#civ3

[ancient-rome-au]

If anyone is curious as how my recent game as the Celts in Civ 3 went, I recorded the map time lapse and other "game over" screens.

TL;DR: Persia stomped me with a culture victory.

Once I defeated the Aztecs, securing exclusive control of my starting and made contact with the outside world, I was able to progress fairly quickly in tech. From 1800 to 2000, I grew my empire substantially by conquering Spain, the Maya, and France. I was pretty much equal with the other great powers technologically, except for Persia (who refused to trade any techs to me). The rest of us were stuck in the Industrial Revolution while Persia was in the modern era!

I think I'll return to Civ V next.

[swedebeast]

One of the best tracks in the civ franchise.

[digital-magus]

Civ3 was my first Civilization game, and the main reason I got it was the box art made me think it had giants in it.

[samueldays]

The Civ3 AI will sometimes start moving its troops through your territory en masse, daring you to complain that this constitutes a casus belli. I opted not to fight.

Partly because their 60 units (some outside screenshot) had a much greater concentration of force while my army was invading France.

Partly because AI units in foreign territory like this, not having signed a Right of Passage agreement, do not benefit from railroad movement. Their army was moving at walking speed across my empire and contributing nothing to their war but consuming upkeep for a long time.

[samueldays]

Another dumb thing about the Civ3 AI is that if it's far behind in tech like India here, it can accumulate hordes of Iron-Middle Age units in a seeming attempt to make up in quantity (spoiler: this doesn't work), and then expend its treasury paying wages for those hordes instead of hiring scientists, which leaves it stuck behind on tech. So my Industrial Age army cleans up.

[samueldays]

Civ3-related brain noise: Romans are red, Germans are blue, Egyptians are yellow and so are Zulu.

[samueldays]

1) How do you manage to produce only four shields in a size twelve city?

2) How do you decide that Four Shield City should start building a World Wonder??

3) How did Four Shield City produce all the other improvements seen at lower left???

4) working sea tiles with no harbor

this AI, man, sometimes it just beclowns itself, for all that the game is otherwise fun

[samueldays]

Hey, that wasn’t there last turn!

They can do that? Spawn barbarian camps right next to my workers? Just because I left a little hole in my cultural borders? :O