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Thanks for the insight in your first point...about triremes...I hadn't thought about that in the conext of NWs and an archipelago map.... Of course, if Kamehameha is in the game you're probably SOL.... :) The Conquistadors are great for that purpose...if you have to hard-build one it doesn't...

The poll results are what I expected.... Unlike in Vanilla and G&K, in BNW I seldom even build them and I can't even remember any recent games where the AI have used them...I've been "threatened" on occasion, though... Almost all of my victories are cultural or diplomatic and I'm able to...

Yes ...good advice...though sometimes you can wait in vain for the AI to finish off some AI one-city annoyance. Sometimes you just have to soak up the warmonger penalty....which isn't always a big problem particularly if it looks like you're going to have to "warmonger" several of the AI anyway...

I'm not sure "crippling his economy" will always yield logical results....I've reduced AI civs to one miserable little tundra city and they still seem to manage to be a nuisance at the WC....sometimes you just have to try to destroy them if nothing else looks like it will work...and to heck with...

Heh, heh...I guess that's a good way to explain it... The game certainly seems to reward you if you show "intestinal fortitude" early in the game.... I suppose in reality what is probably going on is a simple algorithm....you have whittled down their army to the point that they are...

Seems the main provocation is seeing an AI settler where you don't want to see them...;) Yes, I agree... And if I have a warmonger close by I now routinely prepare for an early war. If the AI capital is within six hexes, I may even...situational, of course...grab the Honour GG and put a...

The ones I notice that seem fairly consistently not to do so well in the hands of the AI are Mongolia and Brazil...and often the Dutch... In some situations any of the AI can do poorly. The Mongols were one of my favourites in G&K...I still like them, but in the hands of a human player, they...

Well...Attila is Attila....if he's close he's a problem.... but he is flaky..... You just have to grind him down and then he becomes a coward... :) In my current game I found a choice site for my second city quite close to him...... and the best spot was a flat grassland tile.... What to...

Oh yes....from "pressure"...not from Missionaries or Great Prophets.... It's happened to me too....

I've had it happen on Turn 2 (rare) with two back-to-back religious CSs... And I've had really early Pantheons (under 6 turns) even before founding my capital...while using my settler to explore for a Natural Wonder while playing as Spain....

Yeah...this war-monger penalty really needs some work. The basic idea is fine, but it needs to be nuanced. I know this topic has been discussed ad nauseum, but anyway... In my current game...really peaceful....and I mean REALLY PEACEFUL...no wars for me at all until, just before I got...

I understand perfectly...Spain is my "hands down" favourite. Getting those great cities going with wonders like LV and KSM, maybe Uluru... ...it is just so much fun...... I tend to roll and re-roll until I get an interesting combination of wonders to work with.... KSM with its 12 production...

Well... from what I remember, "demin" ...the fabric... was invented in Nimes in southern France.... ....de Nimes.... But because of the directness of your comment I thought I had better check.... According to wiki the first denim trousers were made in Genoa and hence the origin of the word...

It seems, at least at some points in the game, having a reasonably strong military might be a better strategy than paying them off. In one recent game where I was accumulating faith points very quickly and had "Holy Warriors", I neglected to cash in for a few military units before the game...

Greece Rome China Portugal England Spain..... I think these kinds of polls are difficult...you pretty much have to carefully lay out your assumptions. If I knew more about some of the really ancient civilizations, I would probably suggest that Greece was "sitting on the shoulders of...

Heh, heh.... Yeah, I've had those games... They're exciting right up to the point you suddenly realize no one can touch you any more...it's just a matter of who you are going to take on next. In some games, unless a city has some choice wonders in it, it just becomes a tedious chore taking it...

My latest game is one of the more interesting I have had....and it is still far from over. Playing as Spain...my favourite... I actually found KSM fairly quickly, 500G...a reasonable, though not great, coastal location. And I think it was the next move I met Attila...Oh boy, I thought...

Good points ...and I particularly like the last one....as Venice....when I play as Venice...grabbing CSs from Alex, or Ram....those megapoint-influence CSs they seem to be able to get so early in the game... There is something decidedly "schadenfreude" about it .. :) When I have Alex in a...

Yeah....Alex....if he is close I just assume that I'm going to go to war with him and I prepare....I'll even try to place a city as close to Athens as possible if it'll result in a productive city. And if he isn't quick enough about DOWing...I'll DOW him, then let him come to me....and...

Yeah...that would be nice...most of the time...not always...but most of the time...if I'm challenged about my troops and I just start the war. I'm going to do it anyway at some point and I just suck up the short run problem of starting the war before I'm fully ready. Even more annoying is...