Recent content by Maxym

The ferocious Dutch Assault on my cap. My fault, as I pisssed him off early trying to steal his worker and pillage caravan. I denounced first then noticed caravan was to Mecca and I would get nothing, decided to keep going and never Dowed. I was getting almost half my bpt from that...

Went liberty to free settler, then piety to reformation, back to liberty for GA. Took out Egypt and Hiawatha and few Chinese cities including cap. Not really necessary but Thebes and Shanghai both got monasteries and Pagodas after annexing. Brazil UA is huge, it allowed me to cut at least 30...

It seems that the holiday games are deity level to compensate for the relative scarcity of deity games throughout the year. And a part of holiday tradition at CFC now ;) Try playing it to win, not just survive, I find that the mindset makes a difference in deity games. And having a nice...

Egypt and Hiawatha out, moving back to finish Wu, rammy was nice enough to build me SH, mr.H didn't build anything. religion enhanced: monastery and pagodas, one with nature, initiation rites and IP. About 25 turns away from SS assuming Oracle won't get snagged. Settled four cities...

I settled by the mountain and went one city NC and GL, t100 Education. Me personal best for BNW I think, then thought really hard if I should just knock out 5-6 observatory cities and coast to globalization DV or stomp my neighbours and just get to penicillin. Obviously the map was tailor made...

I don't know what I was thinking :rolleyes: I thought astro time would be limiting, but with so many AIs on my side it was obviously killing them that determined finish time. I went for GL. Again thinking I will need fast astro, in retrospect moving towards higher hammer area, and popping...

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Three cities trad, but both routes to Byz for gold, I have more growth than I can handle. Cities In usual spots: Kili and crab/cow mountain, bought both crab tiles and boats as well as two tiles to silk as Theo's settler was ready to drop a troll city there. I already did not block one in the...

Yeah I would not use PP you need ur religion in CS and good luck with that with Spain and Arabs. , just go with pledge and consulates and take someone out early and pay AIs to war each other.

Yes that's long way off, but Devs can improve it a bit. Of course improvements can become detriments in hands of skilled players. I think we forget how vastly improved tactical and strategic AI is from the vanilla days of trickling units into meat grinders. Is it something in the new patch or...

Looks interesting, I wish I had time, still working on the England challenge. Might pick this one up later..

You can just cut religion out if you are having hard time grabbing it, but two scouts heading in opposite directions should come up with something. Don't invest in it, if you get free pantheon and have good fpt generating one like DF, go for it otherwise just appropriate someone elses religion...

I wish honor got back the happy from walls, with the others still staying in autocracy. it would not be huge on it's own but would male honor viable again. I was using it preBNW for the happy it provided in wide domination games. And yes always right side, left was useless. Upgrades to CB and...

Yes that would be ideal or at least should be part of the fix, but early on it is hard to pile on the positive modifiers without WC , spies and ideologies. Some kind of freebie with regards of CS Dow like the free DoW of old days would let players develop alternative strategies around it. Do I...

66 def would be hard to do with XB, 26 is a sweet spot for them, Next time sell the city you are about to lose to someone, preferably next victim. Get it back intact in peace settlement later ;) Enjoy your come from behind win, of course continue with it.