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Chapter Ten: Multiplayer Strategies Explore! Explore! Explore! One of the keys to any multiplayer strategy game, especially those with fog-of-war type properties, is exploration of the surrounding terrain. This element continues to hold true in Civilization: Call to Power. Effective exploration can reveal a great deal about your surroundings, not just the colorful terrain tiles. First, it can help you decide where to establish new cities, placing them on the most advantageous resource areas as well as protect by defending chokepoints. Exploration can also reveal the location of computer-controlled civilizations, letting you open trade and treaty negotiations, a must against a savvy human player. Should the time come where you need or want to mount an attack against your opponent, knowledge of his perimeter defenses or weakest spots will often be the key to victory. Finally, if you wish to have any hope of using unconventional tactics, such as the spy or the cleric, you must have a good idea where your enemy's weak points lie.
Though huge unit stack battles are quite common, it's probably the unconventional and sneaky tactics that will win you most multiplayer games. Theocracy can be a powerful multiplayer weapon; not only are your people extremely happy (one of the more difficult resources to keep afloat), but you also receive the cleric unit. Creating a new revenue stream out of a computer-controlled neighbor (or better, your human opponent) through city conversion should propel your tech research, vital to staying ahead in the multiplayer contest. If you believe your opponent could be up to similar tricks, use a spy unit to keep an eye on how he is progressing. Another weapon you're likely to see in just about every multiplayer contest is the nuke. Most players can't resist the most powerful weapon in the game; many will head straight for it up the technology tree. Should you worry about nukes? If you don't, rest assured your opponent probably will. With the Nanite Defuser wonder always a possibility (this wonder eliminates all nukes from the game), the amount of resources you push into nukes can be costly if this wonder should ever be developed. If you know the Nanite Defuser is almost completed (either by an enemy or yourself), prepare your nukes for launch. When blasting with nukes, always have an alternate assault ready. The cities hit will likely be extensively damaged, opening themselves up for capture.
Next: Cautious is smart and outwitting your opponents |
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