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    Bombardement order

    Hi. When you bombard a city (or it could also refer to an unit) does it change anything to bombard with the most powerful units first? Example: You bombard a city, you have 3 trebuchets and one upgraded with volley, and 3 crossbowmen one with volley. Which order you go if it changes anything...
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    Micromanaging specialist slots

    Hi. I'm a very long time user of civ. I'd consider myself a good player but I never micromanaged. I'd win without that. Now that I just won my first cultural victory on my first BNW with Poland i really loved the new artist/musician/writer thing. I decided to start looking at it, looked into...
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    World Congress and delegates

    Hi. I'm in my first BNW game (Huge-Marathon). It is my most bizarre game ever. I'm really struggling because not used to BNW and started alone on a 2 city island surrounded by ocean... I beelined to Astronomy. World Congress have just been founded and couldnt found much info other than the...
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    quick questions!

    When another civ come to tell you something They didnt like you did you have the choice of ''Get over it'' or ''I'm sorry I settled near your land.....'' or slightly different sentence depending on what you did. Is there any difference between those two ? Any diplomatic modifiers ? Last game...
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    Golden Horde Cartography Departement

    Our cities Babylograd Capital of the Golden Horde Kingdom. population 2 . Irrigated by the Russian River and founded in 4000 B.C. Coppack Second city of our Kingdom. population 1. Also on the Banks of the Russian River and a strange rocks that seems to be easy to work with! Our Kingdom
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    best race game on Xbox360

    I was waiting for Forza 3 but one of my colleague said it was really nothing (the Demo). He said new Need for Speed is way better and realistic. one of my friend has Grid and say its the best though he played Forza 2 with me only 2 races. there is also dirt 2 but that looks like the 1. I love...
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    national park confusion

    i dont know if its powerful. it says: No unhealthiness in this city from population Removes access to coal for this city +1 free specialist for each forest preserve in this city's tiles what happens to the square of coal in the city's radius. do i lose the 2-3 hammers? does the coal...
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    So i've won Cultural...

    i had been playing civ 4 since it came out and been dreaming of winning cultural. never really had the guts because i was in the lead before it was time to switch to culture (slider). I finally did. You know how much sometimes its better of dreaming of a thing . once you have it , it seems there...
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    black squares in mini-map

    since i've played civ 4 on my desktop i sometimes have a black square in my minimap. it followed me from warlords to BTS.it lasts until my until i close the game. it changes places somtimes...sometimes it takes half the globe...any idea people ?
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    Debts of nations

    They say that today nations are getting more and more into debts, economists say they are shoveling problems in front for the future generations. i"ve search on the matter on internet (my local librairy, google and wikipedia) about the debts of nations in the 1400's to 1700. didnt found anything...
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    i want to try being a vassal

    is there anyway or threshold so i can ask a civ to be their vassal and get that accepted. I still want to win but as a vassal. probably space ship or i dream of a cultural victory. I dont know how hard culture victory is. Do you only have to put the culture slider at 100% plus 2 or 3 wonders in...
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    Regicide

    I was wondering if it was possible to have a Regicide on BTS. Be it a mod or a way i never saw. I always play offline. also the inter site pitboss feature the rule that when you lose 2 cities you are eliminated. is that only possible online ?
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    how often do you change your capital ?

    its that simple... you can say why if you want. I only do it like once every 20 games I think
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    how to stop that Privateer plundering sound

    I have like 10 privateer plundering trade routes all around the world...its nonsense! i'll get crazy with all this sound.
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    Just bought BTS: few quick questions

    I've search the booklets, FAQ, civilopedia in the game didnt find my answer. Didnt even try the search...so hard... I constructed the apostolic palace, i won the election, I tought a pop up would come out like the U.N. ...waited until there'd been another vote which i won (3 times)...how do i...
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    AI wont settle on New World (continent)

    I played 3 times a custom game with the Earth v2 map generator that allow us to make new worlds. The AIs didnt settle in any of the 3 game before i won the game. I'm usually taking all the new continent to myself with those 10 big hammers cities. Why? is it because there is no real advantage...
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    My hands are already full right now

    or what ever is the real sentence. Louis (France) declared war on me 3 times in my game so I decided to bully him and ask him for money while i was getting my navy and transports near his Island. I was sure he would declare war on me because because it was written that ''my hands are full''...
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    anyone use the 45 degrees angle vision ?

    and/or does it serves any purpose to anyone ? I mean by that the CTRL+LEFT ARROW (or RIGHT ARROW)
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    How to maximize the Oracle?

    each time i build the oracle (yeah love industrious and chopping for) i always have the choice of a free tech which is usually iron working or Code of laws. Is there any way in the tech tree to get a better one after the oracle ?
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    when does a lake become a Sea with salt water

    in my current game my continent and my land is filled with what i was thinking was big lakes. but no i couldnt make irrigation. 1000 years later i found that a big one had fresh water. so my question. at how big does a lake stop being fresh water and start being a Sea?
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