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  1. To Vassals? Or not?
  2. domination population % requirement question
  3. What to do with Great Persons
  4. Optimal # cities / improvements
  5. Advice moving to higher difficulty levels
  6. Who to block?
  7. Machine Guns collateral damage immunity
  8. undead shuffle
  9. Specialist Economy Questions
  10. New to Civ 4, question about reviews.
  11. Balancing UU abilities
  12. Make a new city..
  13. Zara Yaquob kicks ass
  14. King of the World #12: Sitting Bull
  15. Improvements to promotions
  16. Espionage Econ?
  17. Build Order
  18. How Barbarians decide? - To fight or move on?
  19. Tips for Wang Kong?
  20. Airships: My new love for them
  21. One off coast that bad?
  22. Right time to build new cities
  23. Sushi powered SE and UN global civic votes.
  24. How am I doing?
  25. Flanking
  26. to build or not to build that is my question
  27. Unit upgrade - worth it? Empire defense
  28. Question: Best way to build an army?
  29. I always go for space race.... HELP ME WITH AGGRESSION!!
  30. Team Play 101 - Totally Hot Cathy
  31. Tips for Justinian?
  32. Army size, composition and loses ratio.
  33. City producing super promoted units
  34. Best rushes? rushing tip? strategies?
  35. Emperor diplomacy
  36. Next Move as Hannibal
  37. Workers & City Management
  38. Monarch Student XIX - Justinian
  39. Expansion and Agression in the early game
  40. Initial Civs
  41. Theocracy : the way to make it count
  42. An Anti-Cottage Economy? (ACE) a.k.a. My culture slider is bigger than yours...
  43. What causes a trade deal to be cancelled without the option to re-negotiate?
  44. Instant defeat of an AI?????
  45. If you could pick your leader, UB and UU....
  46. Help me with diplomacy
  47. Uranium???
  48. How to effectively use Corporations?
  49. Single City Game - not OCC
  50. Everyone else is doing it
  51. How to get a century golden age
  52. City Flipping: Culture or Espionage?
  53. The counter units in early stage
  54. Trade route mechanics: incoming trade routes?
  55. Emperor strategy
  56. No Tech Brokering
  57. Noob with a Problem. Got Answers?
  58. If I wiped out Cyrus why is he still in the game?
  59. What's a legendary city?
  60. question about the strategy: "The Oracle/Metal Casting/Pyramids Gambit"
  61. Need advise for new challenge
  62. airial showdown
  63. Renaissance Start 2: Elizabeth
  64. lost relations from trading
  65. Monarch, I'm getting raped
  66. When should you build Barays when playing Khymer?
  67. Trouble with 2nd Noble Game - Seeking Advice
  68. The Ikhanda + a question about maintenance
  69. learning curve steepest from Noble --> Prince?
  70. What do I do?
  71. When to make a colony
  72. Questions about nuclear weapons
  73. First "real" Monarch game
  74. Moving up to Warlord. Please help?
  75. Pyramids Junky
  76. Who will declare at cautious, pleased, friendly?
  77. Having Hard Time Keeping Up with the AI’s Score on Noble
  78. Specialists vs. Growth
  79. tips for a game: Freddy, normal speed, big and small
  80. My first possible Immortal win
  81. Great People Bulb Orders?
  82. Back Filling Cities
  83. An Interesting Deity Game - Justinian I
  84. having a hard time with monarch
  85. Charly´s Gym: Espionage
  86. Privateers
  87. My worst start ever
  88. Quick Q - Which resources can be settled on(And still get the resource)?
  89. Relationship building help
  90. Silk Plantation
  91. Archipelago "fun"
  92. Spy based economy?
  93. advice needed with Fractal / Emperor / Normal / Isolated Churchill
  94. Guide: defending when outnumbered.
  95. wars
  96. No/Slow AI Trades? Am I Missing Something?
  97. How do I clean up the mess after a war?
  98. what to do w/ 1st Great Spy?
  99. Leader's personalities
  100. Barbarian Scenario - Getting Across Water
  101. Financial trait: ocean tiles or cottages?
  102. Always war option
  103. Civ IV Economies
  104. Stepping up to Monarch
  105. Strange Start, Any Tips?
  106. Immortal University XXI: Asoka
  107. Barbarian Holy City
  108. Quick Question
  109. Comprehensive Leader : Pericles, the underrated Greek
  110. Question about whip overflows
  111. I need to spar a war in my neiborhood..
  112. What do I do from here?
  113. Need advice for Noble domination victory
  114. Poor espionage point accumulation.
  115. Gifting cities to vassals
  116. Resources vs. Tiles
  117. Calling all tank lovers
  118. How do you kill an immortal SoD?!
  119. recognise the 'I get increasingly sloppy phenomena?'
