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Sisiutil
All Leader Challenger
He's playing as Israel, which is not one of the standard civs. Furthermore, I've never seen dye on desert/floodplains before. It's always on grasslands.What Mod?It looks like the normal graphics to me.
BrantleyL1
Warlord
Hi all,
I'm trying to get past falling into the space race victory in every game. A while back, I was able to win a couple of domination victories, but that was before I had a clue as to what I was doing. A little knowlege is a dangerous thing. I also won a few diplo victories. One because I had about 60% of the population...
I'm trying to figure out a bit more about war... I can seem to knock off a tow or three early opponents, but that's when it gets tough. For example, in a recent game, I had taken out a couple of minor opponents, but wanted to take out the remaiing AIs on my continent. Fred and Isabella.
I had one corner where Isabella & I met and a longer border Fred & I shared. When I attacked Isabella, I had riflemen and she was just past musketmen. I really did not have a lot of trouble taking her out. Fred was in the NW corner, Isabella in the NE and I had the South. I had a one-city border with her, so I just massed my army there and swooped in. Byt the time I was done with her, Fred was fairly powerful and I had a LONG border with him.
So HOW do I protect it AND go after him?? I tried this, but he swooped in on my poorly protectred cities. So how do I get around that??
In another game, the continent was a big square. Draw a C in it on the east side. The opponent had the inner part of the C and I had a number of cities on my side of the C. I tried attacking, but he just took his army and went after a bunch of my other cities...
How do I protect a long border or what is tha best strategy to handle that situation??
I'm trying to get past falling into the space race victory in every game. A while back, I was able to win a couple of domination victories, but that was before I had a clue as to what I was doing. A little knowlege is a dangerous thing. I also won a few diplo victories. One because I had about 60% of the population...
I'm trying to figure out a bit more about war... I can seem to knock off a tow or three early opponents, but that's when it gets tough. For example, in a recent game, I had taken out a couple of minor opponents, but wanted to take out the remaiing AIs on my continent. Fred and Isabella.
I had one corner where Isabella & I met and a longer border Fred & I shared. When I attacked Isabella, I had riflemen and she was just past musketmen. I really did not have a lot of trouble taking her out. Fred was in the NW corner, Isabella in the NE and I had the South. I had a one-city border with her, so I just massed my army there and swooped in. Byt the time I was done with her, Fred was fairly powerful and I had a LONG border with him.
So HOW do I protect it AND go after him?? I tried this, but he swooped in on my poorly protectred cities. So how do I get around that??
In another game, the continent was a big square. Draw a C in it on the east side. The opponent had the inner part of the C and I had a number of cities on my side of the C. I tried attacking, but he just took his army and went after a bunch of my other cities...
How do I protect a long border or what is tha best strategy to handle that situation??
I'm no expert, but I'd suggest 
your cities to pump out more defensive units, and also some fast units (cavalry) to pre-damage the Stacks o' Doom. Use the large amount of Population in you capital (which you should have) to crank out units fast, then SEND them to your other cities.
your cities to pump out more defensive units, and also some fast units (cavalry) to pre-damage the Stacks o' Doom. Use the large amount of Population in you capital (which you should have) to crank out units fast, then SEND them to your other cities.More ...
* I can never get AI's to go to war. The choice is always in red. What am I missing?
* If A goes to war with B, but never asks me to join in, but I declare war on B independently, do I still get
points from A?
* How are sea tiles that do not have a resource on them (but have bread/money) on them worked? does it just happen automatically?
* I can never get AI's to go to war. The choice is always in red. What am I missing?
* If A goes to war with B, but never asks me to join in, but I declare war on B independently, do I still get
points from A?* How are sea tiles that do not have a resource on them (but have bread/money) on them worked? does it just happen automatically?
Answers ...
* Hold your mouse over the choice for a few seconds, and it will tell you why the AI refuses to declare war.
* Yes.
* Double-click on the city that is nearest the water tiles. All tiles with a white circle are worked. To change wich tiles are worked, click on the ones you want worked. This will remove the circle from another tile, because your population determines how many tiles can be worked, so click on the one you want to remove first. For newbies I recommend leaving these alone, because if you leave it alone it is automatically selected. Click the Automate Citizens button at the bottom right to the left of the minimap to put them back on automation.
Hapi nu yeer!
* Hold your mouse over the choice for a few seconds, and it will tell you why the AI refuses to declare war.
* Yes.
* Double-click on the city that is nearest the water tiles. All tiles with a white circle are worked. To change wich tiles are worked, click on the ones you want worked. This will remove the circle from another tile, because your population determines how many tiles can be worked, so click on the one you want to remove first. For newbies I recommend leaving these alone, because if you leave it alone it is automatically selected. Click the Automate Citizens button at the bottom right to the left of the minimap to put them back on automation.
