Recent content by Ahab

What is "wonder victory", I could never find an explanation of it in the guide. (surprise)

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women.

After reading "Beyond Sid" I changed my philosophy on early bombardment weapons. In a recent game I caught myself using wave after wave of cavalry against riflemen. It was a massive war of attrition, and I only won due to superior size. I reloaded from save to before the war and concentrated...

don't forget to build the Courthouse in your far-flung cities. It helps.

I usually let slaves automate and keep control of 'my boys'. It's too depressing to put a slave on a mountain and see that it will take 700 years for him to road it.

heh, am I the only one that skips Ironclads?

Box him, and box any other workers that come in to do the same. They will be just waiting there when you decide to take the Greeks out.

I had an interesting thing happen to me in my current game related to upgrading/training units. I declared war and all the sudden couldn't train beyond archer/spearman. It took me a while to figure out that my only iron resource was connected to my mainland by harbor, but the only 'safe' sea...

I'm working a game going for a 20k city, and for the fun of it, used my coastal cities to produce Privateers to harrass the shipping in a narrow channel between myself and the Aztecs to the north. Prior to this, the Aztecs were "polite" to me, but within a few turns it had changed to...