jack merchant
02-06-2003, 19:35
The expansionist Russian lands look like this, after a rocky, barb plagued start.
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/jack merchant/200362192952_CBvsJM_lands.jpg
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Hut luck was the worst ever - on the bright side though, my knowledge of lands unexplored by the AI plus 60 gold did net me writing, eventually, and I parlayed that into three other techs by trading.
As you can see, the placement of my two southern cities is somewhat cramped, but my southernomst city had to be placed where it was before suffering premature settler death at the hands of a barb horsie. The other spot was the only remaining sensible place to put a settler - no ICS was intended.
Being behind in tech usually means you have to go to war, and I have, After initial success, claiming the only Persian source of iron, I ran into this:
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/jack merchant/200362193416_CBvsJM_archerarmy.jpg
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[eek]
I suspect I'll have to make peace now - I was just one archer short of taking Arbela !
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/jack merchant/200362192952_CBvsJM_lands.jpg
36.54KB
Hut luck was the worst ever - on the bright side though, my knowledge of lands unexplored by the AI plus 60 gold did net me writing, eventually, and I parlayed that into three other techs by trading.
As you can see, the placement of my two southern cities is somewhat cramped, but my southernomst city had to be placed where it was before suffering premature settler death at the hands of a barb horsie. The other spot was the only remaining sensible place to put a settler - no ICS was intended.
Being behind in tech usually means you have to go to war, and I have, After initial success, claiming the only Persian source of iron, I ran into this:
http://www.civ3duelzone.com/forum/uploaded/jack merchant/200362193416_CBvsJM_archerarmy.jpg
18.9KB
[eek]
I suspect I'll have to make peace now - I was just one archer short of taking Arbela !