Recent content by btfx

I'm not knowledgeable enough, but maybe someone here can answer: Are AI players blind to the fact that other players are non-AI, I have a feeling that AI treats the human slightly differently in SP. Am I wrong? How does this work with multiple humans? Last game I DOWed a friend in the first...

Hey guys, I've played a couple MP games with friends. Wanted to ask a strategy question from a different direction. How do you deny the different victory types? How do you keep track of how close your rivals are to victory? Some of these are pretty straightforward - for domination you can...

edit: Woops, x-post with, like 20 people

GLs are normal units, you should be able to load them just fine onto transports (assuming the transport has a free slot). Armies require one slot for each unit in the army + a slot for the army itself (or the army leader, or whatever that dude is called). So for a regular army, you need a...

Hah, the plains are terrible, especially since I can't irrigate them for millenia. But I was going for unconventional difficulty. Edit: Besides. There is a vary nice island right next to me...

Thank you Meteor Man for the great explanation to blockades. And I'll have to play with MapFinder, can't get it to do what I want yet. But I managed to generate at least one map that I like, just bu making random ones and sending the initial units in diff directions along the coast (did you know...

Bah, I think I'll just start random games and explore the shoreline, until I get a solo Island map =\ Ok, second question, I think the civilopedia mentions naval blockades. Does anyone know exactly how these work? Do I have to block all adjacent tiles? Can I blockade outside of the country's...

Hey guys, I'm getting a little bored with monarch, but still get mu rear handed to me in Emperor. There was this one *awesome* game where I spawned on an island on a pangea map. It gave me a "great disadvantage". Basically, I got a runaway civ (briefly) and that's when the island was really...

I did go for the navy thing. Pounding Ottoman ships with arty got my men-o-war to multiply fast (the no-support was great for the economy). But since it's a pangea map, I didn't go for all-out navy. I just let the enemy ships come to me, and captured as many as I could. As for the GL, my first...

I guess I wouldn't sell right away either... If I was playing with CultConversions =P

IIRC the cop is new

Good to know you can still sell them after Tzu, I still think my way is easier, as you don't have to check each city, just use the arrow keys to cycle them =P

I think he's asking how getting extra food as opposed to extra shields is helpful. I try to bring the city populations to maximum without getting any specialists, and maximize shields. I guess some people go for specialists. I never use spec farms, but I guess each citizen eats 2 food and...

I may be mistaken, but I recall trading workers on an archipelago map, with no cities sharing a landmass with a foreign power. I may be totally wrong though. Can someone back this up? BTW, don't forget to sell all barracks and granaries right before you capture Sun Tzu, or the pyramids...

Here's a slightly less-interesting one: The black line is infantry separating stuff I've conquered from stuff I haven't. Basically meant to keep the Ottoman Sipahi away from workers and arty, since IIRC having them captured in a democracy causes war weariness, even if you re-capture them. So...