Suicidal Gigantic Effort Yah!

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Well i normally play this game in Challenging or Tough.. i likes to win.

However, for the fun of it i started a Suicidal Game just to see how hard it really is.

In my first try i ended up next to the Drengin who proceeded to build a gigantic military (along with every other race apart from myself who was struggling to pay off my new colonies) and continually demanded me to pay to stay alive. I tried to be cleaver and use influence star bases to gain a wee advantage but this only made them hostile. Anyway long story short. They decleared war, along with 2 other civs within 2 turns.. (go figure??) and i was anihilated. End of THAT game. -_-

Anyway i decided to try again. This time round i used a map with rare planets and a tight star configuration, which meant every race only had there home worlds to live on. Soo..  Influence starbase time!! After taking over the arceans i managed to start catching up to the other races in research and military buy doin some cleaver tech trading, especially with the minor races. Coupling this with paying off the two strongest militarys to spend there effort on each other, i managed to get into third place, and then first once one of these races got destroyed and i managed to influence absorb another. It took me a few years but i eventually managed to invade a few other races and use influence on others. Was quite fun and ended up with 39000 points (which im sure is pretty crap compared to others).

Not too sure how you could win a suicidal game on a universe with abundant habitible planets. Any hints or ideas?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Well winning any map on suicidal usally takes a effort and a half to do so, because if I remember right then the AIs get huge starting bonuses... and no matter what you do then they will explore faster and more then you.

My prefered way of doing it is by using drath and asap get other races warring while I get some % of their income used towards military in my own income...

 

I am guessing it depends on what race is your favorite, but my advice is: 1) Get other races to war each other by bribing or giving cash for korath or dregin to war each other and some other races... 2) use freighters to get the most hostile races towards neutral until you can crush them. 3) Use that one point in creative - since it can help you alot if you are lucky :)

 

What is your prefered race?

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Getting the SCC as early as possible is the key. That along with psonic beams, cargo hulls and diplomacy and you can have every planet in the galaxy within year 1.

 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Well, i usually make a custom race and pick the skills i like.

I have played the Humans and the Dregin before but i mostly customise and call them stupid copyright names like Species 8472, Psylons etc

I normally lean towards research, breeding, social and military production and i grab creativity.

Havent used the Drath war profiteering before.. nice idea.

I normally get Ion drive as fast as possible to make my colony ships move twice as fast. But i just cant keep up with there expansion at the start of the game.

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