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I just read a months' worth of this thread --- I certainly wasn't expecting Brennus to be hurting this bad! :eek: This will be amazing if y'all pull it off.

:spear: Get em!

As an outside observer who has been reading your thread every morning at work, I hereby demand screenshots of a blaze of glory. :D If that motivates you at all.

Killed or vassal'd everyone in the South by 500 AD, ready to drop settlers by 1000 AD... my borders popped, and... 100 tiles short of the land limit. That'll teach me to add on a piece of paper! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: Quite possibly the most frustrating end to a game that I...

I think I firmly won the lowest-scoring diplo. That 15% wasn't the reason. :p Thanks for the game, admins! It was great fun. Edit: Dhoomstriker left a bunch of fun comments in his log.. how do you do that?

In my first spoiler, I explained that we took Washington down extremely early, almost completely crashing out the great Mongolian economy. We predicted: The Quick History:475 BC - 200 BC: 1st American War, Washington captured. 640 AD - 800 AD: 2nd American War, we capture all but 1 city...

Eww. I guess that would be the way to do it though. Current #1 for Standard Noble Domination is 250 BC, and it looks like that was the plan. Doesn't all your military get disbanded by the enormous upkeep though?

Mine doesn't show up on the gauntlet page either, although I'm a good distance from QM. :p Probably not going to show up until it's over, I guess. :)

When only two people in my (long past) World History class knew who Shaka was ... well, you can guess the reason. :P

When I see this I always immediately think "oh no, bureaucracy will be useless!" I don't know if that's a standard reaction, but if it is, maybe you could explain relatively early that bureaucracy won't be a priority, or something. Good luck on the guide!

The effects of map size on WW I didn't know whether to start a new "tips" thread -- I think this one should do just fine. Anyway, using this formula, I wanted to find out what the effect of the "map size" modifier was. The number of "WW" points are caused by the amount of combat... but the...

Do you have any idea if Total Unhappiness in a City gets rounded up or down? I'm working on a spreadsheet that implements the formula which could be useful for very large games. But I have no idea how to look up such facts -- I suspect everything is rounded down? Edit: I believe everything is...

I just wanted to say this thread is awesome. I played my first-ever SE game today (well, the beginning of it anyway), and no way would I have found the courage to try it without this. I always played the "newbie" Financial trait before, but right now I'm enjoying me some Philosophical/Creative...

I really loved this map. Kudos to whoever made it by giving us some tough choices early on. I went for the "military resource" city as #2 and the "stone" city as #3, with the two "money" cities coming after my war(s) with Washington (I wanted early production not money? I'm not sure whether I...

The way I saw the health bonus/health resource combo was: (1) Hereditary Rule = Extremely useful now, since the health cap is essentially removed. (2) Cottage and chop like mad since I don't have to worry about keeping those forests around for late-game health. So I kept Hereditary Rule...