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Hi-de-ho there Civvers. I wanted to create a thread to serve as a repository for ideas, thoughts, strategies, and lessons learned for those of us making the move up to the Monarch difficulty level. There's been several Monarch student games (fun and good learning tool, BTW) that have been...

OK so I'm curious. What was your quickest, most devastating conventional war? I'm a builder by nature and find wars somewhat tedious, but I tried an experiment to see how quickly I could polish off Shaka. This was partly just to see how quick it could be done, and partly because I had just...

So, after great struggles I was finally able to capture from Boudica a great city that contains 2 wonders (Angkor Wat and Chichen Itza). Serves her right for stabbing me in the back and launching a sneak attack. Anyway, the city just came out of revolt and I appear to be getting the benefit...

After reading so many of the awesome tutorials and discussions on city specialization, and after participating in the best city thread in general discussion I had an idea. I wanted to create a thread where people could show their proudest achievements in city building and specialization...

OK so I just captured Moscow, a holy city with the shrine and size 18 population. It says it'll take 12 turns to get out of revolt and be completely under my control. 12 turns! :( Is there any way to accelerate the process? I have a 35+ unit stack of doom stationed there, so it's not for...

I have a question about Holy Cities. I'm currently fighting a pitch battle for survival with Catherine the Great (that little backstabbing witch :lol:) and best I can tell most of her economy is based in the gold she collects from having the Hindu holy city in her capital. She founded it...

I just had the strangest thing happen. In my current game I'm on a smallish continent all to myself. I only have contact with two other civs now that we have Galley's plying the seas. (Tokugawa of Japan and his colony). My best guess is that he is on the tip of a bigger landmass. Early in...