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Life got in the way of playing some time after G&K. So now I'm retired and I came back and picked up BNW first thing. I decided to drop back to King while I was getting my feet wet. So, I start a game and I'm doing okay, mid-pack, but it's often just a matter of catching up. Early in the...

Playing as Morocco I was gifted a Merchant of Venice some time after filling the Patronage policy tree. Though I was accustomed to being gifted other civ's UUs this was a first. Grabbing a nearby powerhouse militaristic CS would give me a great advantage in pouncing on Odo's capitol so I...

I became suspicious when, after downloading G&K I had Steam verify my local file cache and two files failed verification. I was suspicious because I had done the verification when the patch was released earlier and that time one file failed verification. Out of curiosity, I renamed my Civ 5...

Playing G&K as Carthage on King level, currently in Renaissance, and my latest GE died of attrition. He'd only spawned three turns earlier. A Composite Bowman died of attrition on the same turn. Say what? Happiness is at 19 Culture is at 890 ( per turn)+47 Goldpile is at 267 (+64 per turn)...

Still experimentinng so in my last game I avoided founding a religion. Took the Pantheon and then used Great prophets to build Holy Sites. I built Faith buildings only when there was nothing more pressing to build. The irony: I took every last CS Faith quest without a religion. One finally...

Pre G&K, a big part of my strategy was to build the largest early game gold pile I could in order to have mass amounts of gold on hand to spend on allying CS when I opened Patronage. The food, resources, culture or units and occasional GPs more than repaid my investments. Post G&K I've...

Playing as Carthage on a Tiny Islands map. I build a couple of Quinqueremes (Carthage's UU replacement for the Trireme) and send them off exploring. It doesn't take long to find an ocean side Barb camp. "Ah," thinks I, "this Conquered is a Naval Melee unit so I'm going to punish that camp."...

Late Renaissance, Epic game speed, Harald Bluetooth DoWs on me. One of my allied CS is on Harald's southern border and it DoWs on him. Harald and I slug it out for a few turns and, when it becomes clear that I have the advantage, Harald offers peace on very favorable terms. I accept. So far, so...

No two ways about it; the unit animations in Civ V are great - the first few times. I believe, though, that they're one of the main reasons for late game, or early game on a large or huge map, slowdown. I'd like to have the option under the Advanced tab of the game setup to turn off unit...

I've been playing a lot of water maps lately and one of the things that jumped out at me is that that the Ironclad is, was (Since it showed up in, I believe CiIII) the one unit that almost no one ever builds more than once. As the only Industrial Age naval unit it deserves to be something...

Like the title said; Polynesian Triremes and Ironclads can safely use ocean tiles. I've been playing Polynesia a lot lately and in one game I gave a Trireme a move order to an adjacent island. I thought that it would hug the coastal tiles as usual. Instead it beelined right across some ocean...

I searched for a mod element that would enable me to turn off unit animations. I believe that doing so would speed up turn times on Standard>Large>Huge maps. If such a mod exists I'd appreciate a link. Otherwise, there are many of us who would appreciate such a mod. Thanks!

Does anyone know exactly how military strength is calculated in CiV? Is it unit strength X number of units or... It would be nice to know because I'm not a warmonger but I don't like to be Dow'd either. If a modest number of Barracks>Armory>Military Academy promoted units will give me a...

I'm playing as China and I'm going to play out the game without building any World Wonders. I'm playing on King level and I want to see whether or not it's possible to win or to at least come close. I stacked the deck in my favor by setting up a Duel, Continents map. I have a decent start; 6...

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I like CiV's 1UpT model for military units. I do not love the inability to group Workers. Yes, you can get modest increases in Worker efficiency by building the Pyramids (Does anyone other than Egypt actually build the Pyramids?). IIRC, there are a couple of other ways to boost Worker...

If I select the Raging Barbarians option (And I usually do) do the AI civs also suffer raging barbs? Tried a forum search and I couldn't find a definitive answer.

Perspective helps. I'm an Old Guy who has played Civ since the first release. With the exception of the mighty Civ2, every new version has been greeted with a mixture of disappointment and criticism. We compare a fledgling release that's cursed with those compromises necessary to get it to...

In all of the time that I've played Civ (Since 1991) I was always a reluctant warmonger. Nothing against it (In a game) I just tend to be a builder and warmongering interferes with building. The game was becoming a bit stale so I decided to investigate the possibilities of warmongering. It's...

When I build Privateers it's both for their immediate uses and with an eye to promoting some of them to Destroyers. I usually have one promo available for them when they're built. I've been giving them Combat I. I've also read that some people give them Drill I or Flanking I. I'd like to hear...