Civilization V

Zethor said:
I've played a game with China in which the psycho Shaka (Zulu) wiped out Morocco, two city states and was plotting against me (Brazil warned me about it!). I rushed my tech to enable building my special crossbows and I attacked him after he declared war on another neighbour, Polynesia. I quickly took one of this 11 cities (!! I only had 4... ), fortified it with walls and turned two of my generals into that special fortification they make, around the captured city. He lost 40+ army units vs my 6 crossbows, 3 knights and 4 swordmen and now he's offering me the stars and the moon for peace, lol.
I will accept the peace after I send him back to the Stoneage.

Immortal difficulty.
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Chinese crossbow and english longbows are extremely effective. The double shot bonus and extra range bonus respectively carries across when you upgrade the units. If you end up in a long war the units can gain an extra shot through experience. They become extremely powerful.
 
Bought the Brave New Worlds & Gods & Kings packs, then downloaded latest Ice & Snow mod from Steamworkshop. Found myself randomly selected as Lord Tywyn and decided to play in his style - Ruthless and with financial scrutiny! Nearest neighbour on the Eastern Isle was Daenarys, who repeatedly spied and stole technologies from me. She also had the cheek to send a settler to build a city inbetween 2 of mine! Having rebuked her for spying and settling too close, The Mother of Dragons declared War on me, the Head of the Lannisters. Needless to say, after losing her new found city, three armies and an assault on Astapor, The Lady With Golden Hair sued for peace. I rejected and continued the assault on her capitol. The next round, her offer for peace was increased by offering gold and the city of Mereen to me. I gladly accepted her offer and spent the gold buying the sovereign city of Qhoror. Tonight, my forces are growing around the Dragon Lady's borders, in anticipation of another invasion should she deceive me again. I have killed one of her spies at Casterly Rock, who failed to steal more technology, but I let that matter slip as we are still in a trial period of peace. However, once the peace trial expires and the Fair Queen sends another spy, then Astapor will fall swiftly under my trebuchets.....
 
So i downloaded this last night, only had about 10 mins to play as i was busy, but first thoughts are its fun and confusing, but in time i will understand what i'm doing, and omg is there a GoT mod?!
 
I HATE THIS GAME!!!

it kept me up till 3 this morning, it wouldn't let me leave! Kept pulling me in.

but yeah, slowly getting to grips with what to build etc, still haven't made it out of the classic era.

So i tried to get the GoT mod, subscribed, it just wouldnt download, any ideas?
 
Played an immortal game today. It was hard going but I managed to avoid any wars. The AI were significantly smarter at this level. I avoided wonders at first so i could spend the time building other buildings. I started building wonders at Pyramids onwards. I managed to build quite a few this time. However I did find the AI were ahead on almost every stat. I was self feeding my empire with cargo ships to really boost it but I still fell behind. I think building a bigger empire would have helped. I lost after one AI bought off all the city-states for diplomatic victory. Very sneaky way to win.
 
I also got BNW expansion in the recent Steam sale. For me, it has completed the game nicely - I always felt the game seemed geared towards endless warring but the new additions of tourism etc. have rebalanced this. With a couple of choice mods this game is simply fantastic. Just had a good game with India in which I won by being elected as World Leader. I did it with just one city @ Prince difficulty. Time to move up to King now and probably get my *** kicked. Does anyone know if you can still get Steam achievements if you use the GoT mod? I fancy a go at that...
 
UltimateBadger said:
I also got BNW expansion in the recent Steam sale. For me, it has completed the game nicely.
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It really does. I've had it since launch and bought each update as it came out, each time the game gets closer to Civ IV (as mentioned above it was nowhere near on vanilla). The newest additions really rounded it off.

Can't wait 'til October now!
 
delta0 said:
Played an immortal game today. It was hard going but I managed to avoid any wars. The AI were significantly smarter at this level. I avoided wonders at first so i could spend the time building other buildings. I started building wonders at Pyramids onwards. I managed to build quite a few this time. However I did find the AI were ahead on almost every stat. I was self feeding my empire with cargo ships to really boost it but I still fell behind. I think building a bigger empire would have helped. I lost after one AI bought off all the city-states for diplomatic victory. Very sneaky way to win.
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I've noticed that you rarely have a chance to win on Immortal if you play passively, the resource advantages the AI receives is very difficult to match by expanding peacefully. You should've noticed one of the AIs has too many City State friends and you should've sent secret agents in 2-3 of the most vulnerable ones.
 
Oh, update on me playing this. I put in about 5 hours just on the training game. Got to end game and was winning then noted you couldn't save lol.

Started a new game. But question, I love playing aggressively. Building up an army and just dominating the other civ's/towns. It's obviously not the best way to play. But how do I cope with barbarians if I don't wish to play aggressively?

Secondly, I normally go off what my advisors suggest when researching/building. Are they right all the time as some times their choices seem stupid. Like suggesting I build tonnes of sea crafts when I can't do anything due to being cut off so the ships would sit in an unoccupied ocean...

Thanks
 
agnes said:
Started a new game. But question, I love playing aggressively. Building up an army and just dominating the other civ's/towns. It's obviously not the best way to play. But how do I cope with barbarians if I don't wish to play aggressively?

Secondly, I normally go off what my advisors suggest when researching/building. Are they right all the time as some times their choices seem stupid. Like suggesting I build tonnes of sea crafts when I can't do anything due to being cut off so the ships would sit in an unoccupied ocean...

Thanks
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Nothing wrong with playing aggressively, I usually do as its the most fun. Having said that I rarely win through domination as often I can't be bothered to travel to the other side of the globe to finish everyone, so I might switch to a science victory or world leader. Strangely in my last game I managed to switch to culture, helped in large by having taken over all the cities of a civ who was very tourism focussed.

Whichever I'm going for I usually focus on science as I figure that's important however you want to play. I also like to get plenty of city state allies, not just for the votes but they can be very useful when you go to war with somebody.

If you don't want to be aggressive you should be fine with barbarians, you don't need much to defeat them and you'll want a bit of an army regardless, as chances are somebody is going to attack you.

Personally I would say ignore your advisory, with the possible exception of which tile improvements to build.
 
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