Recent content by CynicalMagician

Agreed. I've really been enjoying these, especially since you've moved to Imm/deity.

Noble to Prince is not a big leap, because AIs still start with warriors just like you. If you're always winning on noble then you will do just fine on Prince.

It's definitely patched as kossin says, happened in 3.13. Weak.

If you suspect an AI will capitulate to another AI and you don't want them to, try bribing the stronger opponent to end the war. That will buy you a bit of time. I don't understand the vassalizing mechanics very well myself, but learning the rules of what causes a civ to vassalize and how likely...

If you have 1 woods 3 unit and 1 supermedic GG unit (ie. combat 1 and up to medic 3), are the unit healing bonuses from these two units additive, or do you need to have all the promotions on the same unit for wounded units on the same tile to heal at the max rate? For example, in the Rome NC...

Monarch/Epic, 200AD

Lacunaa - Woods 3 healing works anywhere, not just on forest/jungle tiles. I think that's a good placement for Antium. That's where I placed it in my game. I wish I had more time, I want to continue this game.

My favourite part of doing this is when an AI civ gets killed, and then later in the game you get to take over a barbarian Mutal or what have you.

to dalamb regarding city placement

Well, first you start up MAPLE or Matlab, then you look in help for the derivation syntax...

Myst before masonry would make more sense, because myst gives you a discount on masonry.

How much bang you get for a GA is mostly dependent on how big your empire is, because civics changes take longer when you're larger, because the more tiles you work the more bonus hammers/commerce you get, and because the more specialists you're running, the more bonus GPP you'll get. Size is a...

I will play this one when I get home from work. I would definitely think about taking a run at stonehenge by settling on the stone. 3 hammers for the capital + it saves you quarrying the stone, + you gain the 2nd fish. Unfortunately, you only have 1 guaranteed mine, but you have a lot of dark...

This place is great. I've been lurking here a long time. I rarely have the time to play a full game of civ but I love reading game writeups by the really good players around here.

I like that even though this is the civ4 S&T forum, he still got an answer about a sophisticated particle physics question within 6 minutes.