Recent content by dyllyn

IMHO the problem here is raging barbs. Raging barbs on any difficulty probably skew the game heavily in favor of the player, because the AI remains awful at protecting workers and settlers. I recommend you try another game without raging barbs and see if you have the same success

Confirming, I just steamrolled an emperor game last night as Boudicca, roads do not count as an improvement. And the constant faith bonus isn't important late game. It's mostly to ensure a turn 5 or 10 pantheon. The real power is in Pictish warrior. Holy hell they are killers. Recommend all...

a GDR walks into a bar, and encouters 10 archers that suddenly want to fight him. The GDR kills one archer (taking 1 damage.) He then gets killed by the other 9 archers Firaxis: THIS IS BALANCED LOL I think it's inherently stupid that the damage system is based on luck, and not simple number...

good lord. what are your wait times between turns? are you on some supercomputer?

I once played an immortal game with spain where immediately downriver from Madrid was mount Fiji and 3 wine tiles and a little further on, Cerro de potosi and 2 sugar tiles. I won that game pretty handily especially thanks to the crazy culture from my culture-barcelona

yeah my only purpose in making this thread is my feeling that MAD isn't represented properly. that and my beef with hospitals.

gotta ask, did you go all in on the provocations? denounce, don't settle, gimme your stuff, your enemies are now my friends, my guys are chilling on your border, your CS ally is now my ally, i'm denouncing your friend (good if the friend is warmog cause everyone else will agree with you), if he...

The threat of a nuclear war through simultaneous launches (aka mutually assured destruction) kept the US and the Soviets honest throughout the cold war. Knowing that your opponent would react with nuclear strikes should you launch your own is a sobering deterrence to the employment of nuclear...

I'd say that a No CS raging barb game is one of the easiest to win on diety. without CSes to dump gold into the AI just sits around on huge gold piles. raging barbs help humans but hurt the AI badly. I've matched the AI for cities consistently till the Renaissance or even later because the AI...