Recent content by Bol

Sadly I'm no elite sprinter, just a random guy from Italy. My last name is Bolis, but most of my friends have been calling me Bol for like 20 years. Staying on topic, did you go Freedom or Order (and why)?

Once upon a time, the game was going great and I dreamt of my first subT200 finish...but alas, it wasn't meant to be :( The midgame went smoothly: T104 Chichen Itza to solve some of my happiness issues, then T113 I entered Rennaisance through Acoustics to open Ratinalism on the same turn, and I...

I got my best start by far I think, quite happy with how it's turning out (NB: I've actually finished the game already, but forgot to post here...) Love the map and I guess you can build as wide as you wish, for for this one I decided to keep it simple with 4 cities tradition. Settled on copper...

How do you speed up Diplo victory exactly? I've always assumed it only comes down to getting to the Info Age via Telecom asap and right before a congress vote, so that you can win 10 turns after that. Is that all? Am I missing something? I'd love someone to explain the tricks and nuances.

I'm a bit late on this one but I wanted to share anyway. I liked the land so I went for 5 cities Tradition , although I'm not sure it will pay off as I took a lot of time to set everything up: you can see I'm not at NC nor CS yet. I'm also struggling to keep allies after getting many very early...

What's the best hill to settle in your opinion? I'm torn between W and NW (not that it makes much of a difference).

Oh thanks, I thought for some reason the strategy had to be the main post.

I see this as "this post has been deleted", am I the only one? Does anyone have it saved?

Can anyone give me tips/guides on how to setup a Chu-Ko-Nu rush? Either "pure", or even a Compo rush that evoles into Xbows. Otherwise I'll end up playing my standard 4 Cities tradition turtle game, win domination being a flavour of a science game (Stealth + XCom). Thanks in advance.

Culture win 227. The main takeaway is 7 cities are way too many for a peaceful, freedom culture game: the increased cost in national wonders was not negligible, the extra science is not needed at all (I got Internet with an extra Scientist to sparse before I got half my artifacts), and the...

You know what? 7 cities Tradition, YOLO! Actually I opened with 6 cities because the land was too good and the luxuries too many to pass; I settled the 6th (the western one) T58. Not settling the 6th on the coast was a mistake in retrospect, as was the 5th (northeast); however there was a...

Is it feasible to have a decent culture game with Liberty instead of Tradition? There's a lot of real estate here, I can see settling 7 very good cities...but then there's no wonder bonus, no capital growth bonus, no faith buying engineers for key wonders, more expensive guilds. The heart says...

We are soooo back!

I played a very conservative game, not settling Kailash out of fear of being DoWed by both Huns and France (which I constantly brided to war each other instead). Akkad had Petra so it was great; Nippur was meh, but ok. Btw I still don't understand how to get closer to T200 (even sub220 would...

T229 Science Victory, I quite enjoyed this map; very powerful start. I might post some screenshot of the final turn later.