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I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was making some sort of joke about milk (and therefore eventually cheese) coming from a cow's udders. I dunno.

You might have a point if we actually knew one way or another whether there is a diplomatic penalty for remaining at war in this way. I haven't experienced diplomatic problems from using this tactic, and if there is a diplo penalty, it probably applies only to the states that have diplomatic...

I have never noticed any diplomatic problems coming from this strategy, but then again, I only tend to do it when I have a civilization encircled early in the game (either the first or second civ I conquer). It may be that the reason I am not taking diplo hits for continuing war is that the civ...

I have recently stumbled upon an interesting strategy for dealing with defeated enemies in early wars. This is an offshoot of the common strategy of taking an enemy's capital and leaving him with one small city in order to avoid the diplomatic penalty of exterminating a civ. Basically, the...

While I agree with you about Pisa, it is but one of a number of questionable "wonders" in the game. The Pentagon and the Louvre are surely questionable, as well.

I'm pretty sure the Monty AI is coded to go for a cultural victory if it doesn't think it can win domination. Not sure exactly how the script works, but if Monty is on his fallback victory path, then I can see him taking Freedom. Strange, though.

Looking at that first screenshot of your game, and holy crap, Cape Town next to you looks like its on a river and has got two wine, truffles and a marble within the three tile radius. I have never seen such a well-placed CS, and although I rarely recommend this under normal circumstances, this...

Well, you only want to open Honor if you're planning on going further down the policy tree, as a pure wasted SP is inefficient. But if that's already the plan, then the Honor opening is definitely good. The amount of culture you can generate from farming barbs is not to be underestimated...

Alhambra 22 Big Ben 23 Brandenburg Gate 20 Chichen Itza 23 CN Tower 12 Colossus 19 Cristo Redentor 21 Eiffel Tower 23 Forbidden Palace 20 Great Firewall 5 Great Library 22 Great Lighthouse 20 Great Mosque of Djenne 20 Great Wall 11 Hagia Sophia 20 Himeji Castle 20 Hanging Gardens...

The Aztec UA works better the higher up the difficulty latter you go, because the AI will throw more and more units at you. At king, I'm not at all surprised that you'd win domination first. What you did with building a core army and then investing mostly in culture is the right way to do...

Alhambra 21 Angkor Wat 10 Big Ben 20 Brandenburg Gate 20 Chichen Itza 20 CN Tower 20 Colossus 18 Cristo Redentor 20 Eiffeltower 21 Forbidden Palace 20 Great Firewall 21 Great Library 21 Great Lighthouse 20 Great Mosque of Djenne 20 Great Wall 20 Hagia Sophia 20 Himeji Castle 20...

The Honor opener and progress at least to Military Caste is extremely useful in pretty much any strategy other than turtling. The opener generates a shocking amount of culture in the early game if you're halfway good at killing barbarians, and Military Caste is among the single best policies in...

It seems that a lot of people underrate the value of the Honor opener in general, but especially for the Aztecs. Open Tradition, take Legalism, and then open Honor and start raking in the culture from killing barbarians. Seriously, I cannot emphasize this enough. If you have any interest in...

Freedom is unquestionably the better industrial age tree here. I was joking a bit by suggesting Autocracy. That would be just over the top, and I suspect you'd end up winning domination before you'd complete the dystopia project by going that route. Rationalism should be opened as soon as...

I should probably clarify: The Aztec cultural strategy which focuses on Honor and Rationalism is not for the faint of heart, because it basically hinges on the idea that you are constantly fighting aggressive wars with your neighbors, killing their units and reaping the culture from doing so...

If you're going cultural with the Aztecs, you're pretty much warmonger raging for the entire game. The cultural bonus from military caste allows you a net cultural gain from puppets even though they otherwise won't build culture, and trust me, having a terrifying and highly upgraded army in...

You take it as a given that all cities will have build a world wonder?! What difficulty settings are we talking here? There is a lot to be said for teching faster, no matter the victory condition. Especially at the higher difficulty levels, the biggest difficulty in cultural victory is that...

I think you are imagining it. Units are tougher in G&K. They take damage more slowly, and so the effects of Bushido will be harder to notice because generally your units won't be quite as banged up as they were in the past. But I'm not certain. They could have changed somewhat the damage...

Going for cultural victory with Montezuma can be pretty amuzing, and is actually quite efficient when you get to the higher levels due to the number of enemy you will be facing and therefore the amount of culture you will suck from them. I'd say that the Aztecs are actually the easiest (and...

DS: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh? AdS: It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.