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There was a thread on here that tried to explain this but for some reason I can't seem to find it. The gist of it was as follows: On the cultural victory screen, if you see, for example, 25/150, it means you are attracting 25 foreign tourists and you need 150 to win via culture. The 150 number...

It's a spy you have captured that he is negotiating the return of. Spies that fail their mission get captured and the AI will offer you stuff to return them.

If you still have the initial (4000 bc) save, I'd recommend posting it or at least keeping it around for yourself. There were a lot of easily correctable mistakes made in the opening 100-150 or so turns that have slowed you down a lot. While you can get away with them on this level, starting...

I think you need to reconsider either your city placement or tech choices here. You are not only working a lot of unimproved tiles (which is bad), but you are lacking at least 2 techs to fix the situation. Hamburg: This city isn't very productive for you right now. It's only food is a...

Sorry if I'm being a bit unclear. I've HA rushed lots of times before (on Monarch). Actually, I probably HA rush more than I should, but it's something I'm fairly used to doing. On the other hand, I've axe (or vulture or whatever) rushed one time ever, and it was just a really perfect situation...

Yeah I have limited experience with axe (or vulture) rushing so it's not something I feel comfortable doing on a difficulty level I can't consistently beat yet. I'm a lot more comfortable with using HAs, and relying on currency/CoL (or priesthood here) to recover economy after conquest. I get...

Alright, here's warring, through to 10 AD. We declare next turn and take the 'long' route to Moscow. Peter has a better defense at Novgorod; Moscow is poorly defended when we get there. Even with some poor luck on combat rolls, Moscow falls easily. We take Novgorod next, which is a...

Okay obviously I should be 2-pop whipping HAs here except in commerce city. I don't know why I don't do these things; I'm aware it's what's most efficient here but it's not quite habit for me yet so I tend to overlook them. Doing so earlier would have cut down on the number of turns until I was...

Alright played to 550 BC. Here's how it's going so far. SiP, and reveal another plains/cow, but unfortunately that 4th hill to the south will require sailing/galley to improve :mad: The city will be nice production though, with 4 hills + 2 plain/cows and enough food to support it, plus...

Alright, after my last attempt went rather poorly, let's play another game here and hopefully avoid some of the mistakes that derailed the last game (see here for the last attempt). I've now played about 5 or 6 emperor games and have 2 wins so far. All have been on the same settings, same as...

The barracks were built because I overexpanded early (did not realize maintenance costs were so much higher on emperor) and *literally* would go on strike if i built more units. I did not have alphabet yet (or currency) so all I could do was build stupid things until some techs were done...

Thanks for the feedback Seraiel. Most of it makes sense, I will say though that Canterbury was mostly just to block off the peninsula from Mansa so I could settle it peacefully. I think I can keep the lake tiles with a little bit of effort, and perhaps its not a terrible production city with...

Played a bit today, here's through 10 AD (there's no 1 AD on epic :D) Well apparently that 1 tile of fog SE of my capital was actually stone! So the options here seem to be either move site 'A' east to pick up the stone or move 'B' south. Moving 'A' 2E1N will let it share the wet corn...

Appears out of spoilers to me but in case anyone didn't see, yes this is on Epic. Thanks for the feedback, obviously there are a lot of things I haven't considered in initial city placement here, probably a byproduct of typically spending two seconds to look around then press 'b' :crazyeye: In...

After playing on and winning comfortably on Monarch for some time, I recently decided to try to move up a level. My first game I failed miserably when poor fogbusting and insufficient early defense allowed a barb spear to take a city. My second game I tried a HA rush. My first target was Sitting...