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  1. Amphibious Elephants for real!
  2. Axemen/praetorians/nukes and city placement
  3. Help with Dotmap
  4. Ideal food surplus for early city growth (CE)
  5. Multiple Questions on a Long Game (very long post)
  6. The Religious Peace is Suffocating my Civ!
  7. The monster city challenge!
  8. One city challenge
  9. Plans
  10. How does the AI fight?
  11. Where should I REX?
  12. Higher Rating / Ranking
  13. Using Great People in the Late Game?
  14. What are the odds?
  15. [HELP]Culture Flipping a City
  16. Argh, why don't I build more units?
  17. Why do I always lose at the end??????
  18. [HELP]To Rush or Not To Rush
  19. The Commando Promotion
  20. How does trade work?
  21. Help Finish My Dotmap!
  22. Deity warring seems impossible...
  23. In Love with Strategy Layer
  24. Help! I'm scared to place cities!
  25. Industrial + Space Race
  26. Spies (Warlords)
  27. Avoiding a culture loss... advice please
  28. Total beginner to the series - please help me!
  29. What to do when there is nothing to do ?
  30. Zulu Strat: Stockpile Impi?
  31. Would someone like to finish my games?
  32. Mr. Fisher and Emperor
  33. Beginner's Guide to Diplomacy?
  34. Did the ai smarten up?
  35. V-ass-al.. tehehe!!!!
  36. A Skirmisher Rush...
  37. Nobles Club XI - Catherine!
  38. FORMULA of CAPITULATE ...
  39. Some help for my current game (Emperor).
  40. Building National Wonders Faster
  41. Tile infrastructure help~!!!
  42. How Far Along Is Normal?
  43. The ultimate challenge, deity part1
  44. Noble noob looking to incorporate
  45. Wierd start???
  46. Mistakes you make often
  47. Defensive wars
  48. Guns or Butter.
  49. When is it best to stop slaving and build up population instead?
  50. Role Play Challenge: "Will the Real Suryavarman Please Stand Up?"
  51. Strategy guide to cultural victory?
  52. Very Weird thing happened after i invaded a city.
  53. Grenadiers in BtS
  54. Are buildings destroyed when you take a city?
  55. (BTS) All opponents suddenly declare war on me
  56. The Blockade
  57. Noble : Victoria : Hemi's
  58. Animal and Barbarian spawn rates
  59. AI Filling Cultural Holes in Useless Spots
  60. Mercantilism is terrible?
  61. ECONOMY(s)
  62. Great Scientist - Settle in one place or build lots of academies?
  63. Suggestion: Economies showcase
  64. Afterworld Scenario Beyond the Sword
  65. Poor Starting Position?
  66. When you've hooked the wrong mark
  67. On my way to my first culture victory on Noble
  68. Expanding the Ethiopian Empire
  69. Lonely Hearts Club, BtS Edition, Chapter XXVI : Cyrus
  70. Machine Guns or Infantry for stack defense?
  71. Mr. Fisher and Emperor, take 2
  72. New at Immortal, need help with diplomacy.
  73. City Specialisation
  74. Me, you and monarch!
  75. Domestic Advisor Screen question
  76. Science/Commerce Cities
  77. Difficult Start
  78. War question
  79. Culture battle for land - tips needed please
  80. Vassals and tribute
  81. Route from Noble to Prince is rocky, what am I doing wrong?
  82. Windmills or Mines
  83. Early-Mid-Game Transition
  84. Spoilers, obsolete ?
  85. Question about resources
  86. Cultural Victory Question
  87. The Roman Empire
  88. How Do you get a STUPID Great Prophet!
  89. State Religion?
  90. We yearn to join our barbarian motherland!
  91. Which prerequisite bonuses are worth it, and when?
  92. Are there any tricks for coaxing a rival shrine?
  93. Cataphract Promos
  94. How fast can you do it?
  95. City Specialization
  96. Coastal Starts & Barb Galley's in BtS 3.17
  97. Choosing an economy model
  98. the space race on emperor and up
  99. Is there a way to tell the starting options from a save?
  100. No diplomatic victory with the UN????
  101. Chance to Discover Hill-Treasure
  102. Strategic resources and the early game
  103. Overlap - good tiles or bad tiles?
  104. Quests - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
  105. Fallin' behind in research...
  106. About 3500 points
  107. Rumble in the jungle! Crazy monty RPC.
  108. Role Playing Challenge: "The Full Monty"
  109. Attaching Great Generals to units
  110. Island economy
  111. How To Get To Noble?
  112. Discussion on what makes levels easier
  113. Grr, stop declaring war on me!-- help with diplomacy?
  114. Lovefest?!
  115. hammer overflow, exploit or a perk of protective?
