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    Best Earth 18 Start for SE?

    Personally, 95% of my non-OCC games are either Earth or the Archipelago script. I find Civ 4's random continents come out as uninteresting blobs of land, which are deathly dull to conquer and only somewhat more fun to peacefully settle. It's so much more rewarding to measure my progress by what...
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    Tech-race at Nobel-level: pro-help needed

    For the Nobel tech race, you want to beeline to Dynamite. Getting there first will give you a special Great Engineer who can endow a committee in a city with an Academy that will attract five Great People every turn.
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    Why do the pyramids do that?

    Granaries for all Egypt is actually what most medieval people really thought the Pyramids had been built for. If you go to Venice, you can still see a 12th century mural of the Biblical Joseph using them for that purpose. Considering how utterly central the monarchy was to Egyptian ideology...
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    King of the World #7: ????

    Move up to Emperor, but play Persia with a maximally efficient rush (Persia over Rome because you've been squeamish about opening warrior rushes in Europe :lol:).
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    Which leaders would be offensive?

    The Hitler ban is just one of those parochial things you have no hope of arguing. If the designers were Indian, Stalin would be the most objectionable leader. :p
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    Civs You'd Like to See

    What would be the point of Canada? Why not just play England and regenerate to get a tundra start?
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    Top 10 Unrestricted Leaders/Civilizations?

    A Pro leader is wasted on Ethiopia: unrestricted leaders is all about getting to Agg Oromos as fast as you can, so I like Alexander. Hammurabi of the Zulus has amazing synergy with a domination victory. Half-price ikhanda gives you melee units with two immediate promotions, half-price...
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    Poll: How to fix the Jaguar?

    The problem with the Jaguar is that it never should have been unlocked by Ironworking. Believe it or not, the Aztec state never learned how to work iron, or even bronze, and they still had these units called jaguar warriors... If the Jag was like the Quechua, and the Inca had an axe or spear...
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    The legendary Montezuma

    ... that's absolutely brilliant. I'm so going to follow the thoroughly passive-aggressive route in my next game. :lol:
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    The legendary Montezuma

    I learned how to treat Monty by playing a game on the Earth18 map where I was still putting too much emphasis on wonders. I established a junk city next to the stone in the US Southwest as part of making a swath of cultural border across the continent to box him in. I hook up the stone, and on...
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    Civs You'd Like to See

    That ship already sailed the day Civ IV was released. "Gandhi converts to Islam!" :(
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    Confess Your Goofy Leader Nicknames!!

    Mansa Musa = Man's a Moocow Huyana Capac = Hyena Tupac Genghis Khan = Dsching! Dsching! Dschinghis Khaaaan! He liked the ho but then he liked the Hindu...
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    Poll: Best Leader Facial Hair

    Pirates with fiery bears? GAME OF THE CENTURY! :D
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    Return to "My Idea for a new Civ feature"

    See, this is precisely why UUs should be tied to nationalities and not individual guys. This "German problem" would be repeated with MOST civilizations... what was the special unit that gave Egyptians an advantage on the battlefield during the reign of Ramesses II vs. the reign of Hatshepsut?
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    Anyone Played Real World Map 18 Civs

    I think there should be a Hall of Fame column for each victory type on the Earth map. Yes, it's very different from not knowing where the resources and choke points are outside the 3 gems plains hill start you whipped up with Mapfinder, but getting an earlier victory than anyone else is no less...
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    What's the best time to conquer?

    I'm not an expert, but a super early rush seems like so much better of an investment. As a Prince player, I can reliably get capitals for 70 hammers each if I get quick copper, no more than triple that if the walk is fairly long (like sending axes to Russia as a European civ on Earth). It's a...
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    Your favourite unique unit

    Due to the way the AI plays, the ideal UU for single-player is very early (replaces Warrior, Archer for a civilization that starts with Hunting, Axeman for one that starts with Mining Chariot for one that starts with two of Agriculture/Hunting/Wheel, or Spearman for one that starts with...
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    New Civilization - More Enviroment based game?

    It would make a more authentic game (think Minoans, think the Harappan civilization economy crashing when their second most-important river dried up), but gamers generally hate being punished by random events.
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    March-based promotion strategy

    Building a Heroic Epic/Red Cross city and having a GG build a Military Academy there could get you a whole lot of units who can take March as their first promotion.
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    Adequate # of cities

    It depends on victory condition. I think the most efficient way to win a cultural victory is only 8 cities on huge maps (6 on standard) for 2 cottaged cathedral cities, 1 National Epic food city running Sistine-powered artists, and 5 to build temples and units. 8-on-huge should also be enough to...
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