Last night, I sat down to just play a few minutes of Civilization Revolution while I was waiting for something to finish downloading on my computer. Three and a half hours later I was still sitting on my couch destroying enemy cities. I really like the Aztecs because their special ability is that there units heal after successful combat, meaning your units are always at full strength, unless they die or you order them to retreat. This is really strong because units normally don't heal in enemy territory.

The strategy of stacking a really strong defensive unit on top of a really strong offensive unit that I talked about in the podcast does work pretty well. I am not sure it is really a strategy or just something you learn to do as you play tougher difficulty levels. For example, Bombers and Artillery are both really strong offensively but incredibly weak defensively. You will need to stack a decent defensive unit army with each of those types of units. Modern Infantry are a good match with Artillery and Fighters are a good match with Bombers. In fact, I think that Bombers can only be attacked by Fighters, and only Fighters can defend Bombers (from other Fighters).

Domination seems like the hardest, at least most time consuming, type of victory to me because you have to amass a huge army and then once you have it, take out all the enemy palaces. Defending one big city is actually pretty easy and can be accomplished a variety of ways. One good way is to have a Bomber Wing (3 Bombers) waiting in your base. If anything gets close to you, you fly out your Bombers and destroy it before they actually reach your base. Their only counter to this would be to bring Fighters with them but that seems really unlikely, unless they already knew had a bunch of Bombers. You could also just turtle in your base with Modern Infantry Armies. If you decided to turtle, make sure you have a Spy Ring in your base or else enemy spies will sabotage your defenses. The only units strong enough to kill fortified Modern Infantry Armies are Bomber Wings and Artillery Armies.

For these reasons, it seems to me that the other types of victories are easier. You can just chill out in your base accumulating culture, science, or gold and wait for someone to attack you, which doesn't happen too often as long as you give in to the threats of the other leaders once in a while.