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  1. Culture Victory - Need Some Pointers
  2. Non-symmetric trade
  3. Lots of Questions
  4. Advice on playing Hammurabi?
  5. hello
  6. Help me get rid of Gilgamesh?
  7. do workers cost upkeep money like troops do
  8. rules question
  9. Trying to Get Better
  10. The Best Random Event You've gotten
  11. Warring in Emperor
  12. Bulbing GP
  13. Hmm....domination is hard
  14. My Favorite Cheating Strategy (Prince)
  15. Lincoln's Birthday
  16. Help/Question - A world full of Buddhists
  17. Where would you place my next city?
  18. Civs that Give You Fits
  19. Really strange start
  20. Working espionage into a regular game more
  21. New Player: Early-Mid Game Decline
  22. spring-cleaning
  23. Raze or Keep
  24. Help me regarding Swords...
  25. apostolic palace suckiness
  26. Leaders religious preference
  27. Specialists
  28. My first real game...
  29. A Game with Roosevelt, a Veritable Powerhouse
  30. Your Best AI Stupidity Story
  31. Notes on scoring
  32. Inactive commerce city
  33. Collateral damage! :D
  34. What makes Monty special?
  35. Extreme early war
  36. Make Me a FASTER Civ Player
  37. Boats = safe houses for your spies
  38. More fun with Ramesses
  39. Lonely start -- need advice
  40. City has 13 sickness, overpopulation
  41. Anyone know of any specialist management mods?
  42. Isolated start on prince-city placement-help
  43. a question about vassel
  44. Best way to spread state religion?
  45. Question about combat explain
  46. Overcoming industrious addiction
  47. Chariots, The Perfect Medic
  48. Nasty Early Maces
  49. Purely Theory, the Gold Economy/Strategy?
  50. Your best war strategy or diplomatic
  51. Late game SE or economic transition?
  52. I've got a Fat Cross question
  53. The Semi-Isolated Contact Start
  54. How to compose an army?
  55. BtS Deity/Raging/Advanced Start too easy
  56. AP Stinks and Is Unrealistic
  57. How am I doing? (early monarch game)
  58. How not to draw the short straw all the time? (Ultimate noob guide!)
  59. Lonely Hearts Club, BTS Edition, Chapter XIII: Gandhi
  60. RPC: The Restless King
  61. OCC: SE or CE?
  62. Noob War
  63. Cheap Tactics that (Almost) Always Work
  64. War or Peace?
  65. Role Play Challenge: Tokugawa the Isolationist
  66. Ideal build order for early rush?
  67. First win on Noble
  68. Expansive question
  69. What is the best early plunderer?
  70. How important is the score?
  71. Almost there; leveraging protective
  72. NEVER Build Walls!
  73. Beelining strategy
  74. Best things to build...
  75. AI Liz vs AI HC
  76. Globe Theater in Capital.
  77. What happens when Big Crosses overlap?
  78. Siege engine promotions
  79. Win as quick as possible?
  80. please tell me my mistakes in my first monarch game
  81. SE & City Specialization
  82. Noble-level warmongering: Julius Caesar
  83. Best post-gunpowder UU?
  84. Desperation Strategies
  85. General Military Planning
  86. Going commando
  87. Question about always peace and always war?
  88. The matter of Economics
  89. Leaders for learning warmongering
  90. Adapting on a crappy start (Druidravi´s first random emperor start)
  91. Modern war - AI cowers from large stacks
  92. Early game English economy
  93. Could someone look over my game and give me some tips?
  94. Post Game Analysis Requested (Emperor - Sitting Bull)
  95. Infuriating Immortal
  96. Early warmongering?
  97. Samurai Promotions
  98. Surviving the early game
  99. War vassals
  100. Moving settler in beginning
  101. Barb events
  102. why did this happen??
