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  1. Query regarding city growing limits
  2. Artillery Effectiveness?
  3. how to speed up production with gold?
  4. How intense of a Civ player are YOU?
  5. Trading Resources.
  6. Great Merchant Question
  7. Point of Lumbermills?
  8. When to Build?
  9. Military City...
  10. Building a City on top of a resource
  11. bad start, need tipps
  12. Tips for small nations?
  13. Religion
  14. Financial - overpowered, or overrated?
  15. Quick question about Theocracy
  16. Handicaps on emperor/immortal/deity levels?
  17. A couple of quick questions
  18. Can we check on existing deals while in diplomacy?
  19. Music
  20. Roads?
  21. Inflation
  22. City governor
  23. Increase Research Speed?
  24. Help: How Do I Fix this City Situation?
  25. Stupid question on state religion
  26. Destroying cities on islands
  27. workboats
  28. Dumb question about the UN
  29. Building same units
  30. Three city challenge/Noble = easy
  31. Culture Bomb Pictures
  32. Can't use marble
  33. Max Civs / Small Map: Strategies needed
  34. how the hell do i abandon one of my own cities????
  35. Barbarian behaviors... Also some UN facts...
  36. Specialist Citizens
  37. How to get a Great Prophet Faster?
  38. Spare resources= Gold Per Turn
  39. Connecting unit-required rescources on different continents
  40. First City build order?
  41. Automated/Manual workers?
  42. city display question
  43. Need help with Micromanagement
  44. Puppeteer's Noble Quick Tips
  45. Scouts, settlers, and other obselete units
  46. Are archers tough defenders?
  47. Counter to Swordsmen.
  48. Describe the "personality" of each leader/civ (when controlled by the computer).
  49. The big question: Workers first, or not?
  50. machine guns place in warfare
  51. Religious domination
  52. Digging for Gold
  53. LAnkou's Guide to chieftain...
  54. Foreign City just wont flip
  55. New player and questions
  56. War Alliances
  57. Balancing the Traits
  58. Defensive Bonus for Rivers?
  59. get other civs to have hard time growing
  60. Peaks Aren't Totally Useless
  61. How to play traits
  62. Early City Development - tutorial by a pro
  63. Specializing a city for science
  64. Deny Oil Strategy
  65. Does the mid-end gaem seem to go by to fast to you ?
  66. Early AI Archer #'s
  67. Culture Victory
  68. worker and merchantilism questions
  69. Research, war and peace.
  70. How to get a Settler in a boat
  71. Optimal city number (noble diff)
  72. A Tip On Town Defence
  73. How to select religion?
  74. Totally and utterly new to the series - help!
  75. Two questions...
  76. You think this si true, concerning Holy cities.
  77. How do I trade with other continents?
  78. Domination Strategy for Prince
  79. newb question: granaries
  80. new challenges
  81. Yes, you CAN access resources outside your city "cross"
  82. Alternates to worker-chop?
  83. Question on military upkeep and Vassalage
  84. Worker Chop - the (preliminary) Guide
  85. Spies constantly destroying my friend's only oil well every turn.
  86. What's your favorite trait?
  87. Planting Forests?
  88. Barbs and you on large and huge maps.
  89. City Specialization
  90. Overlapping city crosses
  91. Your missionary failed to convert...
  92. How do you use the U.N.?
  93. I just don't get it. Advice please?
  94. How to see automated movment
  95. opinions on this strat please
  96. The business of spies
  97. Cottage to Hamlet Message
  98. Tip for you obessive-compulsive micro-managers
  99. Losing my lead late in game?
  100. Condensed tips for beginners?
  101. What do I do with excess gold?
  102. Is granary much less useful?
  103. Lumbermills on the river worth keeping?
  104. Catapults bombard of units in cities?
  105. 1 City Challange - too hard w/o Colonies?
  106. Strategy Guide
  107. What would you do?
  108. Keep Your Catapults
  109. Key Early Steps for REX
  110. Delete, Upgrade, Ignore?
  111. Overcrowding
  112. Chinese UU not very useful
  113. Cottage or Farm?
  114. Why isn't this city growing?
  115. My Units Burn all the improvements in conquested cities :(
  116. Settlers can't enter ships?
  117. What are the best civ traits?
  118. Managing the food bar (a case study)
  119. Bombardment requirement?
  120. 'Your city must work to become a hamlet'
  121. Some thoughts on waging war
  122. 50 First Turns
  123. Coal plant/Nuclear plant/hydro plant ?
  124. Ironclads are useless !!!!!!
  125. beginner questions
  126. Swordsmen vs axemen
  127. Civics - need more info
  128. Civics - Need More Info
  129. Leaders, Traits, Technologies & Units
  130. Eras triggers
  131. Battles you have trouble stomaching
  132. Alone On The Island---canīt Make It. Advice Needed.
  133. Combat Strategy ??? Tips and Advice!
  134. When should I use specialists?
  135. #cottages per city: Anyone have rule of thumb?
