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The Chinese are *so* fucked

Posted: 2004-05-01 10:59pm
by Bob McDob
And in this scene, class, my glorious armada of Mercenary Privateers lays siege to the decadent Chinese Empire. The best part being, of course, that Privateers have hidden nationality, so I can get my ships into just the position I want before I declare war and the Chinese can't do a damn thing because their military is so damn pathetic :)

Several turns later ...

I have crushed the puny Chinese and turned my attention to Japan. My fleet of mercenaries and bombers quickly captures Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo, and moves in to lay siege to Edo. Of course, the fact that I possess ten times as many heavy battleships than everyone else put together helps somewhat :twisted:

Soon I will march on the pitiful Purple kingdom whoser name I forgot, then "forcibly annex" the satellite nation of the Zulus, after which I shall be GOD EMPEROR OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE! BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

(If you have absolutely no clue what I'm babbling about, lookie here).

Posted: 2004-05-01 11:28pm
by HemlockGrey
Bah. That can't compare to my Dutch Empire in Victoria. Hail Willem III, King of the United Netherlands, King of Siam, Malacca and Sumatra, Emperor of Japan and Korea, Lord of Trieste, Alaska, and the Dutch Carribean!

I hear CivIII nerfed the war aspect of the game to focus more on the boring, peaceful stuff.

Posted: 2004-05-02 05:46am
by frigidmagi
I never noticed, as my Roman legions ground all foes to powder.

ALL HAIL CAESAR! ROMA VICTOR!!! :wink:

Posted: 2004-05-02 06:02am
by InnocentBystander
A space mod for Civ3, cool. I do happen to like Civ3, though I'll admit it's definatly missing something that old game had. It really does need more technologies per era, I go from frigates to destroyers way too quickly, never even get a chance to use 'em!
frigidmagi wrote:I never noticed, as my Roman legions ground all foes to powder.
Rome? Ha, none can surpass the comercial, scientific greeks, you may have Legions, but they can do little when I can already field cavalry and riflemen!

Posted: 2004-05-02 06:04am
by Rogue 9
Bah! The Romans had cavalry; the reason the Greeks lost to Rome is because they had nothing but heavy infantry. :P

Posted: 2004-05-02 06:09am
by frigidmagi
Tremble before the might of Roman Armor and Marines, Pencil Necked Greek! (Yes, I stole that from someone, but who?)

Posted: 2004-05-02 06:19am
by Ace Pace
Fear my Danish Legions 200000 men strong, conquering Europe.
Or just ignore the hell out of me, since I don't play CIV :P

Posted: 2004-05-03 04:37am
by InnocentBystander
Rogue 9 wrote:Bah! The Romans had cavalry; the reason the Greeks lost to Rome is because they had nothing but heavy infantry. :P
Sure Roman Cavalry was nice, but when you start exchanging swords and pilums for rifles and revolvers, things get interesting :twisted:

Posted: 2004-05-03 08:26am
by frigidmagi
In my games the Greeks usually don't last to gunpowder. :twisted:

Even when they do, they fall before before the mighty combined arms of the Roman Military!

Posted: 2004-05-04 01:02am
by The Yosemite Bear
Don't make me sic my viking trade company on your butt....

Posted: 2004-05-04 01:03am
by frigidmagi
Bah, I fear no Vikings.

Posted: 2004-05-04 01:05am
by The Yosemite Bear
Weere not just vinkings were vikings who explore and sendo out our merhant envoys to all corners of the globe...

actually trading and then sending out our military when folks piss us off...

Posted: 2004-05-04 01:17am
by frigidmagi
Sounds like worthy oppoents, truely Mars will bless the battlefield where we meet! :wink:

Posted: 2004-05-04 01:19am
by Rogue 9
*Starts playing "Mars, the Bringer of War" by Gustav Holst.* :twisted:

Posted: 2004-05-04 01:34am
by The Yosemite Bear
Counters with "Ride of the Vakuries"

Posted: 2004-05-04 01:48am
by Trytostaydead
..you guys are geeks, every last one of you.

Posted: 2004-05-04 01:52am
by Rogue 9
Trytostaydead wrote:..you guys are geeks, every last one of you.
An orchestra geek, thank you very much! :P

Posted: 2004-05-04 02:41am
by Stofsk
Trytostaydead wrote:..you guys are geeks, every last one of you.
Geeks rule the universe; jocks do our bidding.

[clint eastwood accent]"Now, which are you boy?"[/end accent]

8) :wink:

Posted: 2004-05-04 02:48am
by BoyRocketeer
I always play as the American and go after the Japanese for some reason.

Posted: 2004-05-04 04:30am
by Exonerate
My spearmen hidden within the deep recesses of my cities will grind your tanks to dust! :lol:

Posted: 2004-05-04 06:25am
by Bob McDob
Trytostaydead wrote:My spearmen hidden within the deep recesses of my cities will grind your tanks to dust! .
The Geek Democracy shall crush your pitiful grunts from orbit!

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Anyway, this game was great, because I started out as the Greeks (strangely enough :) ) and was immedietly attacked by every single country. Fortunately I had the foresight to build up my military beforehand, so my frigates easily repulsed the initial assault.

Then I took the offensive, and my assault frigates captured the English and American cities. After that it was just expanding outward and building my military up. At one point the Egyptians made a raid on my border, and I retaliated by bombing the hell out of their planets and annexing them in the name of " national security" :twisted: I fought at least four wars but started none of them, and I always ended larger than when I had begun :P

The mod is actually pretty neat ... it's not animated, but I can honestly say I didn't miss it one bit. Most obvious problems is that it's not finished, the fourth age tech tree is empty and the civilizations are pretty much the same as civ standard. The other thing is that once you get to the heavy ships like the Battleship and Titan there's pretty much no reason to build anything else - the Titan has something like 40 attack / 40 defense and 11 hit points. If your opponent gets them before you, you're pretty much screwed - all you can do is sell yourself as dearly as you can.

(The Japanese actually took out one of my Titans when I sent it to attack Kyoto unescorted, but I had something like 40 of them so it didn't make much differece :) )

Posted: 2004-05-04 09:25am
by frigidmagi
My spearmen hidden within the deep recesses of my cities will grind your tanks to dust!
That's why you bomb the cities first. Or slam them with unholy amounts of indirect fire. Once again the combined arms of Rome crush your puny rebellion!

ROMA VICTOR!!! (Look I just like saying it okay?)

Posted: 2004-05-04 11:23am
by Rogue 9
Bob, I'm getting a red X on the picture.

Posted: 2004-05-05 01:15am
by The Yosemite Bear
I dp gppd combined arms and transport reguarldess of era.

high defense units in the same area as my artillery, then a mix of assult and shoot in the capture forces, usually along with enough forces to quickly build grmrts;d////

Posted: 2004-05-05 08:22am
by frigidmagi
Yup that'll do it.