Recent content by capnvonbaron

Adam Smith. Merch GP. +1 economy slot.

Vassals certainly make for earlier domination/conquest victories. Once you research Feudalism, you can enslave any civ you sufficiently beat to tar rather than have to finish them off entirely. The first one is typically the toughest to get since they only vassal to you once a certain power...

Any speculation as to the game's premise? Think it'll be conquest of our solar system, continuation to and settling of Alpha Centauri, or going to multiple star systems beyond??

Just looked. Those galleys Han is sending aren't really a "surprise attack"... the AI on your continent can and will send stuff on boats once it has already DoW'd you if it senses an easy meal. I moved the trireme over one tile and attacked the galleys on the next turn, sank one, forced the...

If this is a serious, serious threat, here are some last ditch defense tactics. Scorched earth isn't really that helpful short of maybe cutting roads behind the stack to slow down reinforcements once he takes that first city. If his first target is a weak city on flat ground, you can just let...

I didn't look at the saves but here's a few critical strategies for warring with the AI: 1. The AI will NEVER surprise attack you from the sea if it can access you from the land. This is a game-mechanic fact. The only time it can is on the rare, rare circumstance it has units on transports...

Correct; you don't need open borders to trade -- you just need a route. That route can be river, seashore, or road... however across ocean you must have Astronomy. Sometimes however, AI will have extra resources they refuse to trade because they're already trading them away, or they just don't...

UPDATE: Wow, I didn't know you could EP-kill spaceship parts even from a city that hadn't built one. Good to know :) I wasn't really in danger of losing to Willem anymore since he researched composites last and had to build all those stupid casings (I already had), but at the end I had so...

I've never had an AI get bribed to close borders with me... its usually the AP, because many times if you are not an AP member (infidel!!) you won't even be notified of the votes. IMO its the most annoying thing in the game because mid- to late- game I count on a good chunk of income from...

Well, its been working pretty well so far. I kinda wish now I'd taken a few screenies, it'd make for a good write-up. After switching civics (freespeech->Nat'lism) and moving my palace to the production city that bordered Willem's crap city on my continent, I split the research/EP sliders and...

Well, I investigated the whole bribery thing, but Shaka already has two vassals and I know he'd just vassal Willem and the teching would continue. Plus, Shaka just DoW'd me for no good reason other than I'm the human player with not enough units on the map. Fortunately the AI sucks at naval...

... Willem is researching fission whilst the rest of the world is still missing such things as replaceable parts and chemistry? :sad: I myself have those, but rifling is still a dozen turns away... hell I can't even STEAL techs from Willem fast enough to make a difference!

Well the nice thing about a history based game it that it doesn't HAVE to be all about strategy... some players want to play it for RPG reasons. In that effect, random events can be fun. I usually play with them on because more than often if I get a bad enough random event that I quit, I...

^^^ haha yeah I guess I do that one quite a bit too.....

At least once per game when GK shows up... "KHHHAAAAAAANNN!!!!"