Recent content by Alan_of_Dale

Congratulations! :goodjob: So how about telling us some details, like final score, civ, speed, map type, sea level, number of opponents, and anything else you would like to share. ;)

After I wrote that I realized that I was forgetting a couple of things about the capital. And don't be so modest. From what I've seen and read you are just a very conservative player, not a bad thing if it were real lives on the line in an empire. I tend to be a bit conservative myself and I...

That's for sure. In the later half of the game it was taking 15 seconds in between each click on a unit in a stack of doom. It's fortunate that I know the keyboard shortcuts like shift-click, ctrl-click, and alt-click on a unit in a stack to reduce the micromanagement of the stack (see manual...

Ended up with 164,968 points (Sid score 4233) with a 1386 AD domination victory, currently 4th of 8th in the Gauntlet. Took the last 4 main continent cities each from Roosevelt and Frederick in about 25 turns combined total including healing, then gave them peace. Then did a two turn war to...

Thanks, establishes a frame of reference. Would have been mind blowing to the male strategy ego to see almost the entire HoF Deity level to be the property of the ladies. As it is Moonsinger is already Goddess of the Incas. :D Remember seeing you say you still had vanilla and that you...

OMG, go get Warlords, mate! :eek: It's cheap and you need it as it is integrated into the Civ4 HoF completely. Catherine has also been changed and can even be used to win completely peaceful domination games in impressive times. Yes instead of nerfing Inca like they needed to, the play...

Yes, instead of nerfing Inca like they needed to, they made them even more uber. I also scratch my head over still giving Quechua the aggressive combat promotion. :confused: That can't be right. As a result of Inca alone I would say that domination and conquest is easier in Warlords. However...

His games or is it her, not sure? Actually, if you look at HoF deity level cultural, diplomatic, time, and even half of the space race, vanilla still has the best times. So is Warlords really better or does its harder and less pleased AI, and the no Mathematics prerequisite for CS in vanilla...

Only advantage of the capital is the Palace's culture and +1 happiness. Not an issue here really with size 9 capital producing 77 beakers with GL and one extra specialist scientist. Could have grown it a bit more if i felt like it with a non-gold farm next to a lake available, but needed the...

Took another day off from my vanilla Julius marathon terra game to watch some TV, season two episode 1 of Heroes, and season 1 episode 1 of Bionic Woman, and a new Stargate SG-1 episode! The first two were "fast-tracked" to Australia without the usual 6 months delay to deliver the expensive...

Two good results seem to have been obtained, 180k and 201k. However, I don't see them listed on the G-Major 16 Gauntlet page which instead states "No games submitted yet". I wonder whether the victors have submitted their games or whether there is an issue with determining this very broad...

:eek: Need I say more? AoD

Your last comment implies you are not young, mate. ;) As for the map description, sounds logical, never noticed that. I did high sea level, too. Have 9 AI civs (one more than the minimum number of civs) in my current marathon game. Not sure I'll want to play this Gauntlet twice as Caesar...

I took the day I wrote this post off, and the following night I watched TV. Last night I played this game some more. I did get Lib first for expensive Astronomy in order to be the first to exploit the second continent on the Terra map (high sea level). Two galleons with 2 settlers, 3 workers...

I guess you trust the game engine more than I do. As one who plays Caesar quite a bit, I need iron as well. However, the game engine does not always give iron, or even copper to conquer iron, in one's local area and so iron needing civs become useless. So I like to find out relatively early...