Recent content by Astares

Concentrate on getting these techs first via own research or trade: The Wheel (to show you where horses are and to progress onto Horseback Riding), Warrior Code (which I think you get free for being Militaristic), Bronze Working (for Spearmen and progression onto Iron Working), Iron Working (to...

When you have flight and you want to fight in far off lands, take an expedition force of Artillery and Infantry, plus naval protection for your transports/galleons. Find and take a weakly defended city or establish your own in the enemy territory, then rush build an Airport. While your fleet is...

First off know which techs are required and which are optional, to progress an age. This allows you to concentrate on getting ahead in ages a tech from an age ahead can usually be traded for all the outstanding techs of a previous age. The AI tends to research every tech, be it optional or...

If I have Masonry, then my first build item on settling a city is usually a Wall. They require no upkeep and usually a new city can build them in 10-20 turns, which is using dead time till the city grows to two and I can build a worker. The Great Wall though is the booby prize of the Great...

I've been trying to play it with vanilla Civ3 1.29f on a 933Mhz PIII 512Mb RAM etc etc, must say loving being Carthage and decided before beginning the game to be a peaceful trader and go for either UN or Space Race and maybe if the oppurtunity presents itself bash up Rome if they were in the...

Med Inf upgrade to Guerillas (6/6/1) if I remember correctly from reading the article. I personally wouldn't upgrade them, the cost isn't really justified. And I definitely wouldn't upgrade them if they were the major unit used for defense. You would eventually look at upgrading them to...

There are a few ways to utilize a GA to maximum potential, one is use it to mass produce military units for a war and the GA has usually come about because you are at war and your UU has triggered it. The second one is to use it to build city improvements, hopefully you will have six or more...

Actually the Older the world the less Mountains and Hills you will have, since over the billions of years of erosion and settling of geological action, the world smooths out more. As for the original questions: 1. The game always starts out at 4000BC, not sure if you can change this is...

A Wonder can trigger a Golden Age, depending on what type of wonder it is and what your two Civ traits are. Russians if I remember correctly have the traits, Expansionistic and Scientific. Therefore wonders like The Collosus, Great Lighthouse, Great Library, SETI, Newton's University...

One thing to remember is that although they don't stack, if you still have a Coal Plant then it will still be producing pollution and costing money in upkeep. Often I will build a Coal Plant when available to speed up building the Hoover Dam, then once built I have to remember to go back and...

I'll take as many slave workers that I can get, especially if their of the nationality of a civ that is about to be obliterated. Then you can safely add them into cities if you have too many, for free population and no risk of rioting. Although you can never have too many free workers, so what...

Tundra without game is bad, Desert is so so, Jungle is a suprise waiting to be unwrapped but Mountains suck big time. One or two mountains in a city radius is fine but I hate those games where you get a gazillion mountains and they all seem to be in large packs and the worse possible spots like...

One thing to remember with trying to keep a capital is that alot of civs like to build wonders in there second or third major city which is usually right beside the capital and thus has alot of culture. I use the spy on a town a bit when I'm worried about culture flips as it can only flip...

Since your name is mud in the international community for the ROP violation, the only way you'll likely be able to buy techs is at lump sum amounts. As advised by previous posters, kill your research rate to 0%, trim back luxuries to the minimum and pump tax to the max. At 500-700 gp you should...

This is one reason why I go Depostism -> Monarchy -> Democracy. Because while you're a Despot or King your citizens will always be happy when at war. It usually works out to one for each country you are at war with. If you aren't going for a diplomatic win declare war on everyone and have...