Recent content by Corwin of Amber

Sadly I bungled the prebuild slightly and lost ToE by four turns, even though I had had the tech for about 8 turns, and wasn't about to pop a palace jump, I didn't have it complete yet and Rome snagged it. Now I am about five techs down and then they declared on me, attacking with tanks...

I'm doing pretty well, 2-3 techs behind now, have steam. I'm doing a ToE prebuild and crossing my fingers I can still pull that off. Deity is still new to me so this is a bit of a struggle, but I'm pleased. Probably will pull a rush and finish off Germany once I have rails connecting near and far...

I know I need help when I have to go back a few turns and replay things because cities I recently captured keep culture flipping. 'Unfortunately' :rolleyes: I have a Mac, so I can't use CivAssist so I have to sort of play 'blind' :scan: and save after almost every turn. :crazyeye: With a...

I captured GL from the Germans (in Berlin) and Leo's (in Konigsberg) which has been so great. But a real difficulty to keep from culture flipping. Actually disbanded a few armies of riders to rush University in Berlin and lessen my unit cost, which was out of control. - I had CAV so I didn't...

Are these cities 100% native pop?

Yeah this is a great kind of thing to use barricades for. I find them to be really good to have against CAV. I have had one border recently just about 8 tiles wide and my towns there have just one tile between them and the border. I'm China, so I want to be able to use Riders (Yes I'm behind in...

Settled in place. Got a good little factory going. Fought a few skirmishes with Germany, but kept the peace with Rome, acceded to a few small demands. Failed to hem them in well and they got a long border with me to the south. Got the slingshot to Republic, but fell way behind on other...

The best thing for me to do was to switch to Monarchy. I tried to make peace and stay with Republic but it didn't work out for me. By the time I was ready to fight again they had me waaaaay outnumbered and outgunned, with tanks, and I had only riflemen as they had the only rubber. So I went...

While this is true, if you throw in some gold you can still get some pointy stick research done. Not as effective though, to be sure.

I'm something like five techs behind. I had a bad start and made some mistakes, should have been more agressive in attacking my neighbor. I can still win though, and the game has been a good learning experience. I'll see how it goes with the WW and will consider a switch to Monarchy. I may try...

I'll try it. After the peace treaty expires I'll go after them again. They are a few techs ahead and are going to beat me to ToE so I have to be careful. AI can do scary things to you when they have railroads and tanks and I don't have rubber, so I'd be defending with rifleman until I take their...

I'm playing up on Demigod as Emperor is pretty comfortable for me now. I'm on a tiny map and it is down to me vs. Babylon. They've got a tech lead on me that I don't think I can bring back, as they have more land. So, I need to take that away from them. My warring with them is tending to drag...

I'm starting to feel that way about the Babs in every game. If I don't destroy them quickly, they always become a thorn in my side, a fly in my ointment, a spoiler before I watch my taped sporting event.

My wife sits there and knits while I play Civ 3. I'm not sure that I would want that delicate balance disturbed. :mischief:

Good tip LE!