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Have played to 550 BC, will post soon.

I agree with your complaints about peace vassals in gameplay terms, but immersion? It seems perfectly realistic to me for a smaller/weaker nation to pledge itself to a greater empire in exchange for protection -- as has happened many times throughout history. It doesn't really bother me when...

Haha whoops, forgot about that! :lol: There's iron in England though right?

Well that's certainly strong incentive to settle 1NE, and does change the "available land" dynamic significantly. I'll take votes on whether SA should be open or closed... though I'm still leaning toward closed considering my non-mastery of the difficulty and the challenge of the start. With a...

Thanks Fleme! Hehe, your map it is, though I'm really probably shooting myself dead with an open South America. Would you hold too big a grudge if I closed it again? Otherwise I don't really see myself beating the other civs to much land at all, unless you have any suggestions in this direction.

Not in a military sense, but Davíð Oddsson's economic policies before the crisis could be fairly described as Aggressive :) In the glory years of the early-mid 2000s, more and more companies were being purchased abroad, in a glorious march to bring all of the Western world under Icelandic...

If you could make the map for me I'd be very grateful, and will name a city after you if we ever manage to settle a second :P I want a normal Earth 18 with all the regular leaders in their normal places, with Darius (or Ragnar if need be) of the Vikings in the starting location above. Thanks a...

Hail and hello all! Today we embark on a journey requiring much pride and much hubris -- the task of bringing Iceland to glory on the Earth 18 map. Fortunately for us, if there is such hubris to be found anywhere on Earth, it is in the blood of the mighty Icelanders. Setting are Emperor...

I don´t really like rushing, just because it can potentially go wrong which kind of blows your game. I prefer peaceful expansion in general because I like my cities to bear the names of my civilization :)

Thankfully no, you didn't blow a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Egypt's UU is incredibly good and those nearby civs are easy to conquer with it whether or not barbarians beat you to it. In fact, as someone said not long ago, every action in Earth18 has consequences, so Arabia and Persia being...

Now now, he might be playing as Spain or simply have a lot of settled great generals...

Think it means they're building the associated wonder, in this case the Statue of Liberty.

Gosh. There is a TON of strategy to learn about this game, and a lot of its mechanics take a lot of getting used to and explanation to understand. I recommend reading other people's playthroughs that they post on this forum; they will (usually and hopefully) explain why they are doing certain...

Are they? I thought Quechuas get a bonus against archers and combat 1, do they get anything else? Ragnar's warriors will have combat 1 too since he's aggressive...

1N sure looks tempting to me.. I've never heard of too much food, I'd just prioritise Monarchy perhaps. Even more than the pig, all that riverside grass just looks beautiful for a Financial leader, and I'll take a stronger capital if I can get it since Beauracracy will be huge for that site and...

Just watched it. Your game is actually playing out similarly to mine, midieval warfare with elephants/trebs (though I'm using more Cho-ko-nus than trebs). As you've noted these games are super fun just cause you get to do such unconventional things -- I've never actually made much use of cho-kos...

Ah, haha. I wonder why that is (historically/realistically speaking that is.. what the explanation could be). EDIT: Figured it out... Probably a cabal of local citizens that feel more loyalty to the religion than their heathen overlords spreading state secrets to the faithful infiltrators. I...

Ever since moving up to Monarch (and higher), the only situations I'll go for the Oracle are: 1) Playing a wonderspam economy game (and even then I priortise other wonders over it, not sure if I've ever gotten it) 2) Playing Sumeria, just because there's real incentive to go down the religious...

Question about the espionage game: You're taking advantage of the state religion bonuses to espionage in a foreign city, but in my current game I'm running Buddhism and when I perform espionage in Buddhist cities, that bonus doesn't show up among the others (like -50% stationary spy etc.) Any...

Loving the game so far, in fact it inspired me to give the espionage economy a go, currently playing Mad's old Sneaky Mao Open RPC (remember that one?) :P