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Can someone explain exactly how flanking bonuses work? Do you get these automatically or do you have to have that one policy in honor that increases combat strength by 15% when a friendly unit is adjacent? Also how does the stacking work? I was being overrun by gandhi's stupid elephants so I...

Does anyone play many later era starts? All of my civ games are usually decided by the industrial era- around rifles and liberalism- and are always won by gaining a tech lead. Sometimes I'm behind in land and production but trade around some techs, research rifles or steel and make a land...

Since there's a lot of ranking and trait discussion going on I thought I'd add a little flavor. Discussing traits is fun, as it's one of the few things you can control and pre plan. But I'd like to go one step further and talk about leaders combined with a traits discussion, as these are...

Obviously how many cities you can support varies depending on the map, how much room you have, resources and terrain, your leader and other factors. But I have been having difficulty on standard size maps (I usually play on large or huge maps) with overexpanding too quickly. Come 1AD I usually...

to rush someone? I just played two games that both ended quickly. Fredrick in both, large terra map, 15 opponents. On the first I started with 3 seafood and horses and mao about 15 tiles away. He was in my way cus I was on a penisula of sorts so I whipped 7 chariots and attacked him. All of them...

Hello forum junkies. I've posted a couple times here but this will be my first game played on the forums and I wanted to showcase a mapscript I've come to love. I found a very cool map script called Full of Resources. I've played many games using this script and find them to be more fast pace...

Is there a list somewhere of all the possible great persons names? No civilopedia entries for them, but when my great people pop and their names are something other than moses and marco polo, I'm usually intrigued and look up some background on them online. I am very curious what all the...

I love reading the articles in the civilopedia. Maybe I'm kind of a nerd. I enjoy reading wikipedia and random history books too. It's interesting to get civ's take on some things like the victorian english empire or early bronze age metal working. I've probably only read about 1/8th of the...

I know, I know, the whole se vs ce vs hybrid has been beaten to death, and those terms quite theoretical. But how do you personally decide when to build a farm and run a scientist versus cottaging the tile? I generally just run specialists off food resources. To decide what to farm I count...

I want to play a more challenging game without upping the difficulty. I usually play monarch, have won a couple emperor games but not with consistency. My question is, are certain leaders always more/less challenging to you or is it more dependant on where the map places them? For example...

Do you ever see a resource and groan? Sometimes you want that silk or sugar resource badly for happiness for your empire, but the resource itself sucks as a tile and you end up with a crappy little city to collect it. Resources I feel are on the weak side as far as tile yields: Wine - Farm...

Ghengis really lived in the 12th century, and although his keshiks were feared for their use of bows like horse archers, they went up against chinese pikemen and crossbows and won a lot of battles. Historically they seem more like knights to me, they fought around that time period and against...

I have won only a couple games on emperor, so really consider myself a monarch player. I tried the 40 civs mod thinking "this will be fun" and started a huge hemispheres map with 25 civs on monarch and it was much harder than other monarch games I've played. My conclusion is the more civs meant...

I know you can have two watermills on the same section of river, but sometimes I have an L shaped river and place one mill on the inside of the L and the icon shows on the southern river, yet I can't build another mill on the western side of the river. However sometimes it lets me build on that...

My diplomacy screen shows mansa as the worst enemy of practically everyone- he's the heathen Islamic and we're all Buddhist- but I just traded a bunch of techs with him and didn't get a negative modifier with anyone for it. Do you have to do open borders and/or resources to get the traded with...

Hello all, I'm playing a terra map and ended up in the "new world" where it's just me and hatshepsut and roosevelt. So naturally the "old world" founds most of the religions, ends up all buddy buddy and tech trades to an easy lead. I've finally caught up but it seems that every time one of...