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Great news! I needed an excuse to buy myself a spanky new machine, here it is. Goodbye social life in 2011 :goodjob:

thanks guys, have been trapped in real life for the past couple of months without internet, so only just seen this!! but hoping to get back to whats important soon and finish the hunt for the botm eptathlon... :)

Cameron is a horrible lame ploy.

ah, balls. i got domination just one turn later! congrats! :) i think i should have just gone straight for keshiks instead of construction first. probably would have saved a lot of time. i took out alex, then toku, napoleon, cyrus, and monty and didn't even declare on HC. perhaps i should...

If that had been me, I would have run "No State Religion". Sure, you will lose the happiness bonus, but diplomacy between you and the others would have improved immensely, which I would deem more important - and eventually, if you had allowed open borders, the others would have spread...

Figured I should write a summary of what happened in my game, since I got the space award and srad was asking if a pre-1850 launch could be done. Don't really remember a lot of the strategy behind my game, but I've been through the autolog and pulled out the tech path I took etc. Essentially...

From having canvassed in some very tory areas, people who vote tory are generally ashamed to say they do so. If I ask people how they intend to vote, libs and labour will usually always be forthcoming, but tories will always be angry that I asked or refuse to answer the question. I don't...

i started off on the plains hill and soon found the tasty site to west of thebes. unfortunately a few turns bfore my settler was to reach there, ramesses sends a settler and warrior escorted towards it. feeling lucky, i took a gamble and managed to defeat the party with my lone warrior, only to...

hmm, bit of a waste of time and money, we'll be adopting the euro in a few years :D .. pretty though

hmm, Prince... two gold mines... what's the catch DS? :)

I figured I would get massacred without the Great Wall in this game, so that would be my opening gambit. Settled on the stone and built a couple of warriors whilst researching Masonry, to go out worker hunting. Found Alex first and nicked his worker. Whilst building the Great Wall I whipped...

Decided on a fast conquest game. So, started out by settling on the north hills, with my aim to get the CS slingshot, and then Engineering for trebs, and then steamroll. :D This is how my wars panned out - 1280BC - 850BC (Persia) - stole a couple of workers and pillaged some land. I...

Who is your rival? It is not necessarily the top two players in score terms. It is usually the person who built the UN, and the person with the highest population. And I think that civs have to be "friendly" for them to be guaranteed to vote for you. If they are just pleased I don't think...

I only tried it after reading everybody's discussion in the other forums otherwise I would have had no idea how it worked. Basically, yes you're right, just station a privateer within 3-4 sea tiles of a city and press the blockade icon. If you go back to that unit and click on it, it should...

This was my first game with BTS, I had planned to get some practice games in first so I could learn about all the new features and the new tech tree, but RL kept getting in the way so this would have to be my introduction! I decided I would go for Space since I wanted to try out a longish game...

My initial focus would be to hook up horses, pump out Immortals and take out my weakest neighbour. Persepolis was found on the hill, and Parsagadae near the horses. Once I had about 5-6 immortals, I decided that Roosevelt could be subdued before he could hook up copper or iron. So, in 1920BC, I...

My objective was fast domination. I started with the assumption that owning the home continent would not be enough, so I would need Astronomy. My goals were: 1. Research to Astronomy as fast as possible. 2. Colonise barb continent as quickly as possible. 3. Bring all of home continent under...

Sorry Vynd :blush: looks like the main difference between our games was your early switch to State Property. I stayed in free market all game and maybe this bought me a couple of extra turns of research. The times you were sneak attacked looked like they were a little more costly than mine too...

The objective was really to get to the end of the tech tree as quickly as possible! I ran a sort of hybrid economy - mostly cottages, but took advantage of representation from the pyramids to get as many great scientists as possible. I managed to keep research at 100% for almost entire game...