Recent content by da_Vinci

In the interest of full disclosure, I played the adventurer save, so should the diplo shield go to someone who played the contender? Zara's space ship was in the air for two turns when I finally got the votes (Zara built the UN for me, thank you very much) by getting Musa to friendly at the...

So if one is going to be Q rushing, one can't keep making them after both Hunting and BW, right? So does this tech nuance impact settling decision, if one was planning to delay hunting to keep making Q while having BW benefits? dV

A properly promoted at outset Humbaba destroyer, used judiciously, could allow one to see if the coast is clear to sneak a few galleys and galleons across some narrow straights. dV

You can name those barb subs Kraken. Kraken vs Humbaba (a destroyer)?

Maybe CIV IV Warlords should have been named "Vassalization I"? Which would make BTS "Vassalization II"? dV

I think that Buffy can be set to produce a victory save (at least I always see one generated by the game) which I have always assumed is the save before any action in the turn when the victory is announced (which is one turn after the victory is achieved in some cases) occurs, and is the save to...

Thanks Deckhand, thorough as always. And don't worry, I like my horses to be thoroughly beaten dead. Of course, also as always you were late ... as the need for the info already had passed :joke: I decided against risking getting a war I did not want, which turned out to be a good idea. dV

Can someone remind me about the mechanics around what happens if a civ you are at war with becomes someone else's vassal? Does that put you at war with the master, or force peace with the vassal (assuming that your pre-vassal state with the master was peace)? Although can the new vassal civ...

No post about the ins and outs of permanent alliances? If I remember right, you need 20 (or is it 40) turns of friendly (or is it defensive pact)? Things like that? Unless mapmaker provided them not for us to use but for AI to use against us? dV

I think steam has some so-called beta versions of the civ 4 series that are called "original version unsupported" that one can select by right clicking on those installs in steam and selecting properties and then the beta tab. I think those are compatible with HOF and GOTM or are very close to...

What makes BW safer, exactly? Didn't someone argue earlier that getting early BW and not finding copper could be problematic? Or was that in the context of not having horses, and BW helps with whipping in any case, and we will have horses. (Someone has to translate all this fifth...

Regarding 0 food for Zara, I suppose if you set a city and surrounded it with mountains, it would be unconquerable, right? Or could you nuke it to death? An AI bunker civ, immortal, surrounded by mountains, might not need to grow. Then we would all be going for space, after we learned the...

Sorry about the delay, my friend with cancer was readmitted to hospital yesterday, so been spending a lot of time there. Which means I won't be continuing to play on right now, so someone else should plan to move forward from here. Hope this works right for the saves. dV

Do you need the full saves or just the demo screens? I screened each of those during play. dV

Thoughts on the new scenario: Is it worth trying for a worker steal, and tying up NWar longer in the north? Getting one back alive might be progressively less likely as time goes on. There is a coastline in view by WWar, suggesting that perhaps the map landmass has an hourglass shape...