I just had the most thrilling game of Civ 4 (prince difficulty). I also now make any renounciation of any claims that I am anything other than a cruel, evil heartless bastard. I was playing as the Incans, and grabbed Hinduism first. Ghandi, to my north grabbed the other two early religions. I had a lot of land that needed grabbing, so I bent my will around securing as much of the continent as I could. I also found Egypt had started on the same continent.
To cut a long story short, I managed to grab around 50% of the continent, with Ghandi grabbing around 40% and the Egyptions getting a meager 10%. I was absolutely broke paying maintanance costs. Trying to reach currency I had to spend probably 10-20 turns without any science at all to break even (too many cities really hurts!). I built way more cottages than normal, particularly around rivers (which gives the bonus +1 gold for financial civs straight away).
Meanwhile Ghandi built nearly every wonder in the game. I kid you not, he built more wonders and generated more leaders than all the rest of the AI and me put together. He also maintained a tech lead on me throughout the entire game of a minimum of 3-4 techs (well until right at the end). Never was I in any position to threaten him militarily. However, I kept him a close ally throughout the game, and by the end he had around +15 relations with me. I wanted to attack Ghandi as soon as I got tanks, but the moment I had the tech for tanks, he had mech inf in every city![[Image: cry.gif]](http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/images/smilies/cry.gif)
. The game went right to the wire. He built the UN and neither of us could win the vote (we were 1 and 2). With about 3 parts left for his ship, I decided that it was time to get some spies into his land.
The next turn 2 parts finished. The stasis chamber was all Ghandi had left to build. And he was nearly done. I was still missing genetics. This was going to be close. I saved my pennies and risked a sabotage. Success! I also managed to get genetics. I investigated his city. 6 turns until completion. I started the stasis chamber in my best city (my only part left to build). 7 turns. I microed to get every single sheild I could out of the city and still it came to 7 turns.![[Image: mad.gif]](http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/images/smilies/mad.gif)
I was not going to be beaten by 1 turn if it killed me!. I saved my pennies again and risked a second sabotage attempt...
Success!! The spies had saved my game. I'm glad I built them, they were worth every sheild, and gold I spent on them. Sometimes it truly is better to be both lucky and good
. If the spy had have failed I would have had 1 more shot at the sabotage, and if that failed I was going to have to try and disable the city with bombers in the one turn I had left to play before he built the part. In 1973 I built the stasis chamber and flew off into the stars. So like I said, I'm a cheating backstabbing bastard .
-Smegged
To cut a long story short, I managed to grab around 50% of the continent, with Ghandi grabbing around 40% and the Egyptions getting a meager 10%. I was absolutely broke paying maintanance costs. Trying to reach currency I had to spend probably 10-20 turns without any science at all to break even (too many cities really hurts!). I built way more cottages than normal, particularly around rivers (which gives the bonus +1 gold for financial civs straight away).
Meanwhile Ghandi built nearly every wonder in the game. I kid you not, he built more wonders and generated more leaders than all the rest of the AI and me put together. He also maintained a tech lead on me throughout the entire game of a minimum of 3-4 techs (well until right at the end). Never was I in any position to threaten him militarily. However, I kept him a close ally throughout the game, and by the end he had around +15 relations with me. I wanted to attack Ghandi as soon as I got tanks, but the moment I had the tech for tanks, he had mech inf in every city
. The game went right to the wire. He built the UN and neither of us could win the vote (we were 1 and 2). With about 3 parts left for his ship, I decided that it was time to get some spies into his land.The next turn 2 parts finished. The stasis chamber was all Ghandi had left to build. And he was nearly done. I was still missing genetics. This was going to be close. I saved my pennies and risked a sabotage. Success! I also managed to get genetics. I investigated his city. 6 turns until completion. I started the stasis chamber in my best city (my only part left to build). 7 turns. I microed to get every single sheild I could out of the city and still it came to 7 turns.
I was not going to be beaten by 1 turn if it killed me!. I saved my pennies again and risked a second sabotage attempt...Success!! The spies had saved my game. I'm glad I built them, they were worth every sheild, and gold I spent on them. Sometimes it truly is better to be both lucky and good
. If the spy had have failed I would have had 1 more shot at the sabotage, and if that failed I was going to have to try and disable the city with bombers in the one turn I had left to play before he built the part. In 1973 I built the stasis chamber and flew off into the stars. So like I said, I'm a cheating backstabbing bastard .-Smegged
