civ 4

Yeah, well my elite scouts can run fast!

 

well I broke down and got it

Can some of you more experienced folk post some tips/strategies...... the last time I played civ was the original.

questions (may add to later):

1. when people are angry because it is too crowded, does that mean they need more stuff to expand the cities sphere of influence, or do you need workers to make more houses around the city?

2. Does iron only come from an iron mine....... in other words, if there are no iron mines around do you just ahve to skip any units that require it?

3. Is making an assault on enemies from the beginning advisable? I ended up with better technology than the computer opponents, but hey had so many units they got the best of me.

 

I keep building things that will increase the food support, the culture and the healthy aspects of my cities. This tends to make the influence spread and the city to grow faster. The Colisseum is big and the Theater to keep the masses happy. Building an Aqueduct is good too.

Once you are able to mine it if all your cities have been "networked" in other words roads interconnect them, if one city has the resource all cities get it. So when you begin sending out Settlers, make sure to park a new city next to a place that could potentially have iron or if you see iron.

This is probably personality based. I usually bide my time. Let my cities grow and watch my AI opponents. You will begin to see one get crowded out and he or she becomes weaker. I usually strike to liberate the people then.

But typically, at the beginning I am so busy fighting off barbarians I am not able to conduct any offensive moves. The barbarians do allow my units to build experience and get the bonuses for that.

Once I have started building granaries and gotten those completed, I usually go for a barracks for the experience it gives my military units.

 

Some other things I do - disclaimer! I am not an uber Civ 4 gamer!

- I always try at the beginning to get my scout and warrior out exploring as fast as they can. This does a couple of things for me.
1) It gets me gold from local villages
2) It will sometimes get me an extra warrior or settler or scout
3) I can see the lay of the land, so to speak, to be able to better tell which direction to grow

- I crank out some settlers quickly (relatively speaking) to establish at least three cities within 10 squars of each other. I then set my workers on automatic improvement so they will begin the road networks and upgrades on the land necessary to support my cities

- I usually try and get archers built fairly quickly as well for city defense against barbarians. The AI won't attack you for some time so your biggest threat is the barbarian gangs running around. If they manage to take a town of yours and they don't raze it, you can recapture it. (On this note, I usually set my custom game settings to "No City Razing". Yeah, yeah, it makes it easier, but so what?! )

- I have found that building walls, while they may go obsolete with gunpowder, in the beginning they are crucial against the barbarians in some cases.

- I try to plan my city growth later on so that I can pinch off cities of the AI that are close so that they will be cut off. I NEVER allow open borders. I don't want these yahoos traipsing all over my land. Because my borders are not open, I can potentially cut off a city of the AI and they will eventually rebel and join my glorious consortium due to my uber culture rating.

Hope these meager tips help!

 

You can eliminate frowny faces and green faces with certain buildings. Some technologies and buildings as well will eliminate those faces for good. I know for like the green sick face the Environmental tech with the Recycling Center building will ensure no green face.

For the frowny face there are certain buildings and technologies that eliminate certain conditions. Jails will give you a -25% against unhappy populace during wartime. The Theater, Coliseum, and maybe some others will lower population unhappiness.

Typically I build in this order (if no barbarians are lurking about):
- Settler
----> Once the pottery tech is done
- Granary
- Barracks (Walls first if barbarians start appearing)
- Archer
- Walls
----> By this time your tech should be at a level that allows better buildings for happiness or health and for better units.

 

wow, lots of good info thanks! I know I've seen Mani get on TS when he is playing civ, but where is everyone else? We need to unite!1!!!!

 

I pop on to see if anyone else will play, but nobody joins me and I cry.

 

You know what really pisses me off...... and I know units get a city defense bonus...... but when a group of archers kill my cannons I yell!11! And the ones that get beat are usually my best ranked men too

 

Yeah, cannons suck for defense because they don't get a defensive bonus, if I remember right.

Typically, I will select a unit to guard my city and give them the Garrison bonus (you get experience straight away if you have a barracks there when you build troops) and then entrench them by clicking on the shield emblem. This grants them like +25% defense every turn they are in that status up to 100%. That way they are pretty tough.

 

Oh, and by the way, last night I had a musket guys shoot down one of my Cobra Helicopters.

Guess it was Daniel Boone.

 

Aha! That is the beauty of this type game! NO LEVELING!

Get the game TB and when we start a new game, we are all bumbling about in loin cloth trying to pull together twigs and branches to protect us from the elements.

 

hmmm I wonder if I can trade in my City of Villains from EB Games for this game...

It shipped on October 25th and I haven't received it yet.

 

It's the basic roll of the die I am sure. I could see if maybe the guy was in a bell tower and is a crack shot like Sgt. Alvin York.

The cool thing is the added experience factor when your units survive engagements. You can customize what they are good at and make the units, if stacked, fairly complimentary.

 

I am going to fraps some Civ 4 action and post it up so people can see it.

 

lol omg in my game a message just popped up that said "Mani has been born in a far away land" save me mani! save mehhhh!111!