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I go just a bit different in terms of specialization. The main factors that determine specialization are ultimately your national wonders. Military Production...a city with good production (hills to mine, some food to support it, production resources such as iron and copper that add...

I run a version of a specialist economy...I put Oxford and National Epic together in a high-food city and effectively combine my great person farm and my science city. Lots of scientists, with all the normal science improvements, popping lots of great scientists, makes for a powerful research...

You can play multi player just fine with Civ IV vanilla; you don't need Warlords. But...all the players have to be playing the same version, etc. It is my understanding that you can't use Vanilla Civ IV and be playing with people who are using Warlords.

I really like the spiritual trait, for all the reasons Antilogic just outlined...he illustrated the power of the spiritual trait better than I could have. As for an agrarian trait...maybe just give the the Civil Service ability to chain farms from the beginning of the game, and perhaps the...

If you're going to run a specialist based economy, and rely on specialists for science, use your philosophical trait to get your universities built quickly and get Oxford built in your science city. I actually really like the philosphical trait... Consider combining Oxford and Nat'l Epic in...

I have destoyed many a town to access uranium or aluminum and even oil. But I won't destroy two to get a second source, as I don't trade strategic resources away. Though I will trade Ivory away once War Elephants become obsolete, or to a civ on another continent if they need some help...

On the orders menu, there is an option for sabotage...it think it is a depiction of a bomb... Previous posters are right...to destroy improvements (mines, oil well, etc) it generally costs 200g. And the AI usually has workers there the turn after rebuilding the improvement. The strategy...

For air attacks you have two choices...one is 'air strike', which attacks units on the chosen tile (and bombers cause collateral damage to stacks). The other choice is 'air bombardment', which will bombard down city defenses (like a cat or cannon or artillery), or...if you select a non-city...

I am able to get screenshots by pressing "alt-Print Screen". The screenshot is then saved in a 'screenshots' file folder...which is in the "Civilization" folder, in the "Games" folder. Others probably know better than me...but I think that you have to have screenshots enabled in your setup...

It is not about not having iron (though there may be something to be said about the risk insurance against not having metals)...it is about being able to whip out about a half dozen jags in the time it would take to get a settler to the iron and the worker turns to get it hooked up. It is...

You need to look over the unit categories (mounted, melee, siege, etc) and study the various unit vs unit bonuses. For example, spearmen and pikemen have an inherent +100% bonus vs mounted units. If you were attacking that spearman with an axeman, for example, the axeman - which has an...

The cheap universities are nice because in order to build Oxford you need to have six universities in your empire (on normal speed, average size world). So, you can only get Oxford up as quickly as your slowest (sixth) university. If you can speed that up by several turns (as you can with the...

Yes...drafting takes one population and turns it into the best defender in the Infantry line: Longbow, Musket, rifleman, Infantry...the best one you have the tech for. The drafted troops get half of the XP that they normally would...a barracks gives 2 XP...just enough for that first City...

The philosophical trait is actually quite good. What is this comment about 'lucky to get 10' great persons? In my most recent games, with philosophical leaders, I got to the Great Person at 3,000 great people points, and was chasing the next one (which would have been at 3300...it goes to 300...

They also provide an important counter-balance in the game. If there are three or four civs on one continent, they are going to have to fight over territory to expand. If there is one or two civs on another large continent, they would have lots of room for easy, unfettered expansion...and...

Yep. I like playing as Monte. I love the trait combination, and I also like the starting techs (an agressive civ that has a real chance of founding an early religion). The Jag gets a bad rap, but only because it has a point less strength than the unit it replaces. It does, however, have a...

Another quick point...you need a building - or Caste System - to support a specialist of some sort (a temple for a priest, library for a scientist, etc) to use the free specialist as that type of specialist. If, for example, you go to merchantilism for the free specialist in each city, and you...

Good points about the fewer pre-requisite techs needed for artillery. I hadn't realized it was quite that many. I've always wanted to add railroad and combustion for defense purposes...never really seriously considered skipping them. But that is a large difference in research...I probably...

Cam H. - first of all, I like that avatar... Fighters (on intercept) can defend against air-based pillaging...in fact, they are the best defense against other air attacks; They can engage in air-based pillaging (as cabert mentioned); Recon missions with your fighters can see trouble...