pattern is the same and has repeated itself three times now; attack enmass, get stomped, demand compensation. I wasn't having too much issue with that until on their most recent trek southward they opted to conquer a Mayan city on the way. As stated before, the Mayans are my homies, so I couldn't stand for that. Who did these fuckers think they are? So I marched on Cusco and discovered why it is these Incan's have the gall to go around bullying folks. Their two primary cities are just rolling in resources (both luxury and tactical) and heavily entrenched along a thin strip of tiles between a mountain range and seashore completely surrounded by hills and jungle. After retrieving the Mayan city (which I'll probably gift back to them down the line) I moved my troops into Incan territory and have had the remaineder of their empire under seige for roughly 400 years now. One seriously tough nut to crack.
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Post by Kwan on Jun 21, 2012 16:12:19 GMT -5
The way the engine sets up starting locations - being biased towards putting all civs in a position to help them succeed - means that dumb stuff like that can happen sometimes. I was in a game where the continent the Iroquois were on was literally nothing but a rolling carpet of forests.
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Post by JMDavis ((Silver)) on Jun 21, 2012 16:14:02 GMT -5
Is there any way to keep Great Prophets/Missionaries out of my borders aside from, like, going to direct war with the other empire and wiping them out? I'd really rather not destroy Gandhi and India over this minor annoyance.
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Post by Kaez on Jun 21, 2012 17:48:40 GMT -5
The way the engine sets up starting locations - being biased towards putting all civs in a position to help them succeed - means that dumb stuff like that can happen sometimes. I was in a game where the continent the Iroquois were on was literally nothing but a rolling carpet of forests. Which is why Earth is nice. Sure England gets put on the coast and such, but there's only so much possible bias when dealing with an objective map. Is there any way to keep Great Prophets/Missionaries out of my borders aside from, like, going to direct war with the other empire and wiping them out? I'd really rather not destroy Gandhi and India over this minor annoyance. Inquisitors do that, no?
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Post by JMDavis ((Silver)) on Jun 21, 2012 18:36:04 GMT -5
The way the engine sets up starting locations - being biased towards putting all civs in a position to help them succeed - means that dumb stuff like that can happen sometimes. I was in a game where the continent the Iroquois were on was literally nothing but a rolling carpet of forests. Which is why Earth is nice. Sure England gets put on the coast and such, but there's only so much possible bias when dealing with an objective map. Is there any way to keep Great Prophets/Missionaries out of my borders aside from, like, going to direct war with the other empire and wiping them out? I'd really rather not destroy Gandhi and India over this minor annoyance. Inquisitors do that, no? They remove the religion from the city. But the prophet can still come in and proselytise and force me to make another Inquisitor to cut it out again... Bah. Also, Gandhi forced me to start a new game... fucking. Gandhi.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2012 18:51:41 GMT -5
Looks like you need a Witchfinder-General.
Oh, and yeah, I loved the screencaps. Thanks for the effort.
EVERYONE ELSE, DO THAT.
I DEMAND TO BE ENTERTAINED, PLEBS!
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Post by JMDavis ((Silver)) on Jun 21, 2012 18:53:16 GMT -5
Looks like you need a Witchfinder-General. Oh, and yeah, I loved the screencaps. Thanks for the effort. EVERYONE ELSE, DO THAT. I DEMAND TO BE ENTERTAINED, PLEBS! Beginning the Ordo Hereticus. All shall bow before the will of the God-Emperor.
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