Post by Barack Obama on May 21, 2013 1:43:38 GMT -5
I just had the most awesome game on Civ5. It was basically a classical era version of WWII.
So my immediate neighbors are the Roman Empire and Greece. I, the Lamist Kingdom, am a peaceful nation focused on science so I'm just building libraries and and aqueducts and shit when all of a sudden Greece declares war on me because I settled in lands they wanted. Now, all of my production was focused on infrastructure projects and the only military units I have are a pair of archers at the edge of my country to watch for invading barbarians so I had the weaken military by far out of us 3. I didn't expect Greece to attack cuz we'd been at peace for so long. I immediately converted all production to military units, sacrificed food production for military production, and switched my researching to military sciences. The Lamist Kingdom was in a state of total war. But that shit takes a while to get results. Meanwhile, Greece, the dominant military power in the game thus far pushes though my forces and captures all my cities except my capitol and the city right next to it. They try for a while to take my capitol, but I'm somehow managing to fight them to a stalemate thanks a few of my home territory bonuses.
And then my superior scientific infrastructure comes through. I've been able to develop advanced weaponry (cannons, rifles). This was during an era where the most powerful military used crossbowmen, swordsmen, and catapults. After so many turns of fighting off this siege, I begin to push back and I pushed back with a vengeance. Eventually, I am able to push back the Greek forces and retake all of my cities back. By this point, I'm arguably the most powerful country in the game. I'm outnumbered by the Greeks, but my technology is superior. After fighting the Greeks out of my country, I begin to invade mighty Greece itself because I'm so annoyed at having to suspend my usual infrastructure building for this. My forces enter Greek land and start pillaging its farmlands and pastures. This is when Greece decides to negotiate peace. They offer me gold and resources in exchange for a peace treaty which bars either nation from attacking the other for a set number of turns. Battle weary and wanting to refocus on domestic building projects, I accept. However, I do not forget what they did.
A few turns before the treaty expires, Greece and Rome go to war over territory, but it's not really my problem. Even after the peace treaty expires, I go about my business. Rome is putting up a good fight, but after a while, loses its first city, and then soon after, another falls to Greece. At this point, it's clear the Roman capitol city of Rome would eventually fall and Greece would control 4/5ths of the continent we were on. Rome decides to ask for my help in their war efforts. They want me to invade Greece from the east, which is where I was positioned, while they continue to fight in the west so the Greek forces could be spread more thinly so they have an easier time. I tell them to give me 10 turns to prepare, during which I built up my military forces in secret using my now even more advanced technology. When the time comes, I begin my massive land and sea invasion of Greece. Armed with artillery, gatlings guns, and industrial era infantry, I had entered a war being fought with cannons, knights, and riflemen. As I began my push towards the Greek capitol of Athens, I dispatched a few ships and units to the western front to aid the Roman forces and liberate the conquered Roman cities.
One by one, Greek cities on the long path to Athens fell to Lamist rule. I was now the undisputed military superpower on this continent. On both fronts, the Greeks were losing ground. Greek cities in the east were being captured, Greek controlled Roman cities were being liberated. Eventually, Lamist forces arrived at Athens, which despite my superior military, was still a bitch to try to take because it was built on a hill behind a river. The home territory bonuses the Greeks had didn't make things easier. I decided to go and pillage the surrounding land and resources around Athens to weaken production of new defenses. While the Romans were still fighting Greek forces on the way to Athens, they sent a large chunk of their navy to the beaches of Athens and fired upon the city and the troops defending it. At last, my forces were able to seize the Greek capitol.
This was when Greece decided to negotiate peace again. In exchange for the return of their capitol and a peace treaty, they offered half their gold reserves, access to their resources, and free passage through their borders. I reject their offer and counter with a simple peace treaty. Nothing more, nothing less. They accept and so I make peace with the greatly diminished nation of Greece, who is still at war with the Romans. I decide to speed up the war by sending money and troops to Rome to finish off Greece, which they eventually did. Approximately 2/3rds of former Greece was now under the domain of the Lamist Kingdom while the remaining 1/3rd was under Roman control. Greece was reduced to a single city before peace was made between the Romans and the Greeks.