  120. AP/Religious Victory Conditions?
  121. Question about the AI begging
  122. Odd Way to Capture a Barbarian City
  123. Specific City Placement Question
  124. Vanilla Prince game, Saladin
  125. Prince Shadow Game
  126. Lonely Hearts Club, BtS Edition, Chapter XLVI: Churchill
  127. AI Dogpile
  128. Hey Guys, Any Condensced tips for a BtS beginner?
  129. Questions about City Specializations
  130. Settling on resources
  131. ALC Game #26 Pre-Game Show: Dutch/Willem
  132. city placement question
  133. Good emperor practice game
  134. Cottage Economy
  135. Early expanding: Stay close or leap out far?
  136. Is the map generator intentionally perverse?
  137. Improving my Specialist Economy game
  138. DMOC's GIANT Game!
  139. Advice wanted for unit modernization strategy
  140. Tank Question
  141. Circumnavigating in the early game!
  142. Any Specific tips for terra maps?
  143. Charly´s Gym: Monarch
  144. Would you move this capital ?
  145. Cause of you have traded with...
  146. Mad's Role Play Challenge Poll: The last thrid
  147. The post-war slump
  148. Spiritual tips
  149. Spy mission Q
  150. Moving the Capital
  151. No Noob-Love?
  152. Noble's Club XXVI: Pacal
  153. ALC Game #26: Willem van Oranje/Dutch
  154. Warlord Difficulty Questions
  155. Creative Trait Uses?
  156. Capture or destroy? When the march has gone far.
  157. Please help me learn how to play on noble.
  158. Has this ever happened to you?
  159. Watermilling and Workers
  160. Wall St. & Oxford in capital
  161. Stalin (your local despot) needs help
  162. FINAL Mad Scientist Poll of your favorite RPC!
  163. Tactical Nukes vs AI - so unfair
  164. Wonders Question
  165. Mass Army Creation
  166. Immortal University XXII: Mao Zedong
  167. Traits Misuse: Misconceptions- let's sort this out
  168. Agghhh!!! Tired of sucking at this game!
  169. Comment on my Deity attempt?
  170. Worth a screenshot
  171. I lost again.
  172. Noble House of the Vikings
  173. Still not convinced I need 20+ cities
  174. Noob question about Wonders, national, epic, heroic
  175. Monarch Student XX - Darius
  176. NC XXVII Charlemagne
  177. Worst Unique Building
  178. dogpiles...
  179. How do you take advantage of religious civics?
  180. What to do with this save...
  181. Where to settle?
  182. Serendipitous, Synergetic Firsts
  183. Playing a new way.
  184. How much XP do I need to build West Point?
  185. Cultural defense - view discrepency?
  186. Group units to attack
  187. Learning on Noble - Second Attempt
  188. Deities in Calamity (DIE)
  189. CS Slingshot failure
  190. Inflation
  191. Noble House of Tokugawa
  192. Deity PA Game
  193. Questions about First City
  194. Vikings
  195. To Expand or To Waste?
  196. How to deal with insurgents?
  197. Tips needed for economy on Deity
  198. setting way points?
  199. Prince 4 Dummies
  200. Monarch help needed - Nappie
  201. Immortal University XXIII: Saladin
  202. Overseas invasion
  203. Best UU on Deity?
  204. When do you "need" buildings?
  205. Chopping for hammers...what's the story?
  206. Is This the Best Start Ever?
  207. Is War Inevitable?
  208. Some questions about Noble.
  209. Help with Monarch
  210. Changing Speeds: A Madman's Endeavor
  211. Tips for more Smiley faces?
  212. Noble Learning Game
  213. When to accept capitulation
  214. science academy
  215. Hemmed in...
  216. Espionage: How to counter it?
  217. Silv's Chieftain Game 1 - Gandhi
  218. Founding cities around Liberalism
  219. Cottage economy?
  220. Perfect Start? (monarch)
  221. Culture-flip a city
  222. Bureaucracy - Optimize Capitol for Production or Commerce?
  223. west point
  224. Vassals breaking away
  225. visual differences?
  226. Choking at IMM/Deity
  227. Noble Shadow Please
  228. I need city specialization help
  229. OCC game with Lincoln
  230. How Do I Grant Independence To Colony?
  231. Have any of these ever happened to you?
  232. BUG mod - quick query
  233. Chain capitulations?
  234. Starting Resources
  235. [BTS] should I ignore cottages?
  236. First Cultural try - and blew it!
  237. Monarch Student XXI - Montezuma
  238. Ghandi or Elisabeth
  239. Tip: Suicide barrage cannons.
  240. Restarting Earth 18 Isabella
  241. Some basic questions about game mechanics
  242. Some questions about a gameplay hurdle
  243. Vassals
  244. City powerhouses
  245. NCXXVIII Gandhi
  246. From "Abstain" To Voting For You
  247. Combat calculator
  248. Help, about to give up, Monarch just too unfair
  249. When on the attack...
  250. UUs: Power vs. Cost-Effectiveness