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It will only appear in the trade if they have one spare, so that means they need at least 2 Uranium before they will trade it. They also need the appropriate tech before they can trade it.

You can't build hospital until you have researched Sanitation at the start of the Industrial age.

You can get a lot for trading it so go for it. Tip: sometimes you can do a luxury resource "swap". For example: you have 1 furs and China has 2 gems. China wants a second luxury and doesn't have fur. You trade fur for gems and China is willing to give you other stuff such as techs in...

I keep walls, if the city falls below size 7 again for whatever reason, such as building worker/settler, draft, pop rush, famine or war then the wall will be used again. Walls don't cost any upkeep and you don't get much money if you sell them. I like the look of the broken walls, its the...

Zachriel suggests not using GL's for armies but in my current game I'm at the end of the Industrial era so there aren't any wonders to build. If your in the middle of a war and don't have any wonders to build then build an army instead, it's not worth waiting as you can only have one GL. If...

Under Monarchy, Republic and Democracy you can rush build units using cash. This could be seen as hiring mercinaries.

You also see production 9999 on City's during Anarchy. Tip: when changing governments and you go into Anarchy the City Advisor will tell you how many more turns till you can pick the a new government.

Bear in mind that each population face requires 2 food, a surplus is then needed for growth. The center square is worked for "free" and then each population face can be set to work squares within the city's radius. That means that if on average you have 2 food per square the city will grow...

Why was this moved to the creation & customization forum? The combat tables are for when you are playing the game, not when creating something.

This will prove very useful LoneWolf, thank you. I'm often about to start a battle and want to check the odds. Starting up a battle calc is tedious so having this to hand is er... handy! ;)

Good thinking ainwood. You certainly don't want to make it compulsory as you have to buy it. GOTM and GOTMexp :).

"Japs" is racist? WTH did get that from? I suppose "Yanks" and "Limies" (sp?) is racist too? Pfft.

Very nice post robinm, thanks. I've used Artillery/Cavalry/Infantry stacks in this way successfully before, it takes patience but you hardly take any losses. In my current game the usefulness of my Cossacks is coming to an end as the Germans now have Riflemen. Whilst I wait for Tanks I will...

I've used a line of fortresses to seal a border several times. The AI often will refuse to attack the units in the fortresses, especially if they are on hills/mountains, so you can avoid wars that would've happened otherwise. For instance in one game for centuries I had a border with Germany...

Instead of labouriously patrolling an area I just use a line of ships. If you put them close enough together so they can see the whole of the line then you can watch any ship ativity in that area, you can do the same on land too.