Recent content by Berks

Diplomacy continued to break my way, and I was able to wipe out Zara and take all of his land. T130 Traded for Calendar and Monarchy as planned. Now have room to grow my cities again. Continue to add a few more HA to the stack. Started on MC so I can get Currency and some money. Redeclare on...

I started playing another set just to see how badly I would lose, when I was presented with an opportunity..... T103 I retreated my stack, waiting to snipe some more units and try to circle around to Lalibela with the main portion of the stack. HC joined the war against Zara a few turns...

So, can we win with ALL of Zara's land? And if we Elepulted Zara, what date would we expect to take the land? :devil:

@krikav I don't usually use HA's (With my 'talent' as you put it for rolling maps I found archerpult was sufficient on Immortal). I don't think I did it optimally at all! My game from T27-50 wasn't too great IMO so I might replay from the T27 save after we all laugh at my next round...

Good luck with the game Krikav. I have produced the army, I'll attach the T82 save with 12 HA and a Chariot ready to go. I'm really hoping you're able to get more HA or hit earlier than I did. I played a short round after this one which made me want to take a break for a day or two. I'll post...

Hi Krikav, You're right, the land outside the capital isn't that good. Lets try HA's and see how it goes. T69 I switched research to HBR, and built a few more Workers. I want to strike ASAP so Writing can wait. We have enough commerce. Settled Haithabu to maximise its' short term production...

@krikav The saving hammers on Archers at the cost of commerce makes sense given we have Gems and focused on Commerce early. I felt we had a short border and lots of good defensive tiles so we could avoid Archery in this case. A bit greedy to be sure, as the next set showed. T50 Archers and...

Hi Krikav, I meant preventing Jungle spread. Didn't know it wouldnt spread to Plains but that makes sense :blush:. I also wanted to fogbust it so I could settle and build a mediocre site (given the info we had at the time, I was concerned at being boxed in to 3 city sites) Barb situation is...

T36 BW in. Copper in the PERFECT spot! Switch research to Wheel, then AH. Finish Warrior, 1 turn in Barracks to grow to size 4. Workers chopping forests. Put double chop into Settler. 1 worker to improve Ivory and 1 worker to chop to finish Settler. Zara settles Jungle to south. Find a nice...

T27 I like the 2 worker line after thinking about it this morning. I had no idea if corn -> gems or gems -> corn would feel better, so I tried both. See the attached screens for comparison. Note I worked lake over unimproved Corn at size 2 to get BW faster in both cases. Corn first would get...

I also lurked for a long time before posting games (my first account was from 2008) but once you start posting saves, you find you spend more time thinking. Sampsa's post is excellent advice. If you are going to post saves or games: Smaller turnsets are better; Try to articulate your plan for...

@krikav Was thinking about your last post again and caught myself blasting through turns without thinking on NC226, so put that one down. Still want to Civ, so picking this one up. @sampsa With the intention of settling on Banana, moved Scout S of Banana and found the tile you were referring...

Hi Krikav, I'm conscious of that mental fog you describe, so I made sure to play quick sets, which is why I had so many saves attached. With this particular game, I was pretty close to 'done' after mostly failing with attacking Sury a half a dozen times, so it's possible it affected me without...

Decided to try Continents for the next one. Drew Ragnar. Interesting start to my eyes. Do we settle on Banana or Ivory? I'm leaning towards Banana.

Hi Krikav, thanks for the saves. You made some nice progress, getting back up to a decent pop and 15 workers. I did see HC had a stack in our border so it was purely for demo, but nicely played nonetheless. The situation is unusual for me too, usually on Immortal rebuilding doesn't matter as...