Recent content by Corvus corax

I always choose a civ that fits best to a specific strategic plan or goal, and I like to play them all. Slightly favourite are The Netherlands, Maya, Korea, Carthage, Mongols and Korea.

Just passed the 1000 hours.

I like to rush to airsuperiority a.s.a.p. because with enough airpower you don’t need much land units anyway. In several of my king- and emperor-level games about 10 early war bombers combined with only 3 cavalries were all I needed to completely puppet an AI-empire in no time, taking 1 to 2...

Sorry guys, I think most of you severely underestimate the power of mounted units. They are indeed vulnarable to melee and ranged attacks, and great to finish off damaged units. But their greatest strength is the ability to attack and retreat. It is not for nothing that most of them got a...

Right, but it's faster to build a bunch of horsemen first. When you reach chivalry, upgrade and attack. Mandekalu's are great for taking cities, just as most other horse-based units BTW. Because they may retreat after attacking you only need very few accessible tiles near the city to attack...

As many others already said, your highest level win is not always a valid indicator of your overall skills in playing Civ5. In vanilla I won the first games I played on immortal and deity. Not because I was any good, but because both times the AI completely ignored my puny underdeveloped empire...

Most of the times I agree with you, but this time I can mention a few good strategic reasons to conquer City States: • Strategic position in attacking an opponent (when the CS is no ally of mine). • Avoiding them to vote for the AI in UN-elections (when outcome is uncertain)...

In my games I have seen civs staying small (most India, Egypt) with 3 cities max, and civs REXing like mad (most Mongols, Huns, Siam). Sometimes civs stayed small with 3-4 cities until the industrial era and then started spamming cities everywhere they can. In my experience, most of the times a...

For a culture win 4-6 cities may be OK on large or huge maps, but in that case tuning down the number of opponents will kill you. There always will be a runaway civ that will DOW and overrun you. Choosing extra civ might be a better choice (also more trading partners). Most viable strategy, at...

No, DOW one or two civs at a time, depending on how strong or confident you are. ;) First set your goals (puppets, luxuries, eliminating opponents) for this period in the game and choose the opponents to DOW carefully. By defeating the (small) navies of your opponents, you will almost...

Seabeggars are awesome! :D Did you guys ever try one of these two strategies on archipelago maps (high water level makes it even easier) to make optimal use of them? 1. Puppet hunting (for gold and science) • beeline navigation and build some seabeggars a.s.a.p. • convert other ships to...

This way you will never be able to get a domination win, or conquer a capitol. At the time you get rifles most capitols will be strength 60 or up. Ranged attacks (siege) are the key. When possible, stay out of the cities combat range untill defenses are low, or you can reach the city with 3-4...

This might be true if the attacking units were still alive and upgradable. But maybe I jumped to conclusions too fast. It depends on the availability of replacing units,techs, gold, .... And maybe the difficulty level would be nice to know. I myself am testing the G&K civs and gamemechanics at...

It's like Lunchmoney sais: Cities heal every turn (just as units do) and your units are too weak to conquer a 34 strength city! Did you fall back in techs or forgot to upgrade? What kind of melee units did you use, swords or longswords??? FWIW my advice is: cancel this hopeless mission, settle...

Arioch IV is right. I also think the AI sometimes seems to notice your response to the rumours and reacts to it. Sometimes a planned invasion is cancelled by the AI at the last moment. Last week Bismarck warned me for an attack by Askia, I saw units appearing on my border, but after...