Recent content by GenuineRisk

T122 quit. Might give Poland Honor a try, as I love HCA games.

I am playing the Aztec map right now. Quite a fun map!

Do Honor-Commerce! :D It's so much fun.

Thanks for posting. Slowly playing through this now as I find time. Fun map so far.

Yes, you are right that Seoul was not in an amazing location for food, and the expos were pretty bad, too. I fed Seoul with a Cargo Ship and Caravan. I originally intended to settle on the Ivory for gold + Observatory, but seeing that it was only 1 tile from the coast, and not in an amazing food...

I just played this map last night out of curiosity. Zero DoWs, and easy to keep a couple of friends to the end of the game. The map is not horrible - one advantage of Continents maps is that often it cramps the AI from expanding out of control and slows them down, but it does slow you down too...

I think that seems to be exactly what the problem is.

@beetle I think your tech times post-NC are a consequence of your play in the first 100 turns more than whatever you did after NC. You can have T100 NC with a great early game or a terrible early game, and it's not a great benchmark on its own. It sounds like your cities are not big enough...

Playing this one now... T145ish. I get that some CDG games are going to be designated for Diplo, but it is such a hard VC to get motivated for... may switch to late-game Dom to make things more interesting.

NC should be finished well before teching Chivalry. In my rusty early game, I had about T95 NC, T108 Chivalry, and T120 Education. Not great, but comfortably good enough on this OP map.

Camp and Plantation luxuries are mostly pretty bad for food/production, so it makes perfect sense to settle on them for the happiness and gold.

@raider980 At T107ish, Great Wall should not be a problem with Keshiks. Worst case scenario, you can citadel bomb. It's not like GGs are in short supply for the Mongols. Imo, it will only get harder/more annoying if you wait to take him out later.

Do you have to play Korea? Yes, they are God-tier, but I find coastal start bias can be really hit-or-miss, and if you're not even surviving the early game, the science from specialists doesn't mean anything. Arabia might be a good choice with Desert start bias and the Bazaar should keep the AI...

T182 DomV Well, that was a fun game, only my second game of Civ 5 in a year.

Hello all, played the first few of these, and now I'm back. :) Couldn't resist playing this one. Just finished T100.