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  1. war
  2. a question on mods
  3. everything!
  4. Few questions about warmongering in civ
  5. Teaming with an AI for a game...
  6. Leader for first time SE try
  7. Organized Military
  8. OCC Help needed
  9. Differing Strategies with AI aggressiveness ON or OFF
  10. Being underdog
  11. Health + Happiness question
  12. Coastal Starts
  13. Help with warfare across oceans
  14. Health, hunger and commerce
  15. Threshold confusion
  16. Attacko Challenge I - Power Scouting
  17. Poterntial Mod of trait
  18. Pyramids and Financial
  19. Some help needed for my Catherine/Noble/Continents/Epic game
  20. Universal Suffrage
  21. Buying techs
  22. Barbarians: how do YOU deal with them?
  23. Fast Cultural Wins
  24. Mali on Earth18 - Start
  25. Regarding Food Counting
  26. Early space race victory, How??
  27. Play the map
  28. Quick question
  29. Noble/Roman/Rush - except...
  30. Short Changed?
  31. Drafting and experience
  32. Should I go for it?
  33. Cash from Double wonders exploit !
  34. Drafting tips
  35. Need help with the military.
  36. Role Play Challenge: DeGaulle's League
  37. I messed up war again, save attached
  38. What single tech do you try and shoot for after starting a game?
  39. AI world war declaration predictable?
  40. Hammer-decay, how does it work?
  41. Improving Scores
  42. The Power of the Worker
  43. help with this map
  44. Dealing with enemy culture whilst warring
  45. Is it possible to cheat AP forced peace with cease fire?
  46. How to get the AI not attack me out of the blue?
  47. Questions Regarding REXing
  48. Crushing Louis XIV in the early game (Noble)
  49. Rule change: Reveal classical resources earlier?
  50. Attacko's Ice Archers
  51. Best way to trash your opponent's science?
  52. Going from Monarch to Emperor
  53. Quick feedback on city specialization
  54. Advice on a wonder start with Incas
  55. Criticizing the Istanbul Doctrine - help me!
  56. Vikings Bezearkers
  57. Can my vessal create new colony?
  58. GP Farming with Pacifism
  59. The art of city flipping?
  60. Whipping exercise
  61. Workers. When do you build them?
  62. Why did these 3 Civ III features get dropped?
  63. Efficient use of workers
  64. Starvation – What are the Implications?
  65. Great General without war??
  66. To Rush or Not to Rush
  67. Chaining Vassals
  68. Don't Call It A Come Back - Why The Internet Is The Best Wonder
  69. Quick WFYABTA question
  70. Using UUs
  71. winning a game
  72. Diplomacy gets increasingly annoying
  73. Huge Map Series Game 1: Hannibal's Bad Dream
  74. Is there a way to skip multiple turns?
  75. Looking for Rexing Guides
  76. Does AI ever delete obsolete units?
  77. Stingy vassals
  78. Guide to Decision Making Based on Commerce, Hammers and Food
  79. Rushing as Sitting Bull
  80. Espionage mission: Influence civics mechanic seems flawed.
  81. A New Comer's Questions
  82. Forge or Courthouse, which first?
  83. Monarch Student XVI - Victoria
  84. Earth 18 Challenge: Realistic Empires!
  85. Lonely Hearts Club, BtS Edition, Chapter XLIV: Mehmed II
  86. Barbarians
  87. Terminology
  88. Request: Inca on Earth18 or 1000AD Start
  89. Attacking directly from a transport
  90. Some questions?
  91. How to play as Portugal?
  92. Soirana's Immortality: last time
  93. Difference in diff between Norm and Epic?
  94. Does AI cheats when going to Space Victory ...
  95. Help Me/Critique my immortal game.
  96. Culture?
  97. Questions about collatarial damage.
  98. Leader traits reference
  99. Causing friends to become former friends.
  100. Thomas War mod
  101. Quechua Rush revised
  102. Help! Diplo/war advice for Emp, huge pan 15 civ game.
  103. Help!!!
  104. Spies
  105. A question about AI settler behavior
  106. Game Length (Marathon or Epic?)
  107. Totem poles!
  108. Creative Construction FTW
  109. dotmap?
  110. Technology help
  111. Capitulate already, damn you!
  112. Quick AP question
  113. CHA / IMP help
  114. No settler variant
  115. Military organisation
  116. Asoka, the Holy Roman
  117. Can a land medic heal ships or bombers?
  118. Favorite National Wonder
  119. Suggest me some settings and self-imposed rules to improve my Warmongering
  120. Moving to Monach
  121. POLL: Games Best War-Monger
  122. Anybody interested in a Deity game?
  123. JBossch's (possibly disastrous) Deity attempt: 1
  124. Q:Quick moves
  125. Cultural vic with Hatty
  126. Enemy civ trouble...
  127. Pressing barbs with warriors on Deity?
  128. What happens when I get broke?
  129. Monarch Student XVII - Frederick
  130. how does the ai handle nukes?
