Recent content by badwithnames

Yes, I finally won at emperor. Followed Aden's advice and rocked about two cities, the second coming only from my 100 gold perk. Finally got a third from a culture flip. Basically I had the cash to build an impenetrable fortress around my cities, and decent science until the end game to keep my...

AH must have been civ 3. Thanks again.

Thanks for the detailed response. I've been just expanding as much as possible which seemed to be fine in the earlier difficulty levels but not so much on this one (never mind against human opponents!) You know, I've been thinking, mad expansion seemed to work pretty well in Civ 4. But the...

So for the last two days I've been having a pretty good time with civ rev, and it felt pretty good beating up the AI on the first three difficulty levels. As soon as I ramped it up to emperor, though, the AI began consistently kicking my butt. I've been perusing these forums (lots of great...