Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Home-Field Advantage
Obviously, we all know that certain areas and civilizations possess more resources and technology than neighboring civilizations and areas, but what about the spacial and land availibility of certain areas. I was playing a scenario and I was Frederick leading a German Empire. At the beginning of the game, I was able to expand rather freely due to no neighboring and competing civilitions while civs that come into the game later and in between other empires are at an astounding disadvantage due to this fact. For example, in my little scenario, the weakest empires were the ones that entered the game later and were boxed in by other civs. These were the Romans and Alexander, Julias Caesar and the Greeks and Genghis Khan and the Mongolians. They were all blocked in by Cyrus, Hatsheput and myself. They were not able to expand and advance their empires, so I took them over as I looked to take advantage of these instances. My military was very advanced with tanks, marines and fighter jets while fighting against longbowman and other weaker warriors. This combined with the lack of natural resources and technology in those areas created much weaker empires than their neighbors.
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i totally agree with your point about having an advantage depending on your location. i also started one time with the german empire and found it very easy to expand because of the great land mass that europe is; also you can easily go into asia on foot if need be. i know this to be easier than other options due to my other time with a japanese empire. i had to build up my cities on the island of japan only and gain the technology needed to sail and explore the mainland of asia and other continents. the lack of expansion in the beginning put me at a disadvantage, i believe, for the rest of the scenario that i played.
Great point you bring up, the vast majority of battles and wars are won through technology. The more advanced a society and the better their technology and infastructure the more likely it is that they will win military conflicts. Like present times the United States is so dominat because of their technologies. Israel extents their authority over the arabs because of their advanced technologies
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