Recent content by Blicero

Fully agree with the OPs main complaint. In addition to the balancing issues, the game lacks a soul. It's hard to differentiate all the items on the screen (terrains, resources, units, trade routes, borders). There is no feeling of threat, despair or challenge. And also it lacks seriously some...

Putting Morocco down on that coast was just mean, man! :p I bought a settler in Sukothai and put him down on the isthmus just to get my fleet in. Saving Morocco for the end cost me about 25 turns.

I was wondering what SV8 refers to also… Any clues?

tommy - in the GOTM thread you mentioned you had video footage of that game. I would love to see how you did that by T126. I just finished a game with Arabs (not GOTM) and won by T216, but it was a mix of camel archer and artillery rush. I guess in your game you don't even bother with...

How about an old-fashioned water map domination challenge. Similar to Korea but the goal is Navigation instead of Artillery.

Thanks Cromagnus! I finally achieved my goal thanks to some of your advice. I think the critical items that made the difference are: - 2x 3-beaker caravans as early as possible - 5 cities - I used the 3rd caravan for a foodie back to the capital (probably around T110) to get it to pop 16 by...

I know this challenge is out of date, but I've been pecking away at it. I finally got what must be a close to perfect map. Tons of luxes. Only difficulty is the size of the pangea and the placement of one particular civ's capital. Some milestones: NC T72 (4 cities) Edu T94 (5 cities...

Thanks Cromagnus for the write-up and the tips. So, I rolled another map for this one and managed to achieve arty by T151 :dance: I think the main thing missing from the previous attempt was the beaker caravans and careful city placement to 1) enable those caravans and 2) maximise luxes. Two...

So I managed to get around to giving this another go. The plan was to only start waging war once I hit artillery. I know it won't give me the fastest finish time but I was focused how fast I could hit artillery. I ended up with a T269 victory, which is a personal best for me. I hit...

Just so you know, I gave this little challenge a try. Had a nice little game going. Venice was next to me, so was my first target. I took him out around T75-ish. Of course since he only had one city (he had two GMs for about 10 turns and didn't use them, even on a CS that was NEXT to him...

Well I went about this on the warpath. Figured I would CB rush half the map and XB rush the other half. Thought about changing that plan at around T10 when I noticed the world was likely only 3bn years old, but already had Casimir's little screams on my mind. Founded cap on the hill to the W...

Does anyone know if it's possible and how to set the default settings of the game for how it displays the following on start up? - The city focus (mayor) box to be open (default setting is closed; it's the only closed box on the screen and one I use often, so I can't understand that. :P )...

Both are good and I go for both with small preference for logistics. So if I have 8 units, I'll put logistics first on 5 and range on 3. Benefits of range: - can get more units into attack position. Not all cities are surrouded by plains, so range helps out with the more difficult targets -...

Your name: Blicero Game status: Domination Victory Game date: 1400AD Turns played: 200 Base score: 940 Final score: 2350 Time played: 5:21:00 I just failed to get this under T200. I am frankly not sure how it's possible to do this by T121... :eek: I went liberty, built a couple of...

Lots of hate in this thread! Poor HR. ;) I'm sticking with it to see how it goes. I like to try my hand at dealing with adversity. For all you guys whining about production, you just have to see the forest through the trees. Literally. I settled on the hill one to the NW, built two scouts...