Recent content by Nicolas10

We saw this in the CiV livestream when Gregg was churning out Samurai, but was actually building swordsmen before buying the upgrade.

This thread cracks me up... Especially with the traditional 'nerd' diet of something carbonated, caffeinated, or both :). I actually makes sure to be super healthy when I play for long stretches. It's the only way I can forgive myself for zoning out from everything else. Mineral Water...

I have some quick questions after reading the Manual: 1) Do Great General Bonuses stack? I.e. could you have 3 Great Generals behind the lines and have troops within 2 hexes of each, i.e. a unit in the middle, get 3X the bonus? 2) How do Promotions work, XP-wise? Is it 15 XP for each...

To get back on the thread topic (Re: Improving Greg's gameplay): He clearly didn't have enough ranged and mounted units to go along with his samurai. He had no strategic goal, so he kept pumping out (building and buying an upgrade) Samurai with his available Iron. They gave as good as they...

Can the Moderator just give Everett his own forum? These *snip* threads detract from the site and make most of us less happy. Careful....use of mod tags by a non moderator is a bannable offense....

Sigh... how can anything be "reformed" until we play with it first? Can't we just hold off on these threads until somebody actually plays the game. Can't we just post things like: "Huh, that's an interesting change. Can't judge it until we play with it." ?? Probably not, huh?

I think it's interesting that people are talking about such large groups of forces... Anyway, I think the biggest principle will be tactical offense. First-Strike will be powerful, whether on an offensive war into an enemy's land, or waiting for the enemy to come to you. I think the...

I plan on turning off Diplomatic Victory... As I did in Civ IV. After building a civilization for Hours (and millennia), I could care less about some farcical UN Vote. The "Best" Civilization accomplishes something.

Rabble, Rabble, Rabble... Civ V will be Awesome! P.S> Rabble!

Haven't all the previewers been playing on chieftain and settler, though? I'm hopeful the barbs have impact when you move up levels, a la Civ IV

Hey Moderators: Can we form, like, one big sticky thread for all these threads? It's a real killjoy to see everyday these threads on "skepicism" "what's there to be excited about" etc. Just give them one big thread to vent why they are unhappy. Then we can get back to fun and strategy...

Rabble, Rabble, Rabble, Rabble... !!!!

Let me add a thought, here: There needs to be something to discourag a vast neutral lands road network. The main reason is militarily. If you can road through every piece of rough terrain, i.e. hills, forests, etc. then you can station an army in neutral territory and be ready to fly around...

Um, could you link to said screenshot? :). All the jeuxactu shots I saw were as playing the Romans... They have French shots, too?

Can Azazell chime in? Did he build any roads to City states or to connect cities? I don't see how you can only be charged for a road inside one of your city's cultural sphere... seems pretty obvious that without culture bumps and with no distance maitenance costs, you could build a city a...