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ICS has never been a viable strategy in Civ IV. But being able to chop-rush settlers to grab all these nice spots with copper or another strategic resource while the AI doesn't have a clue about how to do that and is forced to build settlers the hard way, settlers who'll have to found cities in...

GPT = gold per turn.

Yeah, I've seen so many threads about chopping scouts, that's obviously a popular strategy... I don't know if I couldn't make myself clear because of my poor english or if you don't want to understand. The key words are "if you're the only one able to use it" : if you chop settlers against an...

True. But chopping obviously wasn't meant to be an all-powerful beginning strategy as it was pre-Warlords : that's why they nerfed it with Mathematics required to get the full bonus. The healh bonus forest give is light compared to the huge production and development bonus won by chopping...

Before Warlords and the patch 2.08, chopping was exploited to have settlers and workers faster than the AI. Now that the AI does that too (at least I guess so seeing how fast the AI switch to esclavage in the early game), I guess it's less an exploit. I don't have anything against normal...

No, I find achievement in playing better, increasing my understanding of the game and building empires working well without exploits, unhappiness or unhealthiness. And I like to play every civ' in the game and understand his pros and cons too. Victory or defeat doesn't matter that much, and I...

I'd say no too, for the same reasons. But even if they were able to bulb techs, not so many techs ! They should only be allowed to bulb hardcore military techs like Gunpowder, Rifling or Military tradition, not every tech in the tree which allows you a new unit. It would be insanely overpowered.

If entrenched then. In the open, without palings, knights used to pass through archers like a hot knive through butter. These battles were not won so much on the sheer efficiency of the longbowmen, even if this one is not to be negated, that on the lack of efficiency of the heavy knights facing...

Well, if you build only two or three cities pumping troops and attack as soon as you have 4 or 6 swordmen or axemen, it's a rush in my book, at last in Civ. If you wait for cats, I won't call that a rush. Other opinions may differ. :)

Usually no, unless I pick an aggressive civ or if there is very few space around to settle. Sometimes, if there's a juicy prey around, like a religious or financial civ founding several religions or building an early wonder I want, I'll rush it.

Relions spread by trade routes. However, trade routes need routes, or rivers. If your neighbour has a religion you want, you need to open borders with him to enable trade routes between your cities. You have a small chance of the religion spreading to one of your cities connected to one of his...

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A spy can expose another spy by getting him caught, because a spy on a tile will lower the odds of a success for an enemy spy on the adjacent tiles. As for spies seeing spies : World Builder, Warlors 2.08. The spy on the town is mine, the three others are enemy spies. I have all techs...

Basically it's all about population and research speed at the beginning of the game. Expand more, research faster. But beware, if you expand too fast you'll be ruined and your research will drop. It's all about keeping a balance. But score doesn't mean anything anyway. You'll have civs with...

Peter is pretty much like Monty for me. At one time or another, he will backstab you, no matter what happened before. I've seen him convert to a religion he had in half of his cities while mine was spreaded in every city of his empire, just to have a reason to declare war on me I guess. And he's...

You've never been with a french woman I see. Well, I guess you've never been with a woman at all.

I've got horses popping under my capital too. I've had the message while I was watching a settler elsewhere, searched them several minutes before I decided to turn on the locator and then saw the little horses between the legs of my archers. I was Cyrus, so horses were to be connected at once. :D

Hannibal does well in the tech departement too. He's financial, expands a lot but not too much and is easy to live with, making him a tech trader. In most of my games he's the lead in techs around 1500 BC if he's on another continent. The AI does really better since the patch techwise. I'm...

+4 xp, it's +4 xp. :grabseverythingonsight: I even beeline to Assembly line to build the Pentagon for 2 extra xp. Having lvl 3 units defending cities and artillery while your main military production city pumps a lvl 4 assault unit out every two turns rules. The only thing I almost never build...

First goes to a unit to attain lvl 6 and be able to build West Point, second builds a MA in the city where I'ill build the two military national wonders, others go as instructors. Sometimes I'll make 2 MA if I need a lot of troops rather than elit troops, or if I have a really large empire.