  131. Role Play Challenge: Honest Abe Loves NY!
  132. Foreign corporations
  133. Immortal University XVIII
  134. Upgrading Units, xp loss
  135. Drill 4 vs Combat 4
  136. what's that espionage icon near score?
  137. Rifles+artillery or Cannons+Infantry
  138. Populating islands
  139. roosevelt
  140. Culture Victory: Great Person Question
  141. Map Location and food are the only things that matter?
  142. GPT for Techs Bug
  143. Can the world still be conquered from here??
  144. Unit move / city build prompts
  145. Ranking the Civ's by color
  146. Immortal University XIX - Bismark
  147. Charlemagne reconsidered
  148. Confused Lizzy
  149. Top five UU/UB combos
  150. Trait comparison game?
  151. Jump from Monarch to Emperor
  152. Attacko's Bowmen
  153. active events
  154. defeating longbows
  155. Looking for first 50 turns MM.
  156. Trait Comparison Game I: Byzantium.
  157. Game evaluatation
  158. problems
  159. Horatio Nelson has died in Combat!
  160. [Vanilla] I WON A PRINCE GAME! :D
  161. Looking for a good Modern War.
  162. lerning imortal club?
  163. When should I disband obselete units?
  164. Semi-isolated Start on Emperor
  165. Guide to barbarian surprise attack
  166. Time for a "Help me beat Immortal" game.
  167. How do I combat the 'cannot finish game' sickness?
  168. King of the World #12 Pre-Game Thread
  169. City Garrison or Gueriila
  170. Barbarians stop spawning.
  171. Isolated deity suggestions
  172. GP farms and cottage heavy economies
  173. Roman problems in noble
  174. Help!!! pt. 2
  175. Get me off of Pangaea
  176. Uses for Spies
  177. Crushing enemy vassals
  178. Advice re Industrial (or Renaissance) start
  179. JBossch's random leader Deity attempt: 2
  180. Expected value of damage inflicted.
  181. Cities and resource help.
  182. Recovering from Extreme early REX
  183. Playing Portugal?
  184. Rathaus vs. Organized?
  185. Best set up for early large empire that doesn't nuke your science?
  186. BTS Prince level advise
  187. Slavery --> Caste System
  188. Very early trouble on immortal, suggestions pls
  189. JBossch's random leader Deity attempt 3
  190. Renaissance Start: Lincoln
  191. Rexing Problems
  192. Fixing Saladin
  193. First thread/interesting game situation(with screenshots!)
  194. Tech-rushing to Alphabet for trading?
  195. 2 Quick City Placement ?'s
  196. You have shared your technological discoveries with us
  197. AI Logic (I know oxymoron)
  198. Emperor - Always War
  199. What went wrong!!!
  200. Final MadScientist RPC: Pregame thread
  201. Great people techs
  202. Trading/gifting techs that obsolete something
  203. Monarch Student XVIII - Gilgamesh
  204. REX.. wait, what?
  205. Forgiving war dec
  206. General Island Strategy (not OCC)
  207. A question about gifting tech and relations
  208. Capital: Hammers vs. Cottages
  209. Management Help.
  210. Make fun of my immortal skills
  211. Which improvements do you cottage over?
  212. Balancing the Earth Scenario
  213. Best way to deal with Sitting Bull?
  214. If you didn't get the free tech from lib, would you still take the high road?
  215. How do i upload a save.
  216. Madrassa and Obelisk - what's the point?
  217. Role Play Challenge: All Good Things.......
  218. How i win multi FFA
  219. Do promotions like pinch make aircraft better vs gunpowder units?
  220. What are the benefits of a "First Strike," exactly?
  221. FLAVORS of leaders in XML
  222. I didn't realize civics effect the governor...
  223. help with carthage start
  224. Lonely Hearts Club, BtS Edition, Chapter XLV: Ragnar
  225. Forest + Seafood start
  226. Which "foot soldier" gets drafted?
  227. Specialist Economy Questions
  228. This map feels one skill level harder than normal when...
  229. Pitting Two Civs Against Each Other
  230. Happy resource trades
  231. How to maintain a proper city
  232. Stupid UN question
  233. What should your specialist cities be producing in the Industrial Age??
  234. How to create a freshwater lake with the worldbuilder ?
  235. A Guide to Deity Space Victory using a Single City in Civ4
  236. Best time for expansion?
  237. I need serious help
  238. Wonder Trouble
  239. Gifting techs to vassals?
  240. Founding on other continents?
  241. What would you do with this start?
  242. Lib Post-Lib Immortal
  243. Do you ever vote for Civics in UN?
  244. Which is your FAVORITE Unique Unit?
  245. Immortal University XX - Stalin
  246. Why can't I put a Settler on a Caravel?
  247. Corp failed to spread?
  248. 100% slider
  249. Best civ/traits when bozed in?
  250. Ai grows too strong!