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Here's a super cheap trick to find out who your opponents are early! On turn 2, attempt to rename your capital "Rome", "Moscow", "London" etc, working your way through every Civ. The ones that do not let you do it are your opponents, who have already founded a city with that name. Won't...

When my mounted units are attacking an enemy city, I don't get any flank attacks on the defending siege units. Is this normal? Nothing in the Civilopedia etc mentions that flanking shouldn't work in cities. Screen shots before and after attack: I'm running BTS 3.17 + Solver +...

I checked up on these guys every 1000 years or so. They sure have a crap life. "Nothing to do, nothing to do... getting cold... nothing to do..."

oops wrong forum... sorry moved it to here http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=300064

Hi - I did a search of the consolidated bug list and couldn't find this on there. I'm playing a game with all victory conditions disabled (ie. only a points win is possible). I cannot build the Apostolic Palace. It doesn't appear as an option on the city build screen. (I have Theology, I...

We all know Huayna Capac is a bit of a wondermonger... here is what happened when he started with stone in the BFC, plus three food resources, horses, and three hills. 15 wonders! :eek: I started on a different landmass, with Shaka and Monty as neighbours... so as you can see it took...

Does anyone know why uranium is not appearing in my city's list of strategic resources here? The uranium tile is mined and railroaded. I'm getting the corresponding commerce bonus from the tile. But no "strategic" hookup. Is it because uranium is of no strategic use (as a building...

I have a couple of questions... :) A city needs to be placed on a river in order to build a levee, right? And does a Dutch city have to be on both river AND coast to build a dyke? Or just on a river? Or either one? And if just a river is enough, do the coast tiles get the extra...

Strategic planning for national wonders is one of my weak points... I always forget to specialise my cities and end up making last minute decisions. This time I wanna get it right :D Trouble is - I have THIS city. :king: It's so good I don't know what to put there. I need...

Can anyone explain how Surya got a work boat into my city (Domitus) here? (Note carefully the screen shots, there is a Khmer work boat inside my landlocked city! Last turn I saw him move it into the lake tile, and back into my city). I add that I have not built any forts (canals) anywhere...

Has anyone ever tried to help the Barbs develop? I'm thinking about it. I'm playing OCC and I have the Great Wall, so the Barbs leave me alone. I'm quite friendly with all my rivals (for now), but naturally I'm looking for sneaky ways to cripple them. :mischief: There's spying, of course...

A quick question - Does AI "know of" all the game settings and change its behaviour based on them? Especially map type - knowing the basic map type affects my early game strategy a lot. Do the AI know when they are on an archipelago map and should beeline galleys? Or Pangea, and not...

I like this BTS feature, it makes the early rush'n'raze strat a bit more complicated. But in my latest game I razed a pathetic French city, size 2, which had been defended by a single archer. The French had hooked up metals one turn earlier. Hey presto it spawned FOUR axemen as partisans right...

Here is a brief summary of one of the shortest games I have ever played. :lol: It was interesting enough that I reloaded to the start to take some screenshots and post them. Was I correct in abandoning it? There may have been a way out of this incredible dilemma that I didn’t see… any ideas...

I'm debating whether or not to build this AP thing in my current game. The civilopedia entry is not entirely clear on how it all works, and I can't tell if this cheeky strategy will work or not: I rule an entire massive continent of Jewish cities, and the other continent is all Buddhist (two...

It always struck me as really odd that Cannons require the tech steel, rather than being available at gunpowder. I was hoping BTS might change this (I think I like the change to cavalry though) but it doesn't. Nor does the latest patch... perhaps someone with more history on the forums can...

During a recent cultural victory game I realised (way too late) that the 100% cultural slider tactic is MASSIVELY powerful! Almost too powerful... (When in reality does any government turn every penny it earns into culture?) Anyway, it occurs to me that it can also be big when warmongering if...

Immigration is a huge aspect of the real world that is absent in Civ. I'd do it like this. Immigration (internal and external) can be allowed if a certain civic is in place. Emancipation and free market should both allow immigration to occur, I would guess. There are two...

Hi all! I'm new to the forums. Hope someone can help with some advice. (Civ IV vanilla) I know the basics of trade networks - must connect cities to capital by road/river (early game) and later you can also connect by coast (with sailing) and ocean (with astronomy) etc etc. My first...