Recent content by karmina

Well, this is certainly one of the most fun gotms ever, but I won't finish in time for submission - just too much carnage...for every city I take, it seems like 10 turns or more until the tides of counterattacks ebb off and I can proceed (provided my reinforcements arent needed to fend off...

Yes, but what distance to the city is allowed? I read it's a bonus for just one city, not empire wide.

What are the exact conditions for getting a bonus from marble for wonder production, and how big is it? There's no info in the manual afaik... As for food and rivers, keep in mind you dont need fresh water for farms in civ5. And buying the cow tile is possible when settling in...

Interesting question, it boils down to whether the 33% penalty is multiplicative ((4/3)^n) or additive like almost everything in civ: (n+2)/3, with n being the number of cities in your empire. The capital with palace, stonehenge and (later) hermitage should generate about 1.5-2.5 times the...

Key? I don`t think so, nice to have but comes pretty late. Is it even multiplicative or does it just make up for one extra city? Key is Stonehenge for the initial boost, then Piety tree, then rushing to Acoustics and Archeology (If we still had a culture slider I would stop research at this...

Diplo is all about buying city states, and optionally wiping out some civs to win quicker and cheaper. Alex is the leader of choice of course. UN is pretty deep in the tech tree... ...for a cultural victory however you dont need many techs, maybe radio for broadcast towers, but nothing else...

Domination 1050 AD. Overkill with knights, longswords and tons of workers vs. jaguars, archers, warriors and a couple of spears. Honestly, whats up with the AI at this lvl of difficulty? Nobody had more than 3 cities, and not a single sword or crossbow. I hardly built libs, researched every...

The first leader played in any new civ installment just has to be Caesar. Period. :D

Me too. However, it might be fun to have a special "challenger" or "hard-mode" award for a special VC combined with some extra craziness, like winning the game without ever discovering the wheel :lol: I'm absolutely against any kind of real-/playing-time awards or restrictions. Not being an...

I'm playing the scenarios from top to bottom. Immediately after finishing the Radiant Guard I was able to start the Black Tower, and fortunately I saved that game on turn 1 - because afterwards the game crashes every time I try to start the scenario. Anyway, my feedback for the Black Tower...

You do realize that most Germans, especially Prussians like Bismarck, regard the Oktoberfest as cultural accident with fake beer & bad music? ;)

1320 without Praets...:eek: Congrats and well done!

I tried several other games: one archipelago which utterly failed; some boreal maps that I quit around 14xx when it became obvious that I'm too slow; tons of boreal maps quit in disgust with no single strategic resource... And finally the one, extremely rare game as Augustus with stone and gems...

Sure I play boreal, the one and only map to slow'em all down. But from what I can tell, most or all AI had access to both iron and horses. Anyway, I didn't continue that game (yet), but started another as Suleiman...and won! :king: Again no metals nor stone nor marble, but at least horses...

Theology is far from useless because of the AP hammer bonus and maybe even Hagia Sophia. Early Education can get you to very early Gunpowder. But actually I was thinking of the current HoF gauntlet (always war OCC), where you only need 1 university for Oxford. Since this isn't OCC, and since we...