Recent content by Ciek

Eh, I don't think Honor is as weak as you guys do, I almost always start with it, and I play on emperor usually. That said I pretty much only play on large-huge maps and I am a total barb farmer, and I find military caste and professional army social policies completely imperative in almost any...

I was actually thinking of doing a little chart like this for myself, now I don't have to!:thumbsup:

Celts, Celts and more Celts. I miss my one v. one Celts vs Rome games in Civ IV.:mischief:

This is why putting armies up as soon as battle is declared is just plain silly, Rome and now Japan have learned that the hard way ;).

Coast + marble is definitely a must, also very useful I've found is one or two river grassland stone tiles, lots of early and easily attainable production. One city is far from optimal now, I recently did an emperor Polynesia small-map small continents game, I could only get three optimally...

When I play any Deity or Immortal Game and want to go for Conquest and most of the time a Science Victory I will conquer any city states that are directly near to me as soon as I am able to devote troops from the incessant nearby AI, unless of course I am able to secure it under my wing via...

I too am skeptical about upgrading crossbows into cannons, the only way I could possibly see it justified would be to make the cost to upgrade completely outrageous, like 10% or maybe 25% cost to upgrade beyond what it takes to buy a fresh new cannon, it would have to be something you really...

Yeah, I've always played multiplayer, and have several friends I play regularly with over the last few patches, and I'm right there with you at the wanting to fight a decent Emperor level AI. In most games I like the war, every once in a while I'll play a builder game. It's just that most people...

Well, that actually reminds me of another question: Has anyone been able to sufficiently mod either the tactical AI or mod the AI to where the AI can actually do something with the mechanics already in place? Ok, what I would prefer under the current system(obviously not with an improved...

What I meant is that the purest extent to the increase of difficulty is the fact that the AI declares war even more often with even more units, yet the AI is still unable to take any cities without a huge technological lead, as long as the human has an average sized military and knows how to...

Well, actually I'm finding the AI even more difficult in multiplayer games at the high difficulties than I do in single player. I'm beginning to believe that this is intended based upon the recent patch, but it still seems silly that the AI group attacks a human player only to then declare war...

Well this is the first thread I've ever actually felt was worth writing, and I apologize ahead of the time if it seems like a rant, (and it does):p. The purpose of this post is that I felt the need to vent some frustration, as well as understand my fellow high level players, and how they deal or...

Yeah, the AI has no understanding of team mechanics, whether you're in teams with them or when deciding to attack a team of 2 or more humans. It's something that needs to really be looked into for a future patch, but I think there might be things that more important.

Hehe, doing that makes it waaaay to easy to form Germany or Japan if you're playing Divine Wind :mischief:. speedy world conquest is your plan then? If I'm a masochist that day I play Wallachia, no amount of BB reduction will help them get off their feet and manage to fight off the Ottomans...

I've been polishing off my Europa Universalis III gameplay for the past month waiting for the next patch so, I'll just continue that. Frankfurtian Brazil is mine! bwahaha