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Vassals are such a nice source of free mana. Conquering neighbours completely is nce to do sometimes, but leaving them a nice little size 2 tundra town which povides them with nothing and you, the friendly and benevolent protector of their way of life, with three more or less random mana points...

One time I clicked the "don't close the door" option, and an actual werewolf spawned outside of one of my cities. It took a lot of doing to kill it. Needless to say, I've never clicked that one since. ;)

The Apostolic Palace makes it happen. The religion that gets it built into, gets the bonus. If that happens to be your state religion - so much better. :)

In my Always War games, horses are very useful. When those enemy stacks of doom appear, being able to flank-attack them and damage/destroy the siege weapons are paramount to keeping one's city defense above the zero. There's nothing to demolish your maginot line like siege machinery. So don't...

Two words: always war. That extra bit of defence is worth it when you are, litteraly, surrounded by enemies on all fronts.

I remember the olden days of Civ III, when it took forever to lift the population cap, and ICS (infinite city sprawl) was a very viable way to proceed indeed. You just couldn't work every tile of the fat cross with a single city... When I build cities, I try to build them in such a way that I...

As they say out there: lol! Good one! Sadly, I can't think of anything of my own to contribute with, so I can only applaud your effort.. ;)

You can blockade enemy cities from utilising water tiles and from trading with other cities by sea routes - and, if you use privateers, gain a few gold per turn by, well, privateering. :D

It is always a good idea to weaken them with siege weapons of your own. The more collateral damage on them, the better. Imagine a SoD filled with units carrying one strength each. Not too dooming, yet still somewhat scary. So, if you happen do have some knights or other unit within reach - send...

There is a situation where handing over units is a good thing, and that is when you eish to spread your shrine religion(s) into civs with whom you have open borders, and who has theocracy. Just march those preachermen into the heathen nation, donate them and watch them get to work... Well, you...

I was active some years ago, then stopped playing civ - and paying attention to these forums, as a consequence. So, when the fourth edition came out, I had a reason to come back and enter lurk mode. Most of my posts are from the olden days of long lost yore, but I'm still around. Which I...

I have that kind of computer. The game is playable for me, but the game tends to bug out/crash after a while. Probably due to the ATI card..

You can't.

I've had that as well. It disappeared when I un- and re-installed the game. Give it a try. Might work.

My word! Good one! Much effort must have been put into this one. Neat, nevertheless. :thumbsup:

When the river of names run dry, I usually find myself naming my new towns with names from my immediate geograohic surroundings. Which can produce quite funny messages, such as 'the aztecs have captured Dimbobaden' - a place which IRL is not even worthy of mentioning, unless you happen to live...

Yep. All you need is an embassy, and then it's just a matter of signing the papers...

9. Because nothing beats the feeling of winning a long, drawn-out war by marching a spearman (!) into the one major city of the enemy civ. :D

Some would have it that you win on the harder difficulty levels by _not_ building those wonders..

There is no such thing as a free lunch...