Recent content by Braum

vvyt: Yes, 35 turns in my capital for a tank, 40 for a fighter in a coastal city. I remember the game crashing around astronomy. I took a break, saved then it crashed when I tried to start it up again later. I restarted and I think that's when production of units started getting real...

I played a game with one or your recent patches. I played Epic speed, Arabia, King difficulty, and had trouble with unit production. For instance in late game it was 35 turns to make a tank in my size 28 city with a factory, but I could build an Observatory in 15 turns. It wasn't a great...

For some reason the first page with the download link to Mega won't display in https. It's the only page that won't. Even the older patch threads open in https.. Anyone else have this? I'm wondering if I have some DNS re-route malware that I can't find.

Seems like Thrift is superior to any other choice. Gold in itself is great. It allows you to buy units, rush buildings and maintain science. But it in later periods poverty becomes a real problem for happiness making Thrift even more important. What if you tuned down that link to happiness...

That's what it was. I didn't found my own religion and used a conquered civ's. It was a lot of +food modifiers that made things worse.

Ok, I'll try again. I went with Commerce to help with help with poverty.

Does Authority need a buff to deal with late game unhappiness caused by war and conquest? Going back to Authority after a few games using Progress brought the familiar late game happiness issues on level 6 difficulty. It seems like Progress is better suited to world domination through military...

He will probably focus on Ollantaymbo. He'll attack with ships and embark units to surround the city so you can't reinforce the crossbow defender. Once that unit is dead the city will fall quickly. Maybe cut down some forests to clear firing lines near that city and place ranged units around...

I'm glad I read this. It never occurred to me to actually bully a city state while using authority. It does help quite a bit in the early game. It's a different play style, pretty fun. In my current game Attila probably would have wiped me out had I not had 5 early spearmen for bullying. I...

I haven't seen him do well in recent games. It's hard to draw any conclusions, so many variables. I used to see him as one of the biggest threats.

The same strategy works with Spain, but even earlier. Might have to try level 6 again.

I tried this and it was the most dominant game I have played on level 5. Never tried Germany before, and it looked to be a bad start. Just me and Arabia on an island with only 2 city states. But as I explored more there were 2 islands that once borders expanded, only I could access. And they...

Ok thanks. I'm don't think its worth the trouble sending secondary religion to my cities for the extra building. Maybe if I was stuck with a small number of cities or had one of those tenants that benefited from 2 religions.

Is there a benefit for having two religions? Can religious buildings (like synagogues and mosques) of 2 different religions be active in a city at the same time? I founded my own zoa-something and I'm happy with it, then I captured the Holy City of Arabia with Islam. I usually just convert...

I don't mind run away civs. They always existed in Civ games and sometimes make for the most memorable games. But in this current game, you actually can't even fight them if they are on another continent. You get stuck in unhappiness and can do nothing but build buildings and envoys to dig...