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I find surrendering my credit card to work Damned if it isn't expensive though.

What irks me is that most of the most critical issue are the "whoops, somebody pressed the wrong button" kinda ****ups, like with broken airsuperiority and suchforth... surely they HAD it working originally, some trigger is broken, you fix it easy. There are hardly any of the more difficult...

I've just learned to never, ever, give away my world map.

But they do lack compared to the Romans. The legion is a unit that can both take AND hold.

Russia rocks. I've switched to them frm playing romans, and they really agree with me. Plus my great-uncle was commander of the Moscow Tank Academy so it's in my blood. And cossacks are brilliant - I think the best UU, with competition coming only really from the hoplite, immortal and Panzer...

Somebody please give me an example of a complex strategy game with a complex AI that is flawless, that I might join the carping hordes who have declared this game a fetid pile of feces which degrades and insults them by its mere existence. Thank you.

I can't believe you said with a straight face that the AI in Civ2 was on par with that in Civ3. I have checked out other games besides Civ3. And believe me, the AI usually sucks, and usually (in games like C&C) it has the advantage of having its bases already built and therefore having half...

I like militaristic. I go for constant campaigning and the great leaders this (usually) produces allows you to rush build a whole lot o wonders.

Greeks rule if you can expand in the early game, otherwise they're pretty screwed cuz they're not so good at the offense. Otherwise, Romans. I prefer bequething the Pax Romana to the inferior civs and barbarians to all this nancing about philosophizing, anyways.

Warandpeace: Please provide the class with an example of an AI in a strategic game that is up to your high standards and doesn't cheat. Please, in your wisdom, advise the Firaxis programmers on the marvellous AI routines you have developed that put theirs to shame. They might even employ you...

Yup. For some reason, to be a succesful militaristic civ in the modern age you have to have the UN before any of the peaceniks can get their hands on it... I hate the way the vote is final. You should have the option of repudiating it, but in that case all the other civs ally and declare...

Great story.

If Beijing is capable of being bombarded, I assume it is near the sea... time for a devastating sneak naval invasion?

What about Teddy Roosevelt? That man had PRESENCE

I agree. With espionage, you either have the choice of doing something the diplo way, or using spies and for a thousand times the cost and a chance of an incident.

Perhaps... some catapults/cannon? An army? More knights? better trained knights?

Yeah, I think UN is wayyyyy too powerful... I think it should be more like the MOO2 system with supreme leader, votes based on population, and if the AIs vote one of their own as supreme leader, you can refuse to recognise it, but all the enemy civs immediately ally and declare war on you.

Screw Colonel Kurtz, give me Colonel Kilgore! "Listen son, you either surf or fight, that's the plan here!" "Yeah, I play Wagner. It scares the hell out of the slopes. My boys love it!." "This is Big Duke 6 to all units, assume attack formation. Put on Psy War op, make it loud." "You...

How did you win? Diplo or cultural or spaceship or what?

Fact is, North American Indians were settlers until the arrival of spanish horses, when they became nomads, because they were now capable of following the great buffalo herds as opposed to just attacking them as they passed by.