Originally posted by HighLordDave:
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My question is this: How many folks get to Alpha Centauri or deep into the Modern Era before the game ends? I finished at the beginning of the Modern Era (and in fact still had the Advanced Flight and Amphibious Warfare technologies left in the Industrial age) and I was just wondering if this was standard or if people were actually finishing before this. It also kind of peeves me that I was only rated as "Tokugawa the Foolish" on the Civ-o-Meter at the end. Still, I'm loving the game and can't wait to try a different civ.</STRONG>
I played a game with the Zulus. I was using cavalry in the 1900's.
My enemies had pikemen and spearmen.
@Grunt- You're right about all those @55S whining about how bad the game is. I really hate those guys.
civfanatics has tons of topics started by those @55s who are whining about that there is no cheat mode.
IMO Civ3 is great. I have Civ2 and had played Civ1 numerous times at my friend's house when we were about 9. (Then that game was amazing, i couldn't imagine anything better

).
I really suck at the game at difficulties above warlord. Its tought!
Anyway i reccomend people pay a visit to civfanatics because you can download some very good earth maps from there. Look for the one by Marla Singer. Its size huge and is slow on my computer, though.
I played the Germans and using some steps provided by Marla i got all the civs in the right posistion. The game's going okay. I'm falling behind in score. Both the Egyptians and Americans are ahead of me. But thats also because i have a small empire.
I started in Europe with the Romans, Greeks, Russians, English and French and its very crowded. And when i sent my settlers eastwards i found that the Persian, babylonians and chinese had inhabited alot of that area.
Anyway i have good diplomatic relationships with everybody. I'm most technologically advanced in the world. I have sent 6 settlers to South America which is mostly uninhabited.
My grand scheme is too start creating panzers as soon as possible. Its already the 17th century and i've just entered the industrial age(which historically is pretty close). I'm going directly for motorized transportation(panzers). I plan to make tons of them and the my enemiesm who at best will have just pikemen, maybe musketmen will fall easily. At the time i have the
smallest army.
I'll probably cause my relations with the Japanese to crash and have my good friends, the chinese and french and indians go and attack them. They'll crush the Japanese. Next i'll go at the Egyptians (who are very powerful). I'm not going at the Americans because they are too far, and i have cities in South America which the Americans can take easily. The Egypitians are relatively close, but they have to go through Greece, Rome, France, Babylon. Plus the Zulus who greatly admire me, will probably gladly fight. I have to make sure the Egyptians don't make right's of passages. This will be a big battle. The Romans, French and Greeks are weak and would fall easily. The egyptians can't touch my cities because my riflemen are too powerful but they can destroy improvements. The Zulus will be able to cause some trouble. I'll ask the Americans for aid, and if they do, they'll send caravels. I might get the whole world on Egyptians and i'll force them to give up cities. Chinese will be next because they are very advanced and have to be destroyed. This will be a really long war because the Chinese have a large empire, but not too powerful all though i doubt my allies's horsemen stand much of a chance against Chinese pikemen. I'll get the Indians on them too. At that point i'll launch a massive campaign on my allies when they are about to destroy the Chinese by sending their whole army in. The European nations will fall easily. The Zulus will still love me. The Indians will decalre war, but they'll have alot of land to go through. Meanwhile i'll call the Americans and Zulus again. I'll probably fight in this too.
At this point, India, China, Eygypt, Japan, Russia, France, Rome, Greece should be fairly weak. I'll still have the very powerful Americans to deal with and also the Aztecs and Zulus. I'll bribe the Americans and have them fight the Aztecs while i send reinforcements to my South American cities. The Americans should overrun the Aztecs. The Americans have much larger army than me, but are not nearly as advanced. My ironclads should make short work of their frigates. Transports will land panzers in America. Americans will attack with Cavalry and leftover swordsman. I'll proobably lose alot of units here, but they're musketmen stand little chance against my guys.
This is a large plan which probably won't work, but at the moment i can't really fight a direct war with anybody.
I have no access to saltpeter and can't make cavalry even. My best offensive unit is the knight.
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