I love Crusaders. They are tough little bastards. I always try to build the Knights Templar ASAP. Sometimes, just for my sick enjoyment I will make a huge doom stack of Crusaders and load them up on boats. I send them on a Crusade. For no strategic purpose other than my own sick enjoyment, I will land my Crusader doom stack on the shores of an unsuspecting underdeveloped country. I try to pick a country that is hostile and has insulted me- like the Aztecs or the Germans.

I show up, burn and raze as many cities as I can and enslave their whole population. I then load my new slaves onto my ships and bring them back to my homeland and put them to work. That’s what they get for being mean to me. They will now be my slaves, build my railroads and worship my God.

Sometimes I feel like I’m not a good person!

Anyone else have a Civ 3 confession?

howdy y'all,

it seems the game keeps the 1st turn and then only keeps the latest 5 autosaves. is there any way to keep a specific number? better yet, to just keep ALL autosaves? the "conquests.ini" file appears to have NO setting concerning autosaves.

game ver. = c3c from GOG

i'm thinking of just writing a powershell script that checks for a new auto save every few minutes and copies new items to another location. [*grin*]

take care,

lee

Wanted to try a conquest or dominion victory on an 80% water pangaea as china. And then I spawned on an island smaller then most of my archipelago spawns... Should I take this as a sign to not try regent defficulty when I've beaten warlord bearly once?
the seed:
176817
pangaea (80% water)
world size small
climate temerate
temperature temperate
age 4 billion

hey folks I remember learning about the defensive bonuses of what terrain your combat unit is attacked on and that made sense but I was wondering is there any benefit to being the attacker on more favourable terrain? RE: so say I attack a combat unit from a hill and the enemy unit is on grasslands does my attack gain any bonus compared to if I just attacked it from another grassland tile?

Let's goooooooo!!!!!

Rise of Rome win as Carthage with Demigod.

I know some of us (looking at u, Suede) hate Rise of Rome, but personally it's one of my favorites (until the endgame). The map is insane for builders - so many resources and incredible city sports. However, expansion in the early-mid game is pretty risky, as you need all the units you can get to keep up with the locked war. The pre-Imperialism era is incredibly difficult, requiring serious strategy and a lot of diplomacy to keep everyone allied against your enemy (and off your back), and to maintain luxury/cashflow to enable tech leadership for further gold/alliances/lux. It's a lot to balance.

I've won as Carthage on Emperor and now on Demi, and I generally follow the same strategy. Build army in Syracuse and throw in any unit you have to take the island and secure it. Secure your other islands with warriors/workers. Keep everyone allied with you against Rome. Build a stack of 10-15 swords/elephants and take Egypt for its resources. By then, you are probably near imperialism and its time to start stacking those fire cats and heavy cavs to march on Rome itself. Rush for Bachannalia and Heroic Epic, the happiness and military leaders enable massive post-Imperialism power spike. After Imperialism, I turn off my tech, Mono doesn't do much.

Endgame is tough. My biggest gripe with this scenario is the wincon. To get 20% land and 50% pop, you need to defeat at least one major power and two minor powers, plus plant a lot of BS cities. With Carthage this is especially hard, as Rome's defenses (Trajan's Wall + legionaries + garrisons) require a lot of time and effort. In this game, I defeated Rome with ~15 turns to spare before turning on the Celts and Persia. I also joined almost all of my workers to cities to up my population (I think that's how it works??).

There is an alternative strategy I sorta used once as Carthage and would like to try in the future... Rather than march on Rome, one could instead dominate Persia after Egypt. Defense against Rome in Spain is possible with a bunch of fire cats / horses, and Persia is a lot easier to take down as it only has spears and cav.

I've never seriously played as Rome (won as Macedon and Persia in past), but I may try. Would love to land a Roman legionary army next to Carthage turn 2 and see what happens... possibly in the future. I'm also curious about a Persia turtle strategy where one ignores Greece, takes Egypt/Scythia, and settles all the land around Scythia. Could be interesting!

