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I always thought city conquest should only be available after researching iron working. Until then its wars of harrasment. Now some people say early wars for land happened. But given how low in the world tech tree I am not sure the idea of national absorption was a fully developed human...

They still are better than calvary so if they come out at the same time as calvary how do they need a beefing?

As another poster I originally thought of standards for currencies and not named currencies. And I think as standards that you are on to something. Here is how I would work this rule. And it sounds fun: Every resource can be a standard for a currency. So for example clam standard, sugar...

I have been told its actually 1 gold for every unit not in your borders. I didnt test that assertion as it hasnt come up for me. But thats not a bad negative if you dont have a stack of death war going.

I really learned to love my airforce for a fast moving offense in the modern age. a "stack of air death" can bust a city down to know defense in one turn and doesnt have to move to it. Its nice around tanks since they dont have to wait for arty. That 50% btw is the difference between...

I ran out of time. I was just going for a win not a high score so the amount of future tech I got wasnt even in my strat. I one upped my capital settler farm like mad strategy and put both initial settlers on settlers once they hit size 2. I made mad cities across a huge chunk of turf. I did...

Just a few minutes ago I thought I am going to take one more shot at this HoF major before the deadline. So I set it up and brace myself for map regeneration. And low and behold the very first generation is ~INSANE~. There are 9 resource squares in my capital. And to top that off the...

"Quick is the main problem for me in this gauntlet but the nice thing about it is that it doesn't take long to lose." I soooooo respectfully disagree... It takes forever to loose on this gauntlet. In fact I think everyone would do themselves a favor if they just stopped if they werent...

I think the key to understanding the best way to set up the AI is to understand why an AI would vote for you to win in a diplomatic victory. Clearly voting for you to win is the worst move in terms of pursueing victory possible. So why would an AI do it? I think a properly structured AI...

The reason I go after rifling is cavalry is so darn annoying and nothing in your list will have an easy time against them. You mention the unit that rock/scissors/papers riflemen but you dont mention the unit that riflemen trumps themselves. The AI isnt very good at exploiting it but because...

Have you ever tried playing wrong? I have a friend and I always kick my friends ass at new games because I adapt faster. And my trick is one that I picked up studying chess, often times I will do something because I am sure it is wrong. Ill ask myself what is the best move and I will do...

"but the truth is, at the rate of taxation the U.S. has, the government would actually increase its income by reducing taxation." Da truth! I actually find that hard to believe. The problem with the theory is taxed money is still spent money. Its sooo complicated to just go if we lower...

Undermining the case to go to war doesnt make the case to leave. Your living in the past. Nobody was more antiwar then I was. I can point out forum post from the day of the war that say there will never be a democracy in iraq. BTW the original case of invasion wasnt entirely WMD part of...

"However, good luck with Windows. Do please get your protection systems in place" I actually havent bothered with a virus checker and firewall in a long time simply cause I stopped having any issues. I think the use of autoupdater is when I really stopped having any issues. Prior to...

I had to go to an earlier archery in general for monarch after a half dozen horrible barbarian events interspaced between games. I said to myself "you know... not getting an early archery is why the barbarians are doing this to me" So I build zero warriors and head straight to archery now...

Im curious if you selected always peace knowing its going to make winning a spacerace in OCC harder. It helps if people are fighting. As far as is it possible? Sure but one thing about OCC space race wins it matters alot who your AI opponents are. I have no idea if a ghengis khan will turn...

"Do you think American troops are better prepared than other countries? Have you seen how these poor souls have been doing in Iraq? Maybe Nazi Germany's soldiers were better than average, maybe Israeli soldiers... But America's?" "If morality and other issues escape any debate then it is just...

Right and wrong is not the topic of the thread though its been hijacked. I dont even care about right and wrong in the context of the thread. What I care about is stuff like someone saying that Iraq is evidence of weakness. Thats crazy. Is there another army occupying a country 10k miles away...

I have to ask... how many of these leaders werent charismatic? I know a few but come on its like a prerequisite to even make the list. So I mean to be charismatic on this "short list" you would have to be uber insane charismatic. I think alexander for example was off the charts on normal...

hehe someone else that noticed tanks are all wrong in this game. Curious do you have experience with tanks? I was an m1a1 crewmember when I was a young man (10 years ago) so thats why I noticed. Though I would distinguish between attacking into hills and defending in hills. The reason is...