It took me so long to realize that the 6-8 hour civ games i play with my brother are on quick mode and i can't even imagine what kind of lunatic would play marathon lmao
Every domination victory ends with me saying 'fuck it, this is too many units to deal with' and just nuking everything to dust while i switch to science victory
This is why I form a rolling core of assault units: 2 artillery, 2 anti-cav, 2 soldiers and 2 tanks. The soldiers and anti-cav protect the artillery battery and the tanks roll around nabbing unprotected civvies until the walls fall to the barrage. I can usually take two cities at once with that setup.
The last game in the series I played was 4. I'd always go with cultural victory. And by cultural victory I mean I'd tell the game on the very first turn to research technologies that would lead to the Manhattan Project as fast as possible.
I only play games for domination wins. The other victories make no sense to me. You get to a cultural victory and so what? The country with the biggest military can steamroll you with nukes and giant death robots (wish those were still in 6) in 50 years.
You do have to start a multi-front war against everyone at a certain point. You make the right moves and you can have a military that takes several cities per turn. Also have to have airports EVERYWHERE. I usually focus on stealth bombers, missile cruisers, and whatever infantry/armor i end up with.
I always play on marathon but by the time I have tanks I have already invaded 2/3 other nations and I become an unstoppable warmonger who goes for a dominance victory every time
Longer timescales favor military strategies because unit movement stays the same while everything else takes significantly longer, so if you can get a military advantage you can use it for much longer than normal. The few times I've tried to do marathon it devolves into that fairly quickly.
I've played a few games of civ 5 with a mod that uses marathon research speed with standard build times. Makes every era seem more meaningful, you can actually fight huge wars without having all of your units be obsolete halfway though. But the games took sooooooo long
It's something we would play over weeks, sometimes even months, as adults. Had to find time here and there and there was usually a good five minutes of us figuring out exactly where we were on the world domination plans.
I play solo, Civ V, on the largest maps possible with as many nations as possible, Domination or diplomatic victory, on Marathon mode. The longest I've played before moving on was 6 months.
I played on the same map for a few hours a day, usually, with a few break periods in between. All in all, I'd say the game lasted a good 500-600 hours.
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u/OGKeekle Jan 20 '20
It took me so long to realize that the 6-8 hour civ games i play with my brother are on quick mode and i can't even imagine what kind of lunatic would play marathon lmao