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There is a lot of info on UB's but most of it is old from many years ago. I'm wondering what the current community thinks are the best UB's. Here are the contenders that come to mind: Terrace (Inca) - Granary with +2 culture is super duper useful to pop borders early Ball Court (Maya) -...

Assuming you're going for Space and it's a long game, do you usually end up in Emancipation? I've been trying to not switch to it in the last few games and with lots of happiness resis plus HR I can certainly handle up to +8 unhappiness from citizens wanting Emancipation and still grow cities...

It's not necessarily that I can't as I haven't tried but I think I would struggle. I find my tech lead slipping by the time I get to Industrial Era and I'm usually close to a Con/Dom victory so I just go that route. I've also gone for Culture and done so quite comfortably. Can someone here...

I have some questions about this diplomatic penalty of trading with someone's worst enemy. I've noticed that it can range from -1 to as much as -4. I have a few questions: 1) Do different leaders give a different amount of penalty? 2) Does doing more trades or trading resources/gpt for...

I think this is kind of a trend with Archipelago. Anyways I haven't played one of these in ages so I decided to fire one up as Roosevelt. Immortal/NH/NE as usual. He's not a Fin leader which feels too easy but Ind could be useful for building wonders and Org is a nice all-around trait...

In the last couple of games, I've really started playing with and see the enormous power of whip overflow. I've always used it for units but I now I see how strong it is when rushing wonders. For example, playing a non-Expansive civ, I'll put 29 :food: + :hammers: into a Worker then 2 pop...

1) Do they take defensive pacts into account? For instance, if I sign a defensive pact with the strongest civ is that a deterrent to declarations or does it simply mean I'll just have a strong ally if they do declare? That can be a pretty important consideration if I'm low on military. 2)...

Which are more important? I was solidly on the side of traits but not so sure anymore after more experience on Immortal level where efficient early development becomes king. For instance played an offline game with Qin Shi Huang and had a bunch of warlike neighbours (Khan, Toku, Shaka) each...

I kind of want to disable it because the mechanic often doesn't work so well. I recall losing a few games in the past years because a bunch of weak AI's all decide to become peaceful vassals to a powerful civ who they don't even like. Other weird occurrences too especially with...

I've been playing the game on and off for the last few years and I'm a borderline Emperor/Immortal player. My last game on Emperor I was building the Manhattan Project while other AI's were around Gunpowder but Immortal is more challenging. I can win easily with the likes of Rome or Inca or on...

Been away from the game but got back into it. Playing with Gilga on Emperor. 1160 AD, 6 cities, behind in tech but not hopelessly. I played through this one quickly and made some mistakes. Seeing that I had no copper (it's my third or fourth time overall playing with Gilga and I never once...

Hey guys some of you may remember the Climb The Ladder series. I stopped playing civ until about 2 weeks ago. Crazy busy with school and work but now I have more time so I'm back. :D On the bad side, I got kind of rusty being away from civ for so long. I am still only shaky on Emperor...

Hey guys, you may remember the Climb the Ladder series originally started by JTMac99 about a year back that I took over. I was very busy around that time and lost a little bit of enthusiasm in the game but I'm back!! I don't have the original save where I left off as Stalin (I don't want to...

If I want to industrialize and I always do since production wins games, I find that I must use Environmentalism to combat unhealthiness (especially if not Expansive although it doesn't matter much). +25% corporate costs and -1 trade route seems like an ok tradeoff when you solve all healthiness...

For those of you who are not familiar, the following link has some great strategy for attack and defense that new players in particular should look at. Even though labeled as MP strategies, these are certainly valid in SP as well. http://fastmoves.wordpress.com/

I got around to playing Shaka and using Impis, I realized they are much better than I realized. An Impi is like a Chariot with Mobility (-1 movement cost so can basically cover 2 tiles over any terrain except a forested hill) that starts with Combat I thanks to Agg. Ikhanda (Barracks) is cheap...

Hello everyone. I'm playing the Earth16 map with Warlords and BTS civs only (the one Neal is using right now for his KOTW12 game). Note that I'm using the unmodified map where Asia is practically empty and I thought I wanted to have a nice easy game so I picked Korea which should have tons of...

I started a thread a while ago and I saw that there is general interest in a huge map series where people would play a game with a format like that of Noble's (or Monarch's) Club, but on a huge map with more opponents. So here we go. I didn't modify the map in any way. The rules are straight...

It is hard to grade this UU since it is not a military one. Most people on these forums from what I've seen agree it is good, but for some it is great and for others merely average. How many turns would this unit save you over the course of the game compared to a regular worker? Is it a...

I know many players on these forums play huge maps, but there has only been one challenge so far and it has been on deity, scaring away most players who would normally try it out. Would people be interested in a huge map series on like mid-level like Monarch? (I don't mind hosting it) Map...