My Taste in C-III

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Since I'm on the subject I'll describe my 'taste' in C-III: At the beginning of the game I always specify 'accelerated production.' This makes for a faster game. I also specify that the game can be won only with a military victory. This eliminates other less interesting ways of winning the game. Nowadays I opt for a world of normal size, 5 billion years old, with barbarians who are 'sedentary.' Lastly, I opt for the 'Archipelago' version of world, because I like to keep land masses minimized (less cities to manage and I like lots of naval action). C-III creates a new world every time you begin a new game, so you never know what you are going to get outside of those parameters. You discover your new world only slowly as you explore it, and as you pay other civilizations good money for their maps - or force them to give you those maps as a condition for ending a war against them.

It takes me about a week to get through one game (40+ hours of playing time). I always play Caesar of the Romans. There are many other 'nations' to play against and you are given the choice of whether to specify certain nations or take pot luck. I always specify the French, English, and Russians (boom), because I like the 'European Music' which plays whenever there is a 'conference' with the head of state after the Middle Ages. The Germans also qualify music-wise but the stomping above me becomes intolerable when I am attacking the Germans. It's bad enough with the Russians.

My favorite opponent is France. I love to 'negotiate' with Joan of Arc. Sometimes I sit here and listen to the music for several minutes as I watch her batting her eyelashes at me. I love it. In the current game I have 'been forced' to destroy the French and the Russians. Only the English remain to conjur up the magic music.