Recent content by NeMeSiS_BE

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    1001 Quick Tips and things you learned

    If you are in an early war - and about to take the last city of your enemy - you can keep it in their hands - and round after round shoot arrows/catapults in it. 4XP per attack - even when there is no defender in the city and defences are gone. As there is almost no warweariness penalty (unhappy...
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    Enhanced User Interface

    Thank you a lot! Almost Civ6 - but still want to enjoy some Civ5 with this enhanced interface!
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    [mod] TOTAL REALISM 2.0

    Well - the 2.1.3 patch definately fixed my broken game ! You guys spending hours upon hours for this mod - GREAT WORK !!!!! It is appreciated !!! I sometimes still CTD - but when launching an (autosave) savegame - i can continue - might only loose a couple of rounds... strange... most of...
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    RB1 - Cuban Isolationists

    It's damn hard to choose each evening last several days... Only have limited time free after kids are asleep and my work is done... What should i choose : * Play Civ IV (got my copy on monday last week) * continue to read this tread Just finished reading trough - finally - and enjoyed...
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    Republic slingshot

    Always thought there was a worker penalty in despotism. Workers worked 100% in republic and 150 in Democracy. I've always switched to republic asap in my games - but only now i saw the difference in science and gold income. It is true that your cities grow faster - making up for this by...
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    Republic slingshot

    By 510BC - most of my core cities have roads / tiles are worked and some basic infrastructure is in place. Units - would be a number of workers (at least 1/3th) some police units 1/3th and the rest is for exploring (a few) - some offensive units - small strategic reserve. can maybe cut a few...
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    Finally, gotten rid of Civ3!!!

    happened to me too... played civ3 like crazy when it came out... finally got rid of it - lasted more than a year. Then you start reading about upcomming expantion packs (C3C) .... you consider buying it (and are already lost but you just don't know it yet). Indeed - i ended up buying the...
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    Republic slingshot

    Hi, when reading about lot's of games in the forums, i notice a lot of gamers try to get to republic as soon as possiple and immediately change governement. However, With Ainwood's fantastic (!!) Civ Assist tool - in the corruption tab - you can "try out" changes in governement before...
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    GOTM: Highly Effective Habits

    I always play at night after 10pm - when my kids are asleep and there's nothing on TV. (well - even if there is something on tv i guess :cool: ) Play some turns and when i am in a war with things going awry, or when there's a decision time, something unexpected happened, most of the times i...
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    MP (Conquests) problems with SP2

    I recently also installed WinXP SP2 - and ever since i cannot play Civ Conquest anymore. Each time i launch the game - either from original CD or directly from harddisk - i get strange errormessage saying ~e5d141.tmp has encountered a problem and need to close. Anybody an idea ? was...
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    Conquest 04: First Spoiler

    Hi, pretty new to the Game of the month - only found this fantastic website last month... should have had it like years ago ;-) Normally regent player... hoping to move up reading all strategy articles... Anyways here goes my first game : Start by moving worker NE - settler N (4...
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