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I am currently playing a game on C3C on a Huge map with a total of 31 Civs
competing at once! For those of you who haven't tried it, you should do.
It's mad! I'm playing Monarch and leading the Science race but am so far
behind what I usually am at this point that the Science timeline is almost
realistic! It's the middle ages and we are all still using middle ages
units.
It really forces you to rethink your strategies too and makes for a much
more interesting game!. I normally use my capital as a settler factory in
the early stages of the game. This often means that the AI has 4 cities up
and running before I even have my 2nd if I have had to wander around looking
for a good starting location. Tried that first game I played and before I
knew it I was surrounded with no chance of expansion!
I thought scientifically it may speed things up as you'd have loads of civs
trading techs but the opposite has actually happened because there no
superpower civs yet (there are still 30 of us left, only the Romans have
been destroyed) no one really can churn out masses of Science so the
progression rate is more realistic and slower than usual.
Finally resources take on a whole knew twist. Almost twice as many civs
fighting over the same amount of resources! It means you have to trade a lot
more and be a lot more careful about who you wage war on as you have so few
cities you simply cannot afford to lose a couple, and because you can't
churn out stacks of military units its harder to take other cities too (not
to mention you march them off to war and your nearest neighbour may decide
to pay your Kingdom a visit!). It's vital that you get early Scientific
knowledge of The Wheel and Iron Working so you can hopefully spot some
untaken Iron/Horse before your rivals. In my current game I have Iron, but
the City is right next to the American border and is a Desert city so only
has a pop of 3. I am constantly worried that its going to get culture
flipped and I'll lose my precious Iron! I don't even have Horse and am
currently having to trade for it! The positive side is that means some
rivals who are technologically as advanced as I am don't have the resource
to build a decent military either. I am currently at war with the Zulu and
although they are pretty much up with me technologically they have no Iron
or Horse so my Medieval Infantry and Knights are wiping the floor with them.
They have just discovered Invention though so they at least have Bowman.
Next step for me is to get Gunpowder and hope that I have Saltpeter
somewhere in my borders.....
I play Huge Map, Continents with 70% water.
I am currently playing a game on C3C on a Huge map with a total of 31 Civs
competing at once! For those of you who haven't tried it, you should do.
It's mad! I'm playing Monarch and leading the Science race but am so far
behind what I usually am at this point that the Science timeline is almost
realistic! It's the middle ages and we are all still using middle ages
units.
It really forces you to rethink your strategies too and makes for a much
more interesting game!. I normally use my capital as a settler factory in
the early stages of the game. This often means that the AI has 4 cities up
and running before I even have my 2nd if I have had to wander around looking
for a good starting location. Tried that first game I played and before I
knew it I was surrounded with no chance of expansion!
I thought scientifically it may speed things up as you'd have loads of civs
trading techs but the opposite has actually happened because there no
superpower civs yet (there are still 30 of us left, only the Romans have
been destroyed) no one really can churn out masses of Science so the
progression rate is more realistic and slower than usual.
Finally resources take on a whole knew twist. Almost twice as many civs
fighting over the same amount of resources! It means you have to trade a lot
more and be a lot more careful about who you wage war on as you have so few
cities you simply cannot afford to lose a couple, and because you can't
churn out stacks of military units its harder to take other cities too (not
to mention you march them off to war and your nearest neighbour may decide
to pay your Kingdom a visit!). It's vital that you get early Scientific
knowledge of The Wheel and Iron Working so you can hopefully spot some
untaken Iron/Horse before your rivals. In my current game I have Iron, but
the City is right next to the American border and is a Desert city so only
has a pop of 3. I am constantly worried that its going to get culture
flipped and I'll lose my precious Iron! I don't even have Horse and am
currently having to trade for it! The positive side is that means some
rivals who are technologically as advanced as I am don't have the resource
to build a decent military either. I am currently at war with the Zulu and
although they are pretty much up with me technologically they have no Iron
or Horse so my Medieval Infantry and Knights are wiping the floor with them.
They have just discovered Invention though so they at least have Bowman.
Next step for me is to get Gunpowder and hope that I have Saltpeter
somewhere in my borders.....
I play Huge Map, Continents with 70% water.
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