Hapi nu yeer!
Freydin
Chieftain
I have the basic gameplay down, but what about choosing the leader? I've always just picked random people based on cultures I like in actual history, I don't really understand the leaders. I know they have their different traits, I just can't really pick and choose for what I truly prefer. Explaining the traits is worthless, since I know what they mean.
All I can really say is that while I'm not an aggressive person loving to go to war, I know that it has it's uses, and that I'll go to it if I have to. However, I try to be more peaceful with other empires. I have both the Warlords, and the Beyond the Sword expansions, so if someone could point me in the right direction as far as leaders to use goes I'd really appreciate it.
PS: Sorry if I made myself sound confusing, I do that a lot.
All I can really say is that while I'm not an aggressive person loving to go to war, I know that it has it's uses, and that I'll go to it if I have to. However, I try to be more peaceful with other empires. I have both the Warlords, and the Beyond the Sword expansions, so if someone could point me in the right direction as far as leaders to use goes I'd really appreciate it.
PS: Sorry if I made myself sound confusing, I do that a lot.
Yah, all I ever get is "We don't like you enough." I say yes to open borders and reasonable trade requests--including tribute--but often say no to one sided tech requests. Is that it?
the first exploded nuke or nuclear meltdown starts it, every subsequent one increases the chance per turn for a tile to be affected...
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Bleys
Deity
I suggest Gandhi. Since you're not a warmonger, you should choose a civ that has a UU that can benefit you the most. Those fast workers are amazing. Also, he is Spiritual and Industrious (in vanilla, anyway) so you can avoid anarchy, build more wonders, and usually get at least a couple religions. Gandhi is a great peaceful leader.
This may sound silly but my city border has grown big enough that I can't see the edges on the map in the middle of the city screen. Is there any way to zoom out the city screen map or scroll it around. Alternatively is there any way to get the workers to work squares that are near the edges (ie not in the bit I can see).
Freydin
Chieftain
Thanks, I'll try him out. I've been reading up on tips, so I should be okay defensively as well.
You can only work the tiles in the city's so called fat cross, which you can see in the city screen, i.e. the twenty tiles surrounding the city tile (two tiles range horizontally and vertically, one tile diagonally). If the cultural border of the city grows beyond that, you still won't be able to work those extra tiles it now covers. They do however count for your land area, and you can connect resources located there.
You need to have your sound on. Here's an example:
A clicks on B's name, B hears a ringing sound and A's name flashes on B's screen, B clicks on A's name, then the trade table opens. You both have to click on each other's names.
Roland Johansen
Deity
Fighting along a long border is less straightforward than fighting over a short border. It's harder to find the enemy main army and kill it. Still, that is the thing you want to do.
If you would be the much weaker civilization and would lose in a straight up fight, then you could use the described AI tactic against it and capture cities in an area far away from their army.
In the late game, you can use the air reconnaissance missions to scout the enemy land and find out where its troops are going. In the early game, you can use spies. It's very nice to know where the enemy is amassing troops. It's a war of information.
Sometimes it's very easy to get the information because the AI places 30 units in some border city which is inside your sight range. Not a very smart move from the AI, but still the AI does this a lot.
The best way to protect a long border while you lack information is to place a fair number of defensive units in every border city. It's no use to put dozens of units in every border city as when the enemy would use a large stack to attack one of those cities, then even a dozen units might not be enough. The defensive units are just there to dissuade the enemy from using a fast army (just horsed based units) to move inside your borders and capture a city in one turn. That would hurt the enemy a lot as your defensive units would then still enjoy their massive defensive bonus which can only be reduced by the slower siege units.
When the defensive troops are in place, you place a reaction army on roads (preferably railroads) so that it can reach every city along the border fairly quickly. Maybe you are better of by splitting the reaction force in two (or more) sections. This idea behind such a reaction force makes it prudent to place fast units (horse based units, helicopters) in such an army. But if the expected enemy force is large, then you also want siege units and normal fighting units in the army so that you can weaken the army by attacking it with siege units before you kill it with normal units.
By using such a tactic, you should be able to kill the main part of the enemy offensive army when it tries to go for one of your cities. After doing that, your own offensive units aren't needed in the large reaction force any more and can now be used in an offensive move to capture enemy cities. However, you still need a smaller reaction force in case the AI builds a few new units and tries to use them offensively again.
Another nice advantage of killing the main part of the enemy offensive army inside your own borders is that you will (barely) suffer any war weariness for it. The amount of war weariness that you get from battles is directly proportional to the strength of the enemy culture in the tile that you're fighting in (percentage is visible in the tile).
A small disadvantage would be that the AI might pillage a few tiles. But that's usually a relatively small loss compared to the number of units that you can kill in this way. If you have such a long border, then the loss of a few tile improvements won't hurt you.
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