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- From: eam3@po.CWRU.Edu (Eric A. Meyer)
- Subject: Re: Civ: Frustration at King/Emperor Levels!!!!
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 18:00:52 GMT
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- In a previous article, jstevens@aaron.carleton.ca (Jonathan Stevenson) says:
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- >This is when the problem starts. Quite simply, I can't seem to get
- >rid of the last 5-10 cities belonging to the other civilization(s). I
- >make attack upon attack on their cities and it seems impossible! I
- >mean, I usually manage to land an amphibious assault team comprised of
- >about 4-6 knights and maybe 8 catapults (ferried across the oceans
- >with much expense, mind you !) only to have some idiotic cavalry unit
- >come along and attack say a stack of 4+ units and wipe them out? What
- >the f--- is going on?
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- Yeah, I had a Knight attack my eight fortified-in-the-mountains Cannon
- units and lost every one of them. Boy, did that torque me.
-
- >I welcome any suggests from you Civilization GURUs out there. I have
- >read articles from several persons claiming world conquests by 1 AD at
- >Emperor level. My simple question is: HOW?
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- I'd like to know as well. Somebody email the two of us, please?
- I've been doing fairly well with recent games (finally sorted out which
- government should be used when) but I don't come anywhere near global
- conquest, and certainly not by 1AD. (Usually come in a nice second.)
-
- -EMeyer
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- In mental and environmental change | Alumnus, Beta Nu of Theta Chi
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