Recent content by Al Capwn

For your birthday I hope you get a Vandal Invasion because I know how much you love random events, especially barbarian invasions! ;)

If you are attacking directly from the sea (from a transport) or across a river tile you will have a -25% penalty unless the unit has the Amphibious promotion. So, while your Modern Armor still had decent combat odds compared to your Amphibious Marines, the reason was becuase Modern Armor has...

If you want a pre-made mod that takes care of every question/complaint issued in this thread so far, just use the Wolfshanze mod. 1) Destroyer Escort is a new class of ship that represents the old, WWII style of destroyer. It is available earlier in the tech tree than the modern destroyer and...

Me too. Faster speeds annoy me. I hate the fact that on faster speeds my brand new state-of-the-art army can become obsolete before it sails across the ocean. Wtf?

Did he build Chicken Pizza? (Chichen Itza) Another possibility is if he has a ton of cultural defenses (Cathedrals, monasteries, University, also The Hermitage or other big culture wonders).

Agree about the nerfed collateral reduction with machineguns. I've become a fan of the Drill line lately though. If you can get a unit up to Drill IV (albeit difficult unless A-Charismatic Leader, B-UU that starts will Drill promos, C-War, war, and don't forget to war) the added +25% vs. Mounted...

Another way to help win the culture war is to assign Artist specialists to a city. This can be done by either building theaters or other buildings that allow you to place an Artist specialist in the city, or by running the Caste System civic which allows you to place an unlimited number of...

On a quick side-note... Does anyone know how the "weighting" for the events works? For example: The Controversial Pholosopher above has an Active/Weight ration of 75/1000. What does that mean?

Controversial Philosopher Prereq: Capital with more than 35 research per turn AND Theocracy Civic AND PHILOSOPHY Obsolete: SCIENTIFIC_METHOD Active/Weight: 75/1000 Result: 1.+1 happy face for 15 turns in all cities 2.Capital loses 1 happy faces AND 1 free scientist 3.pay gold (100...

Thanks for the info! I'll have to check some of these out.

If the History channel's show "Axemen", which is about modern-day lumberjacks, is at all accurate then it is possible to grow industrially useful forests in a matter of 5-10 years (roughly 1 civ turn in industrial era). I think that would be far too easily exploitable however and I like the idea...

Here's an idea that I haven't seen yet suggested on the forums: The ability to terraform land once certain technologies are discovered. The only things I was thinking should be available would be to either create hills from plains/grasslands, create grasslands/plains from hills, or creating a...

I'm using the Wolfshanze mod and I believe it incorporates the BTS Better AI mod. Perhaps it's just the civs I'm playing against...they might have a lower build rate/priority? I haven't seen a Shaka or Monty make it to the Age of Airpower yet (they usually get wiped out well before then or are...

I can live with the strange air combat rules but what irks me most is the AI's underutilization of air units. I'll routinely see a single fighter patroling a 3-city radius with no other support and I don't think I've ever seen an AI aircraft carrier with any planes loaded onto it. The concepts...

At the very second after youv'e started the game, loaded your saved game, taken the time to figure out exactly what was happening and what you were trying to accomplish the last time you saved, and set-up all of your specialists and build ques, your wife says that she needs to use the computer...