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trying my hand at trade-route economies for the first time and I went to the war academy to try to find an article or two on the subject with no luck. Was hoping someone could point me in the right direction, or provide a few tips. I usually avoided archipelago maps, but I *slightly* cooked...

I was messing around with an SE game with Zara, and towards the end, deciding to convert virtually all my hills to windmills, deciding to try out environmentalism instead of state property for my late-game economic civic. I quit the game before I could attempt to make up the maintenance costs...

Playing at emperor level, I've come into a consistent problem which hampers my ability to be effective. I've learned how to REX better than I've ever thought possible, but it only keeps me at parity with monsters like joao, gilgamesh or shaka, and even then it's not something that is...

I'm making the jump to emperor. Looking for critical feedback on the game so far. Playing as Pericles, favorable map [to ease the transition], got a start with both stone, marble, and 2 corn. Surrounding countryside has favorable green tiles, pigs and corn abundant. Struggled with REX, I...

I was playing a game while under the influence a few days back [the best way for me to come up with creative civ solutions], and I stumbled across this combination. No unhappiness, and no pollution from population. This ideally takes away both caps on population and can create a massive city...

when is it possible that an AI can declare war within 10 turns of making peace? I reckon if that AI vassalizes to another, and that AI declares, but when else? BACKGROUND TO THE QUESTION: I was playing a game as catherine, on a continent with cyrus, sury, hatty [cyrus closest, next...

Since moving up from noble [playing monarch now], I've been almost exclusively been playing specialist driven economies. After a random leader roll of Hannibal, starting with decent food in the capital, and a plethora of floodplains in the surrounding countryside, I decided to try my hand at a...

Ok, I had a weird scenario just happen to me, I'm hopnig approaching ya'll here can offer me some sagely advice to avoid getting dogpiled for the unknown reason I was just dogpiled for. The game: Monarch, Hemispheres, normal, standard. I was playing as Zara, on a continent with Izza, Cathy...

Currently, I'm trying to wean myself off of phi-cre-spi leaders, as I'd developed a taste for specialist driven science, but I want to take a step back and perfect my cottage driven economic skills to the same level. But I've got a few questions on how to properly leverage a couple aspects of...

are there any good modpacks that will essentially allow me to group attack with units, better yet, group attack while giving me options on which troops attack first and which don't? I'm trying to shorten up the lengths of my games [especially in the late-game], and I'm finding the sheer...

ok, so after having to teach myself to war without an 'all powerful' cavalry rush, dealing with insane war weariness, and AIs that would rather slit their own throats than have me do it for them, I think I've finally gotten to the point where I'm ready to take the step up to monarch. I've got...

I'm sick of the only type of warfare being siege warfare. Giant stack of units approaches a city, one side reinforces, whips/drafts units behind a walled city, and a bloodbath ensues. What's worse, is that in Beyond the Sword, the computer reinforces those cities from without like mad, and...

I've spent the last little while bettering my game thru learning the mechanics of the SE recently, but upon reading a number of threads here, it seems that thru raw beaker output, the SE cannot keep up with the CE in the late game. I've played a number of games myself, and I've found I peak in...

Anyone ever tried this? I stumbled upon this method playing a game last night, Continents, Prince, Huge, Epic, 14 opponents. I started on the small continent, with 4 civs. Playing as Victoria, I wanted to leverage the financial trait by cottage spamming as much as possible, but finding my...

Ok, after spending a fair amount of time on noble and learning all the new features and concepts in civ 4, I decided to make the jump to prince, and am experiencing a lot of difficulty when it comes to warfare. Given I almost always play the terra maps and my old civ strategies all were huge...