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I was playing Portugal, aiming towards a cultural victory. The only culture runaway was Arabia, and I wanted to do what I could to trip him up, so I proposed an embargo against them in the World Congress, which passed. Aaaaaand there goes my 25% tourism bonus for having a trade route with...

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When going for cultural victory, I plant most of them for great works early on in the game, then tend to use the special ability more and more the later the game goes. The bonuses you get from them are a lot larger later on, and +2 culture/tourism at that point is a relatively small effect. If...

I've experimented with Honor in BNW, and will typically start with the opener to get the barb culture boost, then switch over to working on either Tradition or Liberty. Having that extra culture really does help drill down the policy tree more quickly. Military Tradition and Military Caste are...

I played a game with Portugal on King (standard speed, standard size, continents) and won a cultural victory without too much trouble. The basic outline of play was: I went for a very tall approach, only founding three of my own cities. Two of them were coastal, so I was able to get some...

I've never tried playing with raging barbs, but this made me wonder, does changing the level of barbs have any effect on how many ancient ruins get generated on the map? Or is that independent of the barbarian level?

Names I've used so far: Pastafarianism Atheism Nihilism (we believe in nothing, Lebowski!) Alcoholism ("Kathmandu desires Alcoholism" :D) Recidivism

My brother and I were at CompUSA looking at games and came upon a bundle pack that included both Unreal Tournament and Civilization 2 (I guess CompUSA had excess inventory and was trying to get rid of them). The bundle actually cost less that Unreal Tournament by itself, but my brother already...

On the subject of resource production points, I always thought it would be cool if you would have to go searching for the resources more. Perhaps when the resource first became known, obvious deposits would appear on the map, but then you could go in with workers and dig for iron ore, drill oil...

I think all improvements that affect a city's production are calculated as a modification on the city's current base production, not the production at the time the improvement was built. Also, multiple improvements percentages are added up and then all applied to the base production. So for...

I think more people would use Explorers if they had simply named them "Elite Ninja Spy" instead. :p

Yeah, I'm in the middle of a game playing the Iroquois, too. I usually don't attack in the ancient era, but mounted warriors just kick so much ass, I couldn't resist. Those American spearmen never stood a chance. :) I also managed to get two great leaders, so I built one army so I could build...

One thing that I do fairly frequently in the ancient era is to try to research "depth first" rather than getting all the leftmost techs first. There are a couple reasons for this. The techs get more expensive as you go to the right, but there is a 40 turn max on the number of turns it can...

OK, I think I get it. Attacking a stack means two movement points spent, one one the attack and one moving back. That does seem pretty gimpy, but it makes sense. So if I attacked a stack sitting on a hill with a modern armor, would I only get one attack, since attacking the hill would be...

I've noticed in battle that while some units, such as Tank and Modern Armor, claim that they allow you to attack more than once, they don't always allow you to do so. Sometimes I will attack another unit and kill it, and it will allow me to attack again, but sometimes it won't, and I haven't...