Recent content by Crafty Bison

Yes, settle on the deer. Being the Inca doesn't change much: - Many of the TF spots are filled with sheep, in order to get a better outcome for TFs in your 3 ring (ok on the deer you may need to buy a tile or two), you'd need to settle on one of the sheep anyway, which kind of defeats the...

In your tourism screen, it gives the number of hidden sites still to be dug up. You could find a save before the incident, then play up to it and see if the number changes when they settle - or just load a game as a test, and settle one on a site yourself, checking the same figure.

They are weak enough only for a minor change, befitting of this thread. However, the reason I'd like to do a do-over is their style, which not only breaks the rules of the game, but would have been completely different if they'd not been a vanilla civ. I'd also like to see multiple civs from...

Netherlands, Carthage and Venice out, India, Japan and Ottomans in. Japanese zero is replaced by dojo UU, which replaces the armoury - melee units built with a dojo the Aztec UA. India, Imo needs a complete do-over, so I won't put my suggestions here. Ottomans - UA also gets gold for naval...

Obviously superior? even without being prompted by Celts as an option, johncnunn, princeofnigeria and myself have all said they wouldn't take Celts first for a religious civ, just from the first page of responses. Also, the rest of the pollers take your conditions as axiomatic and therefore do...

Yes. I'm asking why this is the case, not wondering if they were forgotten. They're not the consensus number one civ, so it feels odd to make this list without them.

Why exclude the Celts from the list? As for me, though I love the pictish warrior, I'd go Byzantium, as I think their UA is the most interesting religious one. I think the one I'd be strongest with of the list given is the Mayans. Of unconsidered civs, I'd say Siam, which is a civ I love anyway...

Oh no! Now you'll be forced to spend your faith points on something actually useful, like great people. There are far worse things than 'missing out' on a religion (for starters I'd have been more annoyed at wonder-failing on SH), though thinking about it, they were mainly removed when early...

I'd rather have the movement than foreign lands bonus, and the healing over pillage(you can only pillage once per tile without an army of workers, and for spears, many tiles are not improved, and you can't pillage your own tiles). The faith is moderated by the lack of bonus versus mounted...

Try Portugal. Also, why does the OP always start with no scout on continents? It's a pretty standard first build unless you are on archipelago or are aiming at an early UU, especially now the AI is toothless early, and early wars give such serious diplo hits. There's also a deity...

Would rather have Immortals. Especially post-civil service :). Actually I'd rather have pictish warriors as well. From a purely aesthetic view though, both hoplites and immortals are some of the best looking units in the game imo.

It's become a luxury to ask this question now with the pacified early warring, which used to answer the question for you as you knew you'd need several archers super early. For me, no, I rarely build any early, because you can either farm barbs for the first 30, or if you actually need them...

I think the Nau bonus scales with map sizes. I can get 300-350 gold whether it be a standard or a huge map. To answer the OP, you want to be on a big map with lots of water (Naus explore faster, there are more resources, and you want as many cargo ship routes as possible), and it sounds like...

You're both incorrect. Any civ can be played any way you want them to be played, all you have to do is stop listening to people dictating pointless rules on otherwise fine forums such as this, and play the game the way you want to. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Depends - If you're talking about the civilisations as represented by the game, then just check the dates of the leaders - I guess it would be Babylon, but may Egypt or Assyria. As for the civilisation itself, it's not always easy to define whether predecessors should be considered part of...