  103. A Challenge: Deity OCC with no Military
  104. Kmad the pirate
  105. culture win
  106. Immortal Game Report: The Code of Hammurabi
  107. Stupid organization question.
  108. How to Specialize Cities
  109. City defences
  110. Using colonies to fuel a diplomatic victory
  111. Choosing your triangle...
  112. Raging Barbarians
  113. Augustus - the forbidden combination?
  114. Some beginner questions about the early game
  115. Winning at Immortal+: Accepted Tactics or Exploits?
  116. Looking for Advice: Culture Victory
  117. Warmongering is Skill
  118. Best Civ?
  119. Role Play Challenge: Alexander, Greek God of War
  120. Sometimes I just don't understand this game
  121. Kyoto wants to join the Japanese
  122. Perfectionist
  123. tuffest ais
  124. My most difficult start is two-on-a-landmass
  125. Making the best of rubbish capital sites
  126. no iron/copper/horse in an online-game
  127. Im Boxed in
  128. How to declare War on capitulated Vassals
  129. Difference between game speeds?
  130. Culture Flipping
  131. Economy vs AI on prince mode
  132. official retraction
  133. The Native American early rush!
  134. OCC's are so different from normal games
  135. Monument gives +2 culture?!
  136. Reoccuring Monarch issues
  137. Golden Age Articles?
  138. AI Suggestion for Settling - what am I missing?
  139. Immortal Montezuma Feedback Requested
  140. Question about Leadership Promotion
  141. Religion on a continents/hemispheres map
  142. Top 10 Unrestricted Leaders/Civilizations?
  143. Role Play Challenge: Alexander, Greek God of War II
  144. Privateers, best use of?
  145. OCC - which 5 National Wonders?
  146. Who is my next victim?
  147. Question about Strategy Layer
  148. I had a question about bribing.
  149. Help getting started
  150. Question about barbs and notification
  151. very confusing info for a beginner
  152. bypassing techs
  153. Help finding Help
  154. A Comparison: Early vs Late Worker
  155. Various civ 4 things I'm unclear on
  156. AI's and Privateers
  157. Is it necessary to improve every tile?
  158. Help with space shuttle launch
  159. Does razing make the game too easy?
  160. Total newb questions
  161. Where will my SoD get bumped to?
  162. How to specialize this super-city?
  163. Timing growth with production
  164. Religious brothers...
  165. Quality or Quantity?
  166. The Midgame (please critique)
  167. CE, City Specialization, and Growth, Oh My!
  168. <sigh> I need help...
  169. Environmentalism?
  170. best way to post or link a game?
  171. any advice on this saved game?
  172. How does barbarian city spawning work?
  173. what AI to you least want as a neighbor?
  174. craving culture victory
  175. barracks
  176. Sight Lines
  177. Capitulate or destroy?
  178. The beauty of horse archers
  179. Where to settle?
  180. Which Ai do you want as neibhour
  181. I always want to fill my cities with the most things!
  182. what's the best (in general) american beeline
  183. Some pics for GP farms, etc, please?
  184. New Game Thread Idea
  185. Noble Tips?
  186. Regrowing Forests
  187. Archery
  188. First Game
  189. Barbs post 3.13
  190. Diplomatic advice please!
  191. Advice on game
  192. coastal grids
  193. Why should I build colosseums?
  194. Scenarios
  195. Please critique my save game
  196. Religon and where its founded
  197. Oil or uranium
  198. Defensive Settling
  199. Quick question about wonders
  200. WTF Napoleon???
  201. Lonely Hearts Club, BTS Edition, Chapter XIV: Gilgamesh
  202. bypassing religion
  203. Monarch War Weariness -- OUCH!!
  204. Another game to critique: Monarch
  205. Late-Game SE City Examples
  206. WTF is wrong with this game?
  207. How to provoke an AI to declare war on you?
  208. Warlord Game - Please Critique
  209. (ab)use of the starvation
  210. Role Play Challenge: Alexander Greek God of War III
  211. Please assist: conquest instead of domination
  212. Can you win this game?
  213. Can someone explain this for me?
  214. Rate my dot map!
  215. My first ever Noble victory! Thank you civfanatics!!
  216. Roleplaying Challenge: The Catfight
  217. WE/SSE vs Lightbulbing SE
  218. Prince and AI cheating
  219. Trying monarch
  220. Pillage Economy
  221. Slavery and draft
  222. Playing Monarch as Qin Shi Huang for Cultural win
  223. Production/Science Milestones
  224. Few Questions
  225. Question about plains and desert cities
  226. We just don't like you enough!
  227. Always feel overwhelmed at the start
  228. Check this please
  229. betrayed by my colonized vassal?
  230. Island and resources
  231. I love faux-isolated starts.
  232. BtS Technology Eras?
  233. Diplomacy Advice
  234. Setting the pace, controlling the enemy
  235. Custom Game or Play Now?
  236. How do you do workers?
  237. FIRST warring win!!!!
  238. Civics
  239. City Raider for Swords or Drill for all Melee units?
  240. OK, I got all 7 religions, now what?
  241. Agressive stance on prince and up
  242. Paradigm Shift
  243. Races
  244. What AIs switch to Free Religion?
  245. An Old Civ come back to Haunt You
  246. Passive Leaderheads/ Aggressive Leaderheads
  247. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
  248. How to specialize your cities to grow your civ
  249. How can I win this game?
  250. Upgrade or Disband?