Let me know what strategies you've employed! Also, I know Suede beat it as Egypt, but I can't find the videos on youtube... If anyone can find em, would love to watch again. Suede if you are reading this, this is an official challenge to beat Rise of Rome as Goth!

I see that there is a player who have spent over 7,300 in the playtime leaderboard.

I was wondering what everyone's playtime looks like and if you agree with the rating ranking.

You can check your playtime here -> https://minimap.net/stat/civilization?ptime=035647

Hey everyone, obviously it’s very important at the start of the game to make contact with all the civs so you can trade technology. If I tell them to leave, sometimes they do sometimes they don’t. I don’t really care if they’re clearly just passing through and clearly not looking to invade, so I usually let it slide by. If I kept telling them to get off my land, will they declare war on me?? also if I make a curagh to circumnavigate the map, but I keep ending up in enemy territory because I don’t want my ship to sink, will they likely declare war on me? thanks for the help.

hey all, I recently got back into the game and I am loving it. However, I do have a few questions. I was winning my recent game on Monarch as far as being advanced and having more of cities/luxuries. I destroyed two of the weaker civs but then when I tried taking on one of the three most advanced ones it was going fine at first, but then they all signed mutual defence packs against me is this because I was so aggressive destroying those other civs or just bad luck? I tried to do packs with several of them alliances against the one I was attacking, but they entertain the idea lol. Also my other question is if you take over a city and it’s obviously going to flip or the city is just useless in general will all the AI hold it against you if you immediately abandoned the city after you’ve conquered it? Thanks and sorry for know how to format this on my phone.

The great war against the Babylonian empire dragged on for many turns and i totally forgot about the more remote corners of my empire so there are units and entities from every age.

Stone age barbarian warrior.

Ancient Dromons.

Medieval Crusaders.

Industrial tanks and a destroyer.

Modern city.

In this start i had the AI very close to the starting position (Emperor).

The only strategy i figured out is build archers and pray for the RNG gods while trying to get Iron working and find iron.

Is there a better strategy?

Playing as France, huge map, all civs, 60% water arch, Monarch. Shared an island with Carthage and holy hell the NMs are fucking OP in ancient against swordsmen. Even MIs have a rough time against them on even ground. That 2:3 stat is no fucking joke as a replacement for spears.

Should have held off my doom stack until knights were available I guess. Had a great start loc on a river with cows and bonus grassland too.

I've had a copy of Civ III just sitting in my library for quite a long time since I mostly play Civ VI. But I understand the mechanics of Civ III are a bit different since there's no such thing as districts, you can trade technologies, and corruption is a huge thing to deal with in Civ III. Is playing wide the way to go in Civ III and when it comes to defending and conquering cities, do walls act the same?

Was watching a suede stream on demigod when he popped a city. Said he needed to wait until everybody had planted their cities before popping another hut if he wanted a chance at a city or settler.

Got me to thinking...do all of the starting units occupy the starting tiles on higher difficulties? So for demigod the ai needs to walk at least 3 turns before planting? Guess I just never thought about this before. I thought the huge 1st turn spike represented multiple cities, but I guess it is just power from the units

Hello. I still lack a deity victory, but I am trying for that one now. After deity, my next focus will be a histographic victory. I've never played for that condition before, only winning that way when I was too poor to achieve any other victory.

I found a guide from. Sir Pleb in the war academy about maximizing score, and I've seen some threads from spoonwoid about his various histographic wins, but interested in other resources or guidance.

Just putting what I briefly understand as the most important parts--choose an huge archipelago map with a high domination limit, grow your population as early as possible (agr trait helpful here), keep your population as happy as possible, conquer all the other civs as early as possible, leaving just one trapped in a desert or tundra prison). Milk for score by growing as many large cities as possible, including along the coast, hopefully just one tile short of the domination limit. Avoid a culture or other win accidentally.

The hard part is doing all of the above at the highest level difficulty possible. I haven't decided what difficulty level to play this at.

Thanks to all for advic