Recent content by catfish99

I don't see knowing tendencies as a wrongful inherent advantage. Governments know the tendencies of other governments and move accordingly. Knowing how a rival will react is the key to diplomacy.

But armies in all eras had ranged units. The one per hex line with the archers/cats/trebs/arty behind is pretty much the way things worked forever. And there is a ton of fun in breaking a line, pouring your horses through the gap and taking out the enemy cannon. Tally ho!

I've been declining the initial peace offer and then countering with the cities I want only. In my current game Lizzie offered about 1100 gold , dyes and 4 cities plus open borders for peace. I countered with only one city...curiously, I chose the one beside her capital ;). I replaced the three...

Sometimes the game makes it better to "unpuppet" cities if you need to direct production for specific builds. Example 1 - you are landlocked and conquer a city with ocean access - this city needs to be controlled to allow you to build ships. Example 2 - you capture a high production city and...

I was playing last night when a former friend - who chose to protect a city-state in the middle of my war against it - went from Guarded to Friendly. I had just sold him sugar for 45 turns at a cheap price, so I thought the trade might have made him happy. Wrong. "You were a fool to trust me"...

I might go back a turn and reload to keep the unit in the City-State's territory and see if he still moves to protect them. Since I am already at war, I can't get a hit for declaring on them, I just want to avoid taking on another civ just yet- and I have other more annoying civs to deal with first.

I agree on the supply lines. It should not be hard to modify the combat calculation so that there is a deduction if there is an enemy unit in your rear. The game already has a trade route subroutine, and it could be used to determine if a unit has a clean supply line. Check for trade routes...

...the city-state I am warring against? I've been at war with Venice for five turns, and then I get a notification Persia is protecting them. Questions: 1. I stepped a unit out of Venice territory to heal - will another Civ not protect as long as I have troops in their territory? 2. Since I...

The isolated start advice above from Jolly is important. I've been stuck on continents with Toko -who never seems to open borders until well into the game- and warmongers who don't found religions. If you don't found one yourself, you can quickly get into a lost game.

Just steal it. Advantage you.

The best way to rush varies each game, I believe. If I draw a Civ with an early UU (the Incas, for example), I'll look to spam and go for a rush target. If it takes a while to get to the resources for a UU, then the rush is out, but I might still go for a worker steal to knock down a nearby Civ...

I can understand taking out the bonus for monastic research. You only have to look at the issues the church had with men of science in the 1500-1600 era. Galileo disputing the received wisdom saved and nurtured by the church in the Dark Ages? Call him a heretic and threaten him with eternal...

IIRC there is a strategy article on privateers. The suggestion there was stacks of three. If there is one unit of the three in full health, the AI will not attack prior to gaining frigates.

Re: the assign city vote. Do any of you know how the program decides which city is affected? In my current game, there are five recently captured cities in play. Two are at 0% culture, one at 1%, and two more at 4-5%. They range in pop and in controlled tiles, too, but the smallest in pop and...

Control-G will select all units of the same type as currently active and move them to the tile you right click.