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It's pretty obvious that the puppet vs. annex equation is wrong at the moment. Let's look at the pros and cons of each: puppet pros: doesn't increase SP cost same unhappiness as settled city generally build useful buildings (happiness and culture) when they are needed cons: can't...

I just realized what a potent force for happiness nukes are. Yes, you heard me right: nukes make your citizens happy. Very happy. In particular, people who get nuked are much happier than similarly situated citizens who have not been nuked. Let's say you are in an annoying war with Siam...

Playing an emperor game with the balance - combined mods. Around turn 315, I get a notification that Budapest has completed The Manhattan Project. Really?!?!? I didn't know that CS could build projects. Does this mean that theoretically a CS could build all the spaceship projects, launch the...

Playing a game on pangea/emperor/standard and using the balance-combined mods (some of them). Anyway, I get off to a bit of a slow start with Hiawatha: limited iron, bad location, few lux, no nearby neighbors to conquer, etc. Plus some suboptimal play on my part. I finally get things...

Call me strange, but I'm starting to enjoy the insane "diplomacy" exhibited by the other civs. Now I piss them off intentionally, just to get some interesting action going. Currently playing a game as China, pangea, emperor. Took out France and Germany early. Rome is near me where Germany...

Just playing my first game as Askia (emperor, pangea). I held off playing him because I wasn't impressed on first looking at him, and I haven't seen a lot here touting his power. But, I really have been pretty impressed with his usability, certainly for certain play styles. By way of...

So I am in the midst of a massive battle with Germany after invading their continent. Germany owns about 75% of the territory there. Although I have a good tech lead now (I just hit mech inf and they just hit infantry), if I don't gut them now, with their huge population (4 times my own), they...

I've had the chance to play through a few times. Won on Warlord and worked my way up to a win on Emperor (with Hiawatha) - all domination wins. Then I hit a wall. Play two games on Emperor and King on a bit bigger map than standard. Played the way I had played the early games - very...