Recent content by civ4legs

I suspect Tennyson is right: you really need to keep an eye on the Power Graph: it affects diplomacy a lot, in particular when it comes to war. The AI is opportunistic when one of their opponent's power drops far below theirs.

I almost always bee-line to steel (for cannons/ironworks), and generally follow that up with Military Science for Grens. They have such a long lifespan when bee-lined, since it's not until the Ai starts spamming Cavalry that they have a serious weakness, and it's not until infantry that they...

I agree on this point: I don't think mixing whipping and GA is a good idea. I would also like to say that I beeline to grenadiers a LOT. I pretty much always have grenadiers before getting rifling, often for a LONG time. Grenadiers get a very long lifespan since even when the AI gets to...

While I don't claim to be an uber player (I have 5 or 6 emporer wins under my belt), I absolutely use the avoid growth button from time to time. There are times when I don't have slavery, but I don't want growth, but when I run my city to have the most hammers/commerce/GPP, I still end up with...

First off, cottage this puppy for sure. With bureacracy, an academy, and then later oxford, you are looking at pretty much the best science city you could ever hope for. As for health, as I wrote in another thread (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=5309273&postcount=6) so long as...

First off, great job so far: I think your performance in dealing with Zara has been a step above the last couple games. I agree with the critics wrt horseback riding instead of beelining for CoL, and for not scouting the rest of the continent, but your slick MM makes up for that in my mind :)...

Wow, with the whole world in buddhism I'd send a stack halfway around the world for the holy city!!! It must be worth a fortune!

Don't forget that the AI controlled Civs are getting LOTS of bonuses that the American Civ is not getting in this game...

This reminds me of playing Masters of Orion with the "random tech" race trait turned on. I don't ever recall it ending well...

Didn't you accept capitulation from Khan? That makes it hard to declare war! :) Or is the screenshot from when you were checking what he was willing to pay for peace?

Watermills don't give :gold: (gold), they give :commerce: (commerce). Commerce goes through the science/culture/espionage percentages, and whatever is left over becomes gold. Gold is gold :)

I have definitely seen this happen before in one of my games. I don't recall if I defied anything in that game, but I was definitely only getting the bonus in some of my cities.

I *hate* losing turns to anarchy, so I try to coincide major civics changes with golden ages. Also I will often run a select set of civics during the golden age, and switch to the new ones at the end (for example, I will often run pacifism during a golden age to pump out great people).

What are the chances that the tile 2s1e of your settler has a strategic resource? It looks like blank plains tile

Any thoughts about using corporations? Philosophical will help with generating the GPs... Sushi would be great for population (if you're going for a diplo win) and culture(for borders and cultural win).