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  1. Run Away!
  2. Auspicious Start II - Qin Monarch
  3. Diplomacy Question
  4. CS Slingshot in MP Game - A Cautionary Tale
  5. Culture bomb?
  6. Avoid Growth Option, is it useless?
  7. Choices Choices (spot for 2nd city Q)
  8. I think the AI is cheating...
  9. Maximizing you score
  10. Third times a charm
  11. My most amazing Quechua Rush!
  12. Negative balances?????
  13. Preventing the backstab?
  14. AI reading history ?
  15. Help with game strategy
  16. Using Religions - Please Advise
  17. Speeding production?
  18. opening with tokugawa (monarch)?
  19. City Defense Varying?
  20. Green Eggs and Cottage Spam...
  21. I need extensive help in learning this game
  22. golden ages
  23. City Hygiene
  24. Destroyers vs Battleships
  25. Cottages are nice, but what about overall score related to population?
  26. How many hammers does hurrying provide for 1 citizen?
  27. defense
  28. Artillery promotionz
  29. Help with early game
  30. ALC Game #4 Pre-Game Show: Playing as Hatshepsut
  31. Another beg for advice on a Monarch game
  32. Stuck on Prince
  33. Early wars of opportunity?
  34. How is the power score calculated?
  35. National Wonders: what to do?
  36. Mid game Strategies
  37. Axemen
  38. How Not to be the Prom Queen
  39. Steal a worker
  40. CS Slingshot?
  41. Solution to overpopulation
  42. Isabella - The perfect cottage spammer?
  43. Finding more than one religion?
  44. Sequence of Events
  45. Globe Theatre Overpowered???
  46. ALC Game #4: Egypt/Hatshepsut
  47. Did s.o. already do a cost/benefit analysis on military units?
  48. Improving plain tiles
  49. A few questions
  50. Global warming
  51. Dual Specializing?
  52. Help me (Prince)
  53. Just got whipped on warlord... help?
  54. rally point help
  55. Noob strategy question: after Stonehenge
  56. Problems with barbs at monarch
  57. Combat Odds?
  58. Balancing civillian/military production
  59. Favorite Civic Means?
  60. Mid-Game Chemistry Option
  61. Noob Starting Maps/Opponents
  62. CS Slingshot (Monarch Level+) question
  63. Production city dilemma
  64. Activating Slavery
  65. Trading resources... trading "1 of 1" not give me use of the resource?
  66. Faster voctories?
  67. Killing upgraded RedCoats
  68. Tech Lead
  69. New Civer - Questions!
  70. Next move?
  71. Permanent Alliances !?
  72. Is slavery so useful?
  73. In the beginning...
  74. Found all Religion
  75. What are all the screens for?
  76. Game log
  77. The best unit in the game!
  78. Tiny Islands City Placement
  79. Specilization Cities
  80. My first (real) Civ4 game. Give me some advice!
  81. Conquest Pointers Needed
  82. Bare Essential Buildings for Domination/Conquest Victory
  83. City Specialisation - Please Comment
  84. How to deal with early unhappines on Noble?
  85. Can I mine this?
  86. CS Slingshot, is it worth it?
  87. What affects missionary odds?
  88. Quick question
  89. Imports/Exports
  90. Collateral damage depends on...?
  91. Resources
  92. Natural Warmongers
  93. Upgrading units
  94. Asking for advice
  95. 9 cities for cultural victory...or?
  96. if you build a city on a recource do you still get it
  97. pop rush?
  98. chopping during anarchy
  99. # of Cities
  100. Wonder race tie
  101. Does anyone use forts?
  102. Help me micro-manage better, please.
  103. Making Fortresses a viable strategy
  104. War academy?
  105. How diplomacy votes work?
  106. Advice on research please
  107. Question: leader's path?
  108. No money, no Conquests
  109. Game Anomaly?
  110. Help with moving up to Emperor
  111. Trading Alphabet After CS Slingshot
  112. No Copper - What's My Next Move?
  113. 2 Questions for the community
  114. City sites -- what difference?
  115. What should I do?
  116. ICBMs
  117. Catapults
  118. Lessons on Epics: Washington
  119. Combat odds ...
  120. OCC deity "culture win" question
  121. Ultimate Guide for FIrst Monarch Win
  122. Philosopher's CS Slingshot
  123. Two Questions
  124. Confused about choping. (and windmills)
  125. Well this is new
  126. Money Question
  127. Dead End Techs
  128. Food Tiles and Growth
  129. Pottery first?
  130. Need help with Monarch win
  131. Combat promotion
  132. Conquest
  133. City defense and bad habits
  134. What do you get at the start?
  135. which path to victory?
