Civ3

anyone else play this game?

i've been at war with india for like 300 years now and it is a practical stalemate.

we are the last two remaining countries and i have at least 10 cities churning out ICBMs every 3-5 turns.

but we both have satellite missile defense systems, so there hasn't been a huge conflagration.

i am developing naval forces (i concentrated solely on land forces throughout the game) so i can cross the ocean and roll several hundred tanks around their land mass.

i made a space station. haven't been to alpha centauri yet.

But why don't you just concentrate your energies on getting to Alpha Centauri and forget overrunning the Indians?

they had about two cities on my land mass (the map is two continents) and it spoiled the large blue map that is my territory.

anyway, they wouldn't talk to my envoy for the longest time and when i finally got through, gandhi wanted one of my principal cities in addition to a peace treaty.

so now they land small invasion forces at my coastal cities and we throw missiles at each other, but strangely this is the longest war with little or no damage . . .

That Gandhi, no negotiating with that nut.... ;)

comes off all sweet, but shanks you in the shower or in the rec yard.

I've actually stopped playing it because I think it bugs him that I'm better than him. He never comes out and says it, but he keeps comparing his scores and levels to mine. Plus he likes cheat codes and I don't believe in them.

Still, it's a fun game.

you might get much more interest posting this in the 'gaming group'

I played on the Earth (huge) map and the whole world is going to hell.
I'm the biggest (I have North America to myself) and all the other guys are nuking themselves into oblivion. No one has tried to nuke me - and now I have the missle defense system.

I've turned off the space race stuff, so I'm just trying to get elected head of the UN.

who wages elective war.

i singlehandedly wiped out russia, china, america, and france.

in NW N. America and the Japanese (in Europe) and the Romans in S. America - but that was recent and they were stoneage compared to me (not even tanks when I had modern armor).
So I control all of NA and western Europe.
I have enough alliances to keep England (in Australia) from ever trying anything (they are 2nd biggest) and they have been hit with nukes.

And I don't mean Civ I and Civ II -- I mean this one Civ III game where we've just discovered gunpowder!

Naah, that's a lie. I've played 'em all, and there's no question in my mind that Civ is the best computer game ever. OK, maybe the best turn-based strategic game, but I don't like the tactical ones where you practically have to take meth to keep up with the action.

In any case, I've always tried to develop a broad-based society so I don't have to depend on any one weapon system when it comes down to the short strokes with (generally) a single surviving opponent.

I also seed the planet with cities VERY AGGRESSIVELY throughout the early game, even at the expense of just about everything else (except critical Wonders), so that by the time the other Civs begin their expansionist phase, I'm already everywhere and they have to spend the critical middle game attacking my sacrificial cities while I'm continuing to colonize and develop. It generally works.

the insides with more cities when there is nowhere else to go.

I don't usually lose any cities for very long.

The only PC game I've played in the past 10 years has been Medieval: Total War. How does Civ3 compare? I enjoyed both the nation building & combat in MTW, and I think Civ3 concentrates more on that aspect of it, if I'm not mistaken.

and i really am not a gaming nut, but i've spent at least 10 hours playing this game in one sitting.

i think it is practically free nowadays.

I have about 1000 hours of use so far...

Wheneve I'm visiting my brother I try to play and it is always either too easy or way too hard

sometimes as emperor

I have to be careful before I start a game that I have nothing planned for the next 24 hours.

I suggest taking a defensive position and focusing on building the Spaceship. India will sue for peace eventually, and you will already be geared up for the space race.

I like to develop a perfect record with all the Civs so they trust me. (I rarely attack first, and I never break treaties) I bide my time and build a mammoth army.

Once I have their trust, I mass my own transports right outside territorial boarders.

Then, with no provocation: WHAM! I rain a hail of white-hot nuclear death onto my opponents with hundreds (Yes, hundreds.) of ICBMs. I destroy the entire road-system, thus removing the civs ability to have access to resources.

With no strategic resources to re-build their defenses, I roll over the other civs like they were average incumbent congressional Democrats.

Civ3 brings out the evil republican in me.

:evilgrin:

i'll get 20 cities built up, have 10 produce subs and the other 10 produce cruise missles, whenever was is initiated, i destroy all thier units and have a warrior take over cities

Unfortunately, my computer is a little old and slow.

I'm considering getting a brand-new one solely for this game.

(Also, I heard a rumor the other day that Civ IV MAY be out by Christmas...)

I ramp up my science and tech early on while doing some mad dashes to take out any local tribes. Once I have the upper hand tech wise I squish anything that even gives me a sideways glance.

its not hard

one of the best ever.

That's pretty much all I play anymore.

Personally, I prefer to be at peace and then land fifty to a hundred modern armors and a few dozen support units and two or three opposite points on the continent of a large and technologically advanced civilization, then completely level the place in three to four turns.