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I love these games too... although Civ can be a little slow at times and really aggravtaing when all you wanna do is become communist and they keep going into anarchy...

I love age of empires mainly for the trebuchets because they are so cool! It's a lot like..er... what's that called... Crap, I forgot, but it'll come to me... Do you guys play these too?

I've got Civilization 2 on my Playstation. It's incredibly slow once you get up to larger civilizations. It gets to be literally half an hour between turns - gah! But on the positive side, it's amazingly amazing. Never played Age of Empires though...

TLF,

I love Age of Empires! Actually a newer version was put out a year or two ago and was called Age of Conquerors (Age of Mythology was also released but IMHO it's a wholly different game). I'm 34 years old and I play this game with friends on a LAN every Tuesday night (My wife is a saint that she puts up with me!). I love the mix of strategy and action. I fancy myself a pretty formidable player and I'll play anyone who wants to play online at the MSN Zone. Just PM me if anyone is interested.

My experiences with AoE online are rather mixed. You need a faster connection than my 56k otherwise it can be frustrating. It is a rather fun game though. I'm not sure that they make AoE for my Apple.

I've always liked Civ. I like mulling over strategy. When I'm in the mood, I can play a Civ game over the course of 3-4 days, including a couple of 4am marathons. AoE is played more on the fly.

My internet is way too slow to play in anyway other than a LAN with other people... but as soon as I get faster internet you better watch yourself Brinn!

In civ3 I'm always the chinese...

In AoE I think the elephants are a bit cheating... but it comes with the civ I guess, but I like the infantry civs better.

i owned age of empires 2... it was ok, but to me it was very reminisent of a suped up version of warcraft 2(obviously without all those weird creatures)...A good game, but nothing special... of course your opinions appear to differ...

I've never played warcraft... what's it like?

an unsupeed up, earlier version of age of empires...but with orcs!

Ooooh orcs!

I love these games! I had Age of Empires two! AMAZING! These type of games are my favourite!

I got Civ3 a week ago - it's the first time I've tred a game ofthis type. It does get a little infuriating haing to move every one of your troops one at a time...... But I finally won one game, the other day (but only because I didn't start any wars for once )

are you sure you cant mass select units?

I usually either disband units or fortify them in cities if I'm not using them. Saves all that fiddly messing around every turn.

Rise of Nations beats them all. Bloody great game!

Never heard of it... Or I have but cannot remember... what's it like?

I'm Getting Civilation 4 and Age of Empires 3 for christmas.

I got civ4 the day it was released, but I've only atually played one game. Due to the 3d nature of it, it runs very slowly, and seems to make the game drag. I'd have preferred to have civ3 graphics with civ4 game mechanics, that way it would be playable on lower end machines. Civ has never been about graphics, so why did they decide it would be now?

CovenantJr wrote:I've got Civilization 2 on my Playstation. It's incredibly slow once you get up to larger civilizations. It gets to be literally half an hour between turns - gah! But on the positive side, it's amazingly amazing. Never played Age of Empires though...

If you've got a playstation 2, I'll send it to you.

I've just started playing Civ 3 on my PC. Never played this type of game before. I suck. I tied being agressive and got my butt kicked. I tried being a learned pasifist and am at the bottom of the heap at 1000 AD.

Gimme hints and strategy points!

Different for everybody. My usual strategy was not to expand too fast in the beginning. Choose a defensive position, like across a narrow bottleneck, and build up 2 or 3 cities 'til they're pretty strong, and have a reasonably powerful (for the time) technology.

In the meanwhile, fortify that bottleneck, and encamp a few units there to hold off whatever comes along, and irrigate or mine everything around your cities for cash and population growth. Once you've got the money and tech to build strong units, expand slowly.

--A