Recent content by Deau

Hi guys, Even though I haven't really been active in civ5 for 1 1/2 months, I'm hoping and planning around my 5 days off to get my set - a 20 turns set - done and posted. Please at least reply if there is still some interest in wrapping this up as if not, il spare myself extra time outdoors w/...

I'm almost positive they do get range and yes, it is retained for range 4 artillery. As far as I recall, they also get logistic so the rationale in a different thread could possibly still stand. Realistically though, such highly promoted early siege units are so powerful with +1 range that the...

Actually, there is potential to generate a few GE/GM without reducing the number of GS you get over the course of the game. In particular, it is also possible to achieve without delaying planted GSs or late bulbs. The issue that occurs is that a single city can "only generate so much GPP for...

It used to be worthwhile in vanilla when liberty ttumped trad even with just 4 cities. Nowadays, I would only consider it if i planned to go wide through early war rush leveraged game and sadly, this os even weaker since fall patch

My argument isn't that you won't keep growing after you reach ideologies but rather that with the increased cost of every other growth, unless you randomly suddenly plan to work all specialists in all cities, the 4-6 food per turn from the specialists does not provide enough a growth edge to get...

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The half food per specialist is nearly irrelevant at this point in the game. At best it will carry you 1pop further in cities by the time you want t GS bulb spam. As for spaceship build. Its been rehashdd over and over again. In normal conditions where you dont pump 200 faith per turn, spam...

quick simple comparison 4 city, pop 30/20/20/20 (for simplicity) working only exactly all 4 scientist slots with secularism (not counting guilds or engineers worked if any). 25% in all 4 city will provide roughly (total pop*2 +23/city (4 scientists, +3 base from Pschool)) * .25 so...

Glory7 did it sub T150 with Zulus in another thread (I have not clue what the thread name was). The map plays a larger role in expected turn-to-victory than the civ really but beyond that, anything that increases your movement or allows you to sustain multiple fronts at once helps so I'd dare...

Hi guys, I'm sorry, I haven't been able to play my set over the weekend and it's looking bad for the next 7 days as well. I'm not sure what to propose from here but I really doubt I'll be able to play before the 11th or 12th of December. I'll keep up with the replies at least once a day...

yeah I've had some awful rng with crabs and pearls but it is still extremely rare. The argument people bring up for "WLTKD" is rng is that they couldn't trade 1:1 lux. Well the point is this shouldn't stop you from WLTKD. At least not in capital

Just l2 pay 3 times the lux value for WLTKD. That's what I do when striving for earlier turn-to-victory SVs. There's almost always at least 2 civs with 1 copy of a lux - otherwise a CS has it. I've had extremely rare cases where this didn't happen.

use spies to coup, spend gold on a few CS allies, bribe an AI to DoW a close CS of your enemy (must prepare a while in advance). The number of votes required does not scale down as CSs votes get eaten up by the Genghis khan s of this world. If one specific AI has all CS allies on the map, you...

Consulates is dead with fall patch...it's nearly useless. You'll get way more bang for your buck, even as siam or greece, by going left side and actually dedicating resources to CS alliances. Pick your battles and sustain alliances >>>> hope for good rng to get 15-30 turns of alliance over a...

Broadway is bad for CV. It is either completely irrelevant because you have crazy fpt and can purchase GMs or a significant hinderance to your expected turn to victory by significantly crippling post internet GMs from guild points.