Recent content by Avatan

Good points. I would associate the ability to Khans and not Keshiks so it lasts longer: *units captured within two tiles of a Khan has a chance of being captured.* Extending the capture ability instead of allowing for unit training might limit the abuse potential, but also make the Mongols into...

I was watching a documentary on the Mongols and was really fascinated by their tradition of incorporating general, soldiers, and technicians from defeated army. This was particularly decisive with Chinese gunpowder specialists which led to the use of firearms as early as the 13th century. This...

Honestly Carthage in the "right" place would just solve everything. I want to have to fight for Sardinia. Hopefully a mod soon.

Agreed for Mali/Nubia. I am playing as Rome and was expecting a contested military game with naval battles and agressive conquests, but there is just so much prime real estate in north Africa. My amenities are already stretched thin from my peacefully setting amazing locations I can't think why...

Defeat (Science victory T316 with one reload). Got stuck in a pyrrhic war with Tamar and got set back too much. Loaded back a few turns and pivoted to a science victory since my campus spots were so nice. Got my first ever deity win in cic 6, so I am happy I tried this GOTM! In the end I...

CNNs on their own would not be very useful indeed, but the general idea here would be to use some variation of reinforcement learning (Q-learning) to learn policies/strategies. Since the map is a regular grid, CNNs would be the right fit to learn an embedding (representation) of the game state...

Machine learning/ computer vision researcher here. I view civ 6 as overwhelmingly more complicated as Go for the following reasons, in no particular order: - delayed reward : the winning conditions aren't met before hundreds of turns, and small decisions like city placement can tremendous impact...

What I am afraid of with the changing culture is that the competitors will be less personnable. Now in civ, if I spawn next to Monty now what to expect, and I can build a relationship throughout the game and even over my entire civ experience. In this setting, if my neighbor is China for a...

Barbary Corsair (Ottomans) - 19 Bireme (Phoenicia) - 20 Black Army (Corvinus/Hungary) - 21 Conquistador (Spain) - 28 Cossack (Russia) - 21 De Zeven Provinciën (Netherlands) - 22 Digger (Australia) - 18. Eagle Warrior (Aztec) - 28 Hetairoi (Macedon/Alexander) - 25 Huszár (Hungary) - 16 Hwacha...

I meant with every civ, as opposed to musicians who primarily target one civ in particular. I usually take off a few culture specialists so that the 3 gwams pops in the next turn, hence 750 for each civ, pre-modifiers.

If you go autocracy you can get away with low culture by unlocking the futurism tenet and timing your gwam to pop just after. +750 tourisms with every one early game will put you to familiar and you should be safe. After that all the stolen art works should keep you safe. And the many happiness...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 86 Date submitted: 2014-06-15 Your name: Avatan Game status: Diplomacy Victory Game date:1850AD t295 Got a strong 4 cities tradition start, NC at 80, Education at 120 (meh). Conquered the French with a xbow rush around t100, then snatch a sweet city from Maria, then...

Full autocracy all the way. crazy amount of happiness and production, double atrategic ressources (very important here). plus it allowed me to completely ignore science thanks to those double rate stealing spies, except for the NC. Teches to railroad for a crazy +65% production in all cities...

Yeah that would work too, although I like the indirect buff to mounted units of nerfing pikes.

Double maintenance of healing units? As in count for two units because of non-linearity.