Recent content by CarnDaWoods

Yipee. It is available in Melbourne. But that brings up the dilemma. Should I wait until closer to the weekend before I get it?

What's the story. Has it arrived? I have not been able to bring myself to bother checking before now as I could not stand the anticipation. That and the fact the Spring Carnival has been on. But the Melbourne Cup has been ran and won, so now I need something to replace betting on the horses...

Oh, and bring back the Legions for Rome. The US Marine should be the US's UU. Both the Navy Seal and Praetorian seem silly. And, how can you trigger a GA with a fast worker?

Almost as soon as Cyrus brought the Persians to the Mede's aid he decided to arm as many as he could with swords and armour. Before then only the political elite had decent arms in Persia. The rest were auxilliary troops. He recogonised the impact Persian swordsmen fighting shoulder to shoulder...

You have to learn to take advantage of whatever civ you choose. Do not be afraid to restart the game, everytime you realise you have gone down the wrong track, or think about a better approach. Learning this game requires an iterative approach. Each time you will learn something new...

No Celts or No Mounted Warrior to chose from. I'll probably just go random. Maybe the Egyptians if they still have an UU that moves two.

You are just in for a hard slog thats all. Building any more cav is a waste. Use the remainder in counter attacks, so you can eliminate red or yellow enemy units and still retreat. Otherwise build massive infantry. If you build enough you will be able to go on the offensive. But in three...

I'd rather them than a stack of swordsmen. They'll do me all the way up to knights. Why build anything else if you have the choice?

I'm with the Woad Rider dude. Neither. Celtic Swordsman kick both their respective cross between a horse and donkey. As the other dude said, mobility beats attack which beats defense.

Build roads, my son, build roads. Every tile a city uses should have a road. You will need more than one worker per city in the initial phase of the game to ensure that you can improve tiles before as soon as a city starts using it. Rather than my first build being a warrior in ten turns, I...

Saw someone playing Civ on the tram. I kept staring until he acknowledged me. Just so I could tell him he needed to build more workers.

You can turn Culture off. Its one of the game settings as you start. I have the same problem in Emperor games. Especially against the Maya and a few other powerful early cultural civs. My solution is to only heal redlined and yellow lined units in captured cities and then move them on. Do...

I voted no, but there is one exception other than the Byzantines, and thats the Vikings. You need lots of Galleys to make as much use of the Berserkers while you can. You do not want to wait around for better transport (plus I go for Mil Trad first). The AI builds plenty of coastal cities on...

My problem was with the European civs. I always seemed to get civs from the same pool. Even if I played the Mayan's I might get one other American civ, and the rest European. Similarly with the Japanese or Chinese, I might get Korea and the rest European civs. I began to think that...

The first thing I did was turn the music off. And now when I play CGOM its the first thing I do. So I guess I do not even know what the CIV III music sounds like at all. But I got so sick of it in CivII, I guess.