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I loved this map in Civ4. It's a comfort to have it around again! A friend of mine likes to play Inca and noticed that there's a lot of mountains without hills nearby. Normally we think of the two of them going together most of the time. I tried tweaking some of the values but couldn't really...

Definitely some good things to think about. I gotta make use of this minor city idea. =)

Would you want to keep playing your civ if you knew your situation was hopeless and you were just going to be a helpless slave for your master civ? Maybe you would give them a finger and fight till the end. It's reasonable. Think about it, you're not even allowed to have your palace mana...

Absolutely. I often get attached to AIs that don't act like pricks. Making them a vassal is the best answer because then you can make sure they don't do anything foolish. Sometimes you need to "convince" them with strong arm tactics, but that's their fault, not yours.

You can already do that by summoning Mistforms.

Don't forget that recon units also get defensive bonuses where horsemen do not. Still, I was also thinking it doesn't quite fit that faster units can pillage while hunters can't. Recon units have a penalty against attacking cities too, which seems to lend it more to a pillaging role - which it...

I did that too, but even though I skip the opening movie when you start a game I noticed I missed that loud rumble music you hear right away. So I reinstalled it just for that. :mischief:

I'm just curious why recon units can't pillage. Is there a flavor or mechanic/balance reason for it?

I think I may need to just cut back on the number of upgraded troops that I use. I want to avoid your option #3 if possible, and I also want to avoid beelining for +gold techs because then I'm not getting the other techs I wanted to prioritize in the first place. The city sprawl idea sounds...

I'm looking at upgrade paths such as Disciple of Leaves -> Ranger with Heal 1 + March. Expensive, but produces a superior unit than if you just build a Ranger from scratch. I didn't think about using specialists for cash and that's much better than building wealth.

FFH has a lot of interesting upgrade paths for units, but unfortunately that route can be expensive in terms of gold costs if your plan is to build & promote regularly. Are there any good strategies for affording this kind of strategy without hurting your research too badly? I was thinking...

That's perfect; something usable no matter what kind of land I've got. From the description the spell sounds helpful, but not as good as this.

Yeah, I do like fire as well, it's fun. However, I want to keep an eye out for other strategies in case for some reason I can't get my hands on any fire mana or just to be flexible in mana choices. I'm also worried about fire resistant or immune enemies. I usually play Svartalfar so air mana...

Are there any other good siege alternatives for elves besides fire mana? Fireballs can bombard walls and both fireballs and fire elementals do collateral damage. It seems like a "must have". Shadowwalk can get you past the defense bonus from buildings, but you still have to deal with the...

It would be cool to see more of those "spell buildings" to cut back on micromanagement. Autobuffing for spells like poison blade, enchant weapon, etc. I was really a huge magic fan at first but now all the micromanaging with levelling up the mages and casting all those spells... I'm not using...

Ok, then that's probably what happened. My mistake. I guess I can ease my depression. Heh.

I wasn't aware that Mistforms (or any summon) could pillage? That would be quite interesting. I was 99% positive that the Djinn I summoned last night "Can not be seen by most units" or something like that. I'll have to double check.

I noticed some summons like the Djinn and Mistform have invisibility. Is this supposed to be something good? The only effect I see is that your summon will be ignored on the defense so you can't use it to guard any of your units. I'm not even sure it would be helpful with the Summoner trait...

Well I tried the Raider economy a little last night, and indeed I racked up a few thousand gold from pillaging every single tile I could get my hands on (heh heh). It felt a bit exploitive with the current AI (patch j) though as their large stacks of units were avoiding my lone mounted units...

I don't like to upgrade from Drown -> Stygian because they keep the weakness to fire that way. I guess it's not really a big deal but I'd rather build them from scratch.