Recent content by Lokos451

A few tips: Build a scout immediately. Pick tradition for a few games as your first policy, and legalism ASAP. Tradition is always a solid performer, where liberty requires a little more finesse as things stand. Those free monuments in your early city spam are a big help. Four cities by...

You may not be able to live on salt, but you cannot live without it either. Ease of access would help you preserve things, and satisfy that basic need...helping to diversify a diet indirectly. Beyond that, well, it's a game. It's better if they do things for balance reasons instead of...

If the enemy has a coastal city you want to take, ironclads have enough unit strength to be your finisher...and a hit or two on the way. They're often very tough compared to the strength of cities, esp if you get them early. But yeah, factories first and foremost! Ironclads are very...

This is something I do all the time for the first city or two, before I have caught up enough on the first few tiles each city MUST develop immediately, and can afford to just throw enough workers at it to do it almost all at once. Build two turns on flatland, move over, do it again, move back...

Bumping this thread, cuz it's worth reading!

Tabarnak has already posted in this same subforum a version of this strat to utilize trade routes and grow three cities instead of four. Check it out, it's necro'd down there somewhere!

I want to say you can purchase them for 1000 faith at standard speed....but basically, you have to generate faith to purchase them with.

I gotta disagree with America missing the cut. I play a ton of hotseat, and every time I play with America on the other team they do the same thing: ICS spam the map up to your borders. Get mad. Attack. I don't actually mind this, since it makes them pretty threatening if you let them...

Another way to do it is not to wait for a quest, but to have an archer or even scout camp near a city state VERY early, pledge immediately, kill a few barbarians in contact with their border, and get the boost while turns are at the utmost premium. I've seen a few older diety strats that...

Even worse when they spawn desert...you know how flaky AI's get when they have overheating issues....

That game is totally winnable, and you should figure out how to do it for one simple reason...if you can't beat an admittedly tough opponent early, Alexander, on your current difficulty, you'll never figure how to move up! Here's my advice. Rethink what you qualify as a good city. There's...

Horses are great to have, even if you don't really use horsemen. The computers value them at (normal speed) 45gp...so should you. After all, why not get paid!? ;) Beyond that, try building at least one to add to your army every game and you'll find they can make a big difference. They take...

I for one, am really glad Civfanatics is highlighting this game, whether it's actually a huge commercial/artistic success or not. Strategy games are kind of a barren landscape nowadays, and even just having another competitor in the ring will be really good for the current giants, namely Civ...

If you still need a playtester, I have some time and the DLCS.

Yeah, this is typically how I construct my roads, except that I'll typically also finish the roads in rough terrain to save worker turns, then they move back out into the flatlands to do the last turn on the road(s) there. It won't save you THAT much gold, but every little micro like this...