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- From: goolsbey@cs.utexas.edu (Keith Goolsbey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: A Cool Strategy for Civilization
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:28:27 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- Keywords: Civilization, strategy, diplomat
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- Hey fellow Civilization players, here's a cool strategy I thought up:
-
- "The Diplomat Siege"
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- The computer is severely handicapped by not using diplomats more
- vigorously. The diplomat is the most powerful weapon in the game.
-
- With a small army of diplomats, you can surround a city from a
- civilization you are at peace with and take all their squares that
- produce resources out of production. Unless they are in despotism, they
- will automatically lose all the military units they are supporting
- because they lack the resource generation to maintain them. Thus, you
- can destroy large numbers of military units without firing a shot, and
- still stay at peace!
-
- This is an especially cheap method of warfare, because your diplomats do
- not require resources to support. Also, diplomats are the cheapest
- military unit you can build (other than militia).
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- With enough diplomats, you can starve the city down to a population of
- 1. If the home square does not provide enough food, you can starve it
- out of existence. If the home square does not create a resource, you
- can eliminate all defense in the city and walk right in.
-
- One variation you can do is build a new city right next to the city
- under siege. If you are a democracy and have your luxuries set high
- enough, the new city's population can rocket past that of the opponent's
- city via "We love the President" days. You can put the resource squares
- of your opponent into production for your new city, thus allowing you to
- move your diplomats on to siege the next city. This works especially
- well in "taking" an opponent's capital (the one city you can't subvert).
-
- Keith Goolsbey
- goolsbey@cs.utexas.edu
-