Your Civ4 forecast

[Stapel]

Not having Leo's in Civ2 meant a restart for me.

I can't be bothered to exactly tell why, but I've played civ1 to death, civ2 just a lot, and civ3 to death again.

Arguments why civ3 is better?
-Diplomats in civ2 were FAR too strong
-Caravans in civ2 were FAR too strong
-Cultural borders!
-Armies!

Civ3 had too many bugs. I played 1.07 for a year....... Man... addictive, but buggy!

[Socrates]

quote:Originally posted by Stapel

Not having Leo's in Civ2 meant a restart for me.

Whenever I would lose it to the AIs, I would pursue a space victory or try to capture it. In fact, I would always play for a space victory, and when some AIs were too strong at the end of the game, they would gang up against me, and then I would be forced to fight them to death. Tons and tons of howitzers was my only strategy and it was effective, even on Deity. I can recall some close space races too. But I agree that Leo was so damn good. The best part was when you discovered a tech that upgraded all your, say, dragoons to cavalries in front of a large AI city. I wonder if the spam fairy was behind that.

Curiously, I would often restart the game when I lost the Colossus. I liked this wonder so much (because nothing beat science back then for me), and fortunately it wasn't in the middle of the game, like for Leo. I learnt to forget about the Colossus with Civ3, where science is basically a trade market.