  136. The Golden Age of GAs
  137. City Improvement maintenance cost
  138. Trade Routes Explained... please?
  139. Railroads
  140. Do different temples add up?
  141. Spies Are Clutch in Space Race
  142. Forest Expand?
  143. Duel terra map, 10 civs- colony rush!!!
  144. Inflation - How does it happen in Civ4
  145. Unit upgrading
  146. Stalemate or no?
  147. AI combats go by too quickly...
  148. Missionaries and Barbarians
  149. What is the use of Spirituality
  150. Learning the importance of Genocide!
  151. Post a screenshot of your best city!
  152. Promotion: general or specific?
  153. Persia for early start.
  154. Are the percentages cumulative?
  155. How does first strike work?
  156. Help with City Placement (pics included)
  157. Quick thought on Civ 4 strategy from a veteran
  158. several newbie Civ 4 questions
  159. Civ Newbie Question concerning "FLOW"
  160. Exploiting Promotions with Upgrades
  161. Loading Carriers
  162. Growing with Barbarians
  163. Starting new cities on a desert
  164. Terrain / Ressources / Improvements Refence Guide
  165. Gold per turn - Who knows the formula ?
  166. Managing your economny
  167. Any hints on research strategy?
  168. Custom Game map types?
  169. Get a grip
  170. 2 Questions (Trait Combo + Revolution)
  171. should i make it shorter?
  172. why is happiness so important?
  173. Monastaries after Scientific Method
  174. More Balancing - Trait halfprice buildings
  175. What C3/PTW/C3C strategies need to be unlearned in C4?
  176. AI Bonuses
  177. Promotions - March
  178. Pillaging?
  179. city specializations? how? where? when?
  180. In game map editor = safety valve
  181. Inconviniences of Founding a Religion
  182. Civics and how to use them
  183. Religion = Science Strategy
  184. Question about power and AI Difficulty level in custom games
  185. Highest SP Score
  186. No war weariness...
  187. Couple basic questions
  188. Your MP path to sucess?
  189. Discovering a religion just saved my.. umm flank.
  190. Holy Cities
  191. "Session X Starts" after Retiring
  192. China/Monarch, 1884, what to do... (save attached)
  193. Preping for war? Any tips?
  194. Stopping Civ Strat
  195. Guarding Against Spy Sabotage
  196. Space Race progress
  197. Help with City Specialization (with pictures)
  198. Proper Specialist micromanagement
  199. Tanks- The New Mobile Artillery
  200. How Many Hammers from Chopping?
  201. help w/ war
  202. Caste system as war time culture bomb
  203. free doubled base culture from buildings?
  204. Possibly a dumb question but... Multiple civics?
  205. The Math behind Quick, Normal, & Epic Speeds
  206. Novice's Difficulty Level
  207. Aircraft (and the phenomena of shooting it down)
  208. nt
  209. How many workers per town?
  210. Can I tell my Fighter to shoot down the AI's Fighter?
  211. Small cities, small armies, what am I doing wrong?
  212. Theater/Colosseum question
  213. Diplomacy is a Great Weapon.
  214. Peculiar facts
  215. City / Worker Management Woes (save attached)
  216. Let's See Who Knows What They're Doing
  217. Unit upkeep
  218. I am on Emperor and i am stuck. Plz Help.
  219. Wow holy city rocks
  220. How to Outresearch AI on Higher Levels (Monarch and Above)
  221. How do you get those little circles to show up?
  222. auto city management?
  223. stonehege: worth building or not?
  224. Getting my ass handed to me in Monarch
  225. Alone on an island
  226. Sdi.. ????
  227. Is ironworks broken?
  228. The noob question of the week.
  229. Your Thoughts On Wonders?
  230. possible to come back when falling behind in civ4?
  231. Early/Mid Game Expansion Problems
  232. Difficulty guide (what you need for moving up difficulties)
  233. Best Bonus to start with
  234. Upgrading does not make economic sense!
  235. Build Queues?
  236. Tech tree rushing? Which routes help you research faster?
  237. Disappearing fur
  238. Universal Suffrage as disruptor
  239. Global warming
  240. Watermill worth sacking a cottage or town for ?
  241. - current build overflow correction?
  242. If you found multiple religions
  243. roads?
  244. macemen vs. crossbowmen
  245. Playing without financial
  246. Question about war weariness
  247. How to wage early war w/o falling behind?
  248. Desperate Military Help
  249. Help with total military
  250. The "Jungle Exploit" (sort of)