The moral of the story is if you attack the Lamist Kingdom, you will be wiped out in 100 years.
So my immediate neighbors are the Roman Empire and Greece. I, the Lamist Kingdom, am a peaceful nation focused on science so I'm just building libraries and and aqueducts and shit when all of a sudden Greece declares war on me because I settled in lands they wanted. Now, all of my production was focused on infrastructure projects and the only military units I have are a pair of archers at the edge of my country to watch for invading barbarians so I had the weaken military by far out of us 3. I didn't expect Greece to attack cuz we'd been at peace for so long. I immediately converted all production to military units, sacrificed food production for military production, and switched my researching to military sciences. The Lamist Kingdom was in a state of total war. But that shit takes a while to get results. Meanwhile, Greece, the dominant military power in the game thus far pushes though my forces and captures all my cities except my capitol and the city right next to it. They try for a while to take my capitol, but I'm somehow managing to fight them to a stalemate thanks a few of my home territory bonuses.
And then my superior scientific infrastructure comes through. I've been able to develop advanced weaponry (cannons, rifles). This was during an era where the most powerful military used crossbowmen, swordsmen, and catapults. After so many turns of fighting off this siege, I begin to push back and I pushed back with a vengeance. Eventually, I am able to push back the Greek forces and retake all of my cities back. By this point, I'm arguably the most powerful country in the game. I'm outnumbered by the Greeks, but my technology is superior. After fighting the Greeks out of my country, I begin to invade mighty Greece itself because I'm so annoyed at having to suspend my usual infrastructure building for this. My forces enter Greek land and start pillaging its farmlands and pastures. This is when Greece decides to negotiate peace. They offer me gold and resources in exchange for a peace treaty which bars either nation from attacking the other for a set number of turns. Battle weary and wanting to refocus on domestic building projects, I accept. However, I do not forget what they did.
A few turns before the treaty expires, Greece and Rome go to war over territory, but it's not really my problem. Even after the peace treaty expires, I go about my business. Rome is putting up a good fight, but after a while, loses its first city, and then soon after, another falls to Greece. At this point, it's clear the Roman capitol city of Rome would eventually fall and Greece would control 4/5ths of the continent we were on. Rome decides to ask for my help in their war efforts. They want me to invade Greece from the east, which is where I was positioned, while they continue to fight in the west so the Greek forces could be spread more thinly so they have an easier time. I tell them to give me 10 turns to prepare, during which I built up my military forces in secret using my now even more advanced technology. When the time comes, I begin my massive land and sea invasion of Greece. Armed with artillery, gatlings guns, and industrial era infantry, I had entered a war being fought with cannons, knights, and riflemen. As I began my push towards the Greek capitol of Athens, I dispatched a few ships and units to the western front to aid the Roman forces and liberate the conquered Roman cities.
One by one, Greek cities on the long path to Athens fell to Lamist rule. I was now the undisputed military superpower on this continent. On both fronts, the Greeks were losing ground. Greek cities in the east were being captured, Greek controlled Roman cities were being liberated. Eventually, Lamist forces arrived at Athens, which despite my superior military, was still a bitch to try to take because it was built on a hill behind a river. The home territory bonuses the Greeks had didn't make things easier. I decided to go and pillage the surrounding land and resources around Athens to weaken production of new defenses. While the Romans were still fighting Greek forces on the way to Athens, they sent a large chunk of their navy to the beaches of Athens and fired upon the city and the troops defending it. At last, my forces were able to seize the Greek capitol.
This was when Greece decided to negotiate peace again. In exchange for the return of their capitol and a peace treaty, they offered half their gold reserves, access to their resources, and free passage through their borders. I reject their offer and counter with a simple peace treaty. Nothing more, nothing less. They accept and so I make peace with the greatly diminished nation of Greece, who is still at war with the Romans. I decide to speed up the war by sending money and troops to Rome to finish off Greece, which they eventually did. Approximately 2/3rds of former Greece was now under the domain of the Lamist Kingdom while the remaining 1/3rd was under Roman control. Greece was reduced to a single city before peace was made between the Romans and the Greeks.
The moral of the story is if you attack the Lamist Kingdom, you will be wiped out in 100 years.