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I am curious on the opinion of other players on this. Assuming you are looking for war, and the AIs have dug in enough that bombardment and collateral damage are called for. * I'm only looking at this time frame. Potential gains from an earlier rush should not feature, but the ability to...

While worldbuiilder-testing the usefulness of UUs recently, I stumbled across something that made me slap my forehead and go 'why didn't I think of this before?'. Assume the following situation: you're Rome, there's a stack of Axemen approaching on flat terrain. Are you better off tackling them...

For a long time, I regarded windmills as a niche improvement... mostly used for marginal cities that couldn't grow to a decent size without, in the rare game where Environmentalism actually looked competitive compared to State Property or corporations under Free Market, or to get the FIN bonus...

The (otherwise awesome!) BUG mod displays a few consistent quirks on my system (Vista 64bit) with BtS 3.17. Installed into the mods folder: If I try to load an existing game first, there is no interface. If I return to the main menu via ESC and try to start a new game, the game hangs...

These two traits seem eminently comparable as they directly impact our budget. Judging from most comments and polls on these boards, Financial is widely considered the best traits while opinion is all over the place on ORG - it seems to have a small but dedicated following while a lot of players...

Does anyone else marvel at how much sense this often makes? 'After replacing many farms with workshops, Stalin made good use of the Kremlin by whipping his now starving specialists into factories and power plants. With Research Institutes soon available, tech rate remained impressive despite...

In my last game as Darius, I didn't expect to get very far... being smack dab in the middle of Suryavarman, Ghengis, Elizabeth and Hammurabi without any chance of rushing (in a non-suicidal way) or grabbing an adequate amount of land. At least being blocked in at a ridiculously early time meant...

This came up in another discussion, but I feel it's really worth its own thread. As a player, I normally go for long-term benefits if I can at all afford it, so I naturally wanted to know how many additional Great People Philosophical would give me in the long run. After I had a look at my...

I ran into something interesting in my last game as Sumeria. I shared the northern half of my home continent with Rome, China and Greece. After an apocalyptic battle between their respective UUs, Mao vassalised Augustus and the map looked a bit like this: CCCCCC CCCCCC RRGGGG RRGGGG...

I recently tried different economy setups for the late game and stumbled across an interesting dilemma: What economy type to run for a lategame cultural victory? I'm not referring to a 'Tech to liberalism, ignore research and celebrate how awesome your culture is until the rest of the world...

Inspired by another thread here, I thought long and hard about the viability of farm-based economies for the late game and tested some half-baked assumptions instead of blindly spamming cottages after the Liberalism Race unless I could win with what I had. Keeping a food-based economy sucks when...

In previous threads about best/worst Unique Units, I suggested quantifying the benefits in units that would apply to all: promotions. I finally got around to do this for all, with some interesting results. A few guidelines: Free promotions were, naturally, counted at face value, without...

As always in games that allow you to customise your faction, there's debates over the strongest and weakest options. Often, contention over who's best at any given aspect of the games, people will throw leaders into the equation whose traits/uniques simply can't be compared numerically. In those...

I'd be very surprised if I was the only one who felt the portrayal of some leaders was a little off; If you found something odd about certain people in the game I'd be interested in hearing about it. I'll kick off with the one I found most jarring: Frederick II of Prussia fought a series of...

Many things in Civ are clean and elegant, but there is one major gripe that detracts from the immersiveness: I feel robbed of valid choices, usually dastardly ones. For example, I should be able to... -abandon a vassal to their fate/absorb them the hard way -abuse open borders for a sneak...

Since I'm far better at the peaceful aspects of the game, I recently got into the habit of cramming a few more AIs into medium-sized maps to brush up my warmongering skills. In my current game gas Gandhi's Evil Twin, I'm stuck on a fairly small continent with Monty, Tokugawa and Gilgamesh...

Maybe someone more knowledgeable in the ways of the underlying code can tell. My experience with different leaders is very diverse: Hatshepsut always seems to put heavy emphasis on culture, even when I'm miles ahead of her. Tokugawa usually seems to not even try at all, being too backwards...

One of the most reviled feature of earlier Civilization games was the Infinite City Sprawl, which didn't stop until your part of the world was covered in concrete. Before the aera of corruption/global maintenance, dystopian hellholes were usually the best way to run things... if you didn't mind...

I've seen both enthusiasm and scorn with regard to this terrain. I used to regard them a strict blessing at first, but reconsidered when I actually thought about them: Every flood plain worked is a good tile (the additional food compared to grasslands cancels out or surpasses the health...

The thread title pretty much says it. What mistakes do you keep making over and over, when you really should know better by now? My most common ones seem to be: - Accidentally voting for Frederick in elections because that happens to be my name - Intending to delay a revolution after...