Anyway, I have been playing the DOS version since it's essentially the same as the Amiga version I'm used to.
I've been playing version 01, but then I upgraded to version 475.05. Now it's much harder to keep people content, and after a while even the first citizen in a city starts out as unhappy when playing on Emperor level. The Mongols built the Hanging Gardens one or two turns before I captured their capital. I can only imagine how frustrating it would have been to keep people content without i.
Anyhow the Chariot Blitzkrieg strategy proved extremely effective and playing on a large map by 660 BC I've wiped out all competetion except for the English. The English are on an another continent and London has City Walls. I guess I can either throw Chariots against it until I get lucky, siege it or use dipomats to sabotage the walls. The last tactic appeals most to me.
Or I can switch government to Democracy, develop my cities, and try to win the space race.
I've found using the early Blitzkrieg strategy is not that fun, and that you miss out on a hell of a lot of the things that make Civlization so great, mainly the joy of building up a large and advanced civlization that will eventually bring people to the stars. And if you choose to go the peaceful tech route you will eventually fall behind on Emperor level and be forced to use nukes to stop other civs from being too dominant.
It's a bit of a pity that on the hardest level the game rewards you for conquest, backstabbing, sabotage and nuklear war, instead of building a peaceful civilization that will stand the test of time.
I've been playing version 01, but then I upgraded to version 475.05. Now it's much harder to keep people content, and after a while even the first citizen in a city starts out as unhappy when playing on Emperor level. The Mongols built the Hanging Gardens one or two turns before I captured their capital. I can only imagine how frustrating it would have been to keep people content without i.
Anyhow the Chariot Blitzkrieg strategy proved extremely effective and playing on a large map by 660 BC I've wiped out all competetion except for the English. The English are on an another continent and London has City Walls. I guess I can either throw Chariots against it until I get lucky, siege it or use dipomats to sabotage the walls. The last tactic appeals most to me.
Or I can switch government to Democracy, develop my cities, and try to win the space race.
I've found using the early Blitzkrieg strategy is not that fun, and that you miss out on a hell of a lot of the things that make Civlization so great, mainly the joy of building up a large and advanced civlization that will eventually bring people to the stars. And if you choose to go the peaceful tech route you will eventually fall behind on Emperor level and be forced to use nukes to stop other civs from being too dominant.
It's a bit of a pity that on the hardest level the game rewards you for conquest, backstabbing, sabotage and nuklear war, instead of building a peaceful civilization that will stand the test of time.
