Recent content by CivMcNut

I do combat II for defensive purposes. If you go city raider and get counterattacked, your axeman, swordsman, whatever, is a sitting duck. If you go cover, you only get a bonus against archers, and if the AI has some metal units or chariots on defense then that promotion is useless. Combat...

I keep hearing about these Incans on here, I guess I had better give them a try. A unique unit you can build at the begining of the game sounds awesome. I am enjoying playing Babylon, they have a tough unique unit that comes early for defense and have that aggresive trait helps out all their...

Thanks to the advice on here, I actually got rolling again. The game I started most recently had copper in my capital's bfc, and I had researched bronze working fairly early. So like the advice on here, I just slapped down a barracks in my capital and started spitting out axemen one after the...

I love playing Darius too. I have more games in my hall of fame with Persia on them than any other civ, and some of my Persia games were the highest score. Yes a War Chariot is better than an immortal, but still having a chariot that can take out archers is a huge boost. I like Darius' traits...

Ok, I hear the advice here. Don't try and found a whole bunch of cities and expect an axe rush to work, if you do that, it needs to be super early, coming out of only 1 or 2 cities with lots of chopping and whipping. I think on my game tonight, I am going to try and found as many cities as I...

I am a long time player of Civ IV and played this game better many years ago, I took a long break from it before I picked it up again, and now it's driving me crazy that I can't beat the Emperor difficulty level like I used to do. I am stuck on Monarch, which is getting easier and easier to win...

Yeah I hear that, if you capture a lot of resource poor cities surrounded by uncleared jungle (and don't / can't clear it out) , desert, or tundra and hold on to those, even a courthouse won't solve your problems. That pillage money is addicting, but once your army runs out of nearby cities...

I also hear the two posts about binary research. I should try that in some of my future games where I don't get TOO overexpanded. I was loosing gold at 0% science there for a while, so building up my gold for a big science push was not an option.

Yeah, like I say on my game it was really about the same either way you did it, but I will try and remember to run build wealth if I have currency for future games.

I WAS loosing gold at 0%, that's what made me post about this. I figured it has happened to some other serious warmongers or REXers out there. You're right about having more cities, it seems like land is power. At first these little size 1 and 2 cities really strain your economy, but once you...

I played some last night and finally got code of laws with just 6 turns having most of my cities building wealth and running at 50% science. I immediately went up with courthouses in almost all my cities, and that seemed to fix my economy up pretty good. I have the Forbidden Palace going up in...

I tried switching over to build wealth in most of my cities (since I did have currency) and running up my science slider, but I was still getting about the same amount of gold per turn and research per turn doing it either way. I think those library multipliers must apply to build research too...

Back when I used to come on the forums a few years back, all the advice I seemed to get was don't let your science slider run below 60%. Since I have come back on here recently I have noticed that people are saying that's not a good rule. Am I to believe that you can run your science all the...

This was a good thread to read. I can relate to people that like to turn out all the lights while playing. My wife nags me and tells me I hurt my eyes by doing that, so I've tried to honor her request lately and leave the overhead light on while I play. Since I have restarted playing (I...

I enjoy playing on Monarch, that seems to be the level where you get a pretty good challenge out of the AI.