Recent content by Artemis

Early on I tend to have a pretty medium sized army since most of my strategies revolve around early expansion and conquest. Republic is definately better to get, because the techs that lead to it are actually useful (ex.: Code of Laws -> Courthouses) and there is much less corruption. However I...

Alt-Tab is your friend.

But the question is, how can you wage war without basic techs, warriors? :lol: By the way, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, what a great book that was. :goodjob:

Close spacing (2-3 tiles) improves defense, lowers corruption by proximity to the palace/forbidden palace so maximizes production. But in the later game, city radii overlap disgustingly because they are so close together so I may have a problem with that later on. Also I'll have t build many...

So far I've played all the civs in vallina Civ3, frankly my favorite is the Persians. You can research Iron Working immediately starting a game (because you start with bronze working) which gives you the very powerful Immortal only a couple of turns into the game (provided you have a source or...

Also, what is the use of Philosophy? Is it only a prereq. for the Republic or does it actually DO something?

So any tech not researched by any civs will always take 40 turns to complete?

How can I optimise my science progress? Should I always have the slider at 90 or 100% (except when the turn don't actually decrease when raising the slider)

Ok, so you guys are saying that in the easier difficulties it's better to research yourself and trade your techs to the AI for gold or more techs?

Hey guys, just started playing Civ III two weeks ago and I'm enjoying it immensly. This is my first post here but I've been reading awhile. I'm simply overwhelmed by the amount of strategy elements this game has. Anyways, my first question (and probably not the last) is: is it better to...