05-12-2001 02:14									#1
	Hurray, I graduated to diety!! Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

I played emperor lvl and had some success. I never went through an entire game so that I can learn how to start effectively. I was doing huge map w/16. Then I went to diety and got nowhere. Because of the great distances between civs, I could not launch an effective attack early. I soon lost my spirit. Then I went to normal/8 and the difference was huge!

In my first game as the Greeks, I took over most of Egypt. I wouldn't give the Romans Banking, so we went to war. I had both horses and iron so I built knights. When I got Military Tradition, I traded for SP and made cavalry. Then the Germans attacked with their cavalry.

So I had a two front war. Mobilized. Kicked their butts a little. Got peace. Got a leader and built FP.

My mistakes:

1. I didn't stay in despotism long enough to pop-build everything I needed. It took a long time in Republic to build anything in fringe cities.

2. When researching Republic, I put science high because I figured I'd eventually reduce the discovery time. But it took 32 turns. Lost money there.

3. Right before I got peace with everybody, I had a revolution because Democracy gave me tons of unhappiness due to WW. I should've waited for peace or should've switched to Monarchy earlier.

4. I placed my FP on the Greek/Roman border. This will help me in the long run when I conquer the Romans, but perhaps it would've been more advantageous if I had placed it where it would've helped me immediately.

5. Early GA. I noticed the Hoplite didn't instigate my GA when defending, but did so when I took a city. I sould've left them for later, because there will always be a weak unit to destroy during the game -- longbowman.

Playing the regular-size map instead of the huge makes diety so much more playable.

	05-12-2001 05:20									#2
	Support Apolyton, buy Call to Power 2

Congratulations! Well done.

	05-12-2001 06:40									#3
	Phooey Tired of ads?

I can't win on warlord, I must be doing something wrong! I need help...hehe

	05-12-2001 06:57									#4
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

qool, congrats.

I'm still struggling at regent.

	05-12-2001 07:55									#5
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

i'd sure like the game so i could get to this point.... (waiting for mac port)



congratulations to you, though.

	05-12-2001 08:10									#6
	Re: Hurray, I graduated to diety!! Got spare money?

quote: Originally posted by Kriton Playing the regular-size map instead of the huge makes diety so much more playable.

Really? Diety is the only way I'll play now and I've found that I have better success on Huge maps than on smaller ones. I'm a sort of Perfectionist when it comes to Civ and need time to build up instead of fighting the constant enemy swordsmen rush/onslaught.

Congrats btw.