  136. Anyone here ever use Castles?
  137. Slavery Question
  138. elephant rush
  139. religion money bonus
  140. Possible use for Navies
  141. Call for Jungle Warfare strategy
  142. horse archers vs axmen
  143. All religions
  144. ALC Game #5 Pre-Game Show: playing as Victoria
  145. What Now? (monarch/egypt/continents)
  146. Residual effects of specialists?
  147. Whoooo Hoooo!
  148. Ironworks
  149. Slavery
  150. I feel so lost...
  151. City Producing Research vs Wealth
  152. Upkeep?
  153. Why AI's Attack
  154. Moving to Emperor
  155. Battle Mechanics - What is going on?
  156. Fighting Wars
  157. How many workers?
  158. ALC Game #5: England/Victoria
  159. Barbarians at the gate
  160. Industrial Civ Crash
  161. Leader Help: Isabella
  162. Later Game Slingshots?
  163. Spirtual vs. Financial
  164. What does Free Specialist mean?
  165. When things become obsolete?
  166. Early warrior rush anyone?
  167. Need some help
  168. Pre-War
  169. homeyg's attempt at Emperor
  170. help - production units
  171. Culture Percent Rate
  172. idea for thread a la ALC,lessons in epics
  173. How many turns does it take for another Civ to start "listening"?
  174. Trouble maps for Ghandi
  175. Having trouble with controls, any advice would be great!
  176. Not cottages
  177. Defense Pacts?
  178. Help required on invading a 1 land size island.
  179. building on resources
  180. Unit Promotions (aircraft)
  181. Knowledge
  182. How much bonus does the AI get at prince level with research?
  183. Allowing workers to automate improvements? Bad idea?
  184. Religion and no way to spread it to other islands
  185. Best Civs
  186. Blockades?
  187. Dealing with Peter
  188. Nationality
  189. catherine and the higher skill levels
  190. Help for a Civ3 Vet... I suck at Civ4
  191. My Dotmap
  192. shoreline
  193. being peacefull sucks
  194. Victory
  195. Mechanized Infantry
  196. Diplomacy & Civics & Converts
  197. How to choose city sites?
  198. What are your war strategies?
  199. Is there still hope?
  200. Can I conquer with India?
  201. Hard labour!
  202. emperor strategizing
  203. Need help with Prince game
  204. Conquering cities effectively?
  205. Monty gets a bad rap
  206. Diplomatic Victory?
  207. Crazy Cities ...
  208. Crazy Cities ...
  209. Asking an AI to change civic: Why??
  210. A few questions - thanks
  211. Good strategies for American Revolution
  212. OCC problems
  213. Specialists vs city growth
  214. Mali and (the lack of free) culture
  215. I still don't understand the benefits of chopping!
  216. Will chopping boost wealth, research, or culture?
  217. Trade offs
  218. The Best Leader Traits
  219. always build same unit option?
  220. What techs to research?
  221. Emperor Early-Mid game talk
  222. Desert War - Help!
  223. My First Marathon Game
  224. Strategies for "Unit Groups?"
  225. Tips for a Noble player
  226. How to pop goody huts on islands
  227. What do you do when
  228. UnDomination
  229. Maximizing building benefits
  230. What it posible to get from the huts.
  231. Tokugawa Domination Help
  232. Slavery?
  233. can somone plz help my units just turned into one big unit not the 3 or2 little ones
  234. Oracle Slingshot to Longbows - Rome
  235. wy units just turned into one big unit each but not 2 or 3 little ones
  236. Question
  237. Simple, Fast, Easy
  238. chop- and pop-rushing
  239. Creative for cultural, why?
  240. Modern Warfare
  241. Permanent alliance
  242. Best Civ Teams Combinations
  243. Begginer Needs Tricks on Connecting Cities
  244. The Emperor Masters' Challenge
  245. My first Noble Game...end game tips please!
  246. Asoka - Ashoka?
  247. Are Laboratories worth it?
  248. Watch me get beat
  249. How do you stop a strike?
  250. I'm so frustrated with this game