  116. Great start, but i'm stuck nevertheless
  117. Quests - your 10 good and 10 bad ones
  118. Ottomans v Mongols?
  119. Strategies Need From 1AD through Endgame
  120. Do you throw in the towel?
  121. Does anyone move the palace?
  122. Monarchist Cookbook Game IV, Mao Zedong of China!
  123. Expansion
  124. A crazy goal list for a settler 18 civs Earth Scenario Game.
  125. How would you start this?
  126. Situation Analysis
  127. The ultimate challenge deity part II, Liz
  128. Bulbing with GS and GP
  129. Turn on/off
  130. Help: OMEN Scenario from Warlords
  131. What keeps you interested?
  132. Confusion with Universal Sufferage.
  133. How to assign plots to a city.
  134. Mounted units weak in BTS?
  135. What's the Half-way Point of a Game?
  136. Help: Prince and Pangeaa
  137. Isolated start as Maya
  138. Everybody is always angry at me
  139. The AI's most critical war flaw: The " Take this City trap "
  140. Bulb List
  141. Suggestions?
  142. Great generals without war.
  143. Circumnavigating the world
  144. Tech trading with weaker AI's
  145. SE help
  146. deciding when to go to war
  147. when to use cuirassiers???
  148. Intercontinental Invasion
  149. Technology Trading Off - A Problem for Higher Difficulties?
  150. Not war
  151. Role Play Challenge: Elizabeth and the Balance of Power!
  152. Me, you and Monarch Part II
  153. Beijing 2008 scenario: Anyone interested?
  154. How to best make use of a huge food-surplus capital?
  155. The Extra Mod 40 civ challenge!
  156. First building in a newly-captured city
  157. The majesty of a mushroom cloud...
  158. Does anyone DoW as soon as they meet?
  159. Tile improvements
  160. Why wasn't I a candidate for secretary general?
  161. Warlord Difficulty - New Player
  162. Question abou the Great Library
  163. Cities, cities and more cities
  164. Techs you deliberately ignore
  165. late game issues in Noble
  166. SGTOM competition starting up!
  167. AI connecting resources before techs?
  168. What techs are best for trading?
  169. First Game
  170. Pre Ultimate deity challenge partIII, some questions
  171. I <3 Elizabeth :)
  172. Leveraging Vassalage - Tokugawa and Pacifism II (Fractal, Emperor, Normal)
  173. Getting giant neighbors to work for you, warwise
  174. Questions about Corporations
  175. Food poor/commerce rich start
  176. Lonely Hearts Club, BtS Edition, Chapter XXVII : Justinian
  177. Army Management?
  178. Back to Vanilla
  179. Seafood/lighthouse openings
  180. DMOC's DEITY Game #1 - Gandhi
  181. bugged imperialistic in teams?
  182. First game(not quite)
  183. After much deliberation I've finally figured out how to know when to slave
  184. Monarch and optimization!
  185. Selling excess resources in BTS: Exploit or good feature?
  186. Splitting to form new colonies
  187. Army size in mid-game expansion war.
  188. An Immortal Saga series
  189. Immortal University XII - Joao II of Portugal
  190. How to push the AI to peace
  191. Oracle - Immortal
  192. Monarch with Gilgamesh
  193. Never used Slavery
  194. Warrior rushing
  195. The Immortal Saga 1: The Seven Seas
  196. Sumerian help!
  197. Post your favorite Leader and your preferred strategy with that leader
  198. Learning Specialist Economy
  199. Monarch Hatshepsut Walkthough
  200. GP Farms: How many do you build?
  201. How suntzu99 got his CIV groove back
  202. Non-financial non-riverside grasslands
  203. Which civs do you think has the best "start"? Meaning, starting techs, and unit
  204. King of the World #5: Isabella
  205. From warlord to noble
  206. Workers
  207. Role Play Challenge: Elizabeth and the Colonial Question!
  208. Divine Intervention II
  209. How to City Specialize
  210. AP (What causes this?)
  211. Overcoming the builder's mentality
  212. Surrounded AIs: Idle during war?
  213. A few quick questions, need input
  214. A Q for the slavemasters...
  215. Oh my god, what a B.S. start.
  216. How to guide - Moving up levels
  217. Please Help Me! building a new city and where?
  218. Justification, Preference (& why we play)
  219. Evaluation of my Last Game
  220. Turn by Turn Routine
  221. What's with Cyrus?
  222. Researching too fast?
  223. Immortal University PacalII of the Maya
  224. The European Saga: Part I: France
  225. Immortal Cookbook I: Roosevelt
  226. Explain to me a scenario in which Police State is useful
  227. Deity Challange
  228. A little advice please
  229. Calendar resources at starting location
  230. Obsoleting?
  231. Nash's Saladin Game Shadow
  232. Does Medic3 heal diagonal units?
  233. Newbie at Civ - needs help
  234. Me, you and Monarch part III
  235. Space Race
  236. Four Player Game
  237. Can someone please explain a few finer points of this game....
  238. continent conquest
  239. How to have the best research rate possible?
  240. Specialists
  241. What do you think of this strat?
  242. One of those games
  243. I'm immortal but...
  244. The Skeleton Infrastructure Strategy
  245. EVP III: The Diplomatic Persians
  246. AI build orders
  247. Ganging up on me
  248. More lands vs loss of trade partner?
  249. Some AI questions
  250. Early Game Benchmarks, Elizabeth, Emperor