Recent content by Botzarelli

Couldn't you quite as easily have been landed with Sailing, Optics and Metal Casting?

Perhaps it was random but on the Paris/Culture Win TSG I had an Iroquois City very close to one of my cities and the Iroquois rotated units within bombard distance of the city and moved them away before they were killed, building up lots of free XP without facing the risk of actually attacking...

Interesting and it shows that at least for England they have got the balance of attributes right to make the civ's strengths close to those of the historical real one. I wonder how well the strategy works when playing the Terra map.

Finished too late to submit but won Diplomatic Victory in the 1880s - a little slow but I'm quite pleased as my first attempt at that victory type and difficulty level. The need to focus on science and maintain enough modern enough troops to avoid unwanted wars helped me to curb my bad instinct...

Those guys on the other continent sure have a lot of triremes! Not sure why.

Garrisoning units does mean that you can't rush buy a unit in that city without moving your garrison out.

I often have similar problems on higher levels. I think one of the ways of keeping and growing your cash early on is to build fewer buildings and to make an early decision whether you want culture or not The culture buildings are expensive to maintain - if you like fighting you are better off...

This is a sensible view. Just as you have decided that you like the CS but not quite enough to go to war with the AI civ on its behalf, the AI civ doesn't want the CS enough to go to war with you over it. Perhaps this could be tweaked by making this a more conscious decision on the part of the...

First time playing at King (and first time posting on here!). Science defeat to Hiawatha in about 2009, leading on SPs but still had 5 to go. Main error was getting greedy for the 100% bonus for wonders in each city and placing Christo Redemptor in a city whose production was too low so even...