Recent content by danshep8

Yes, there may be two transports but they only carry one artillery unit (all units appear to embark on two ships). It's a pity that the thing was out of moves, otherwise we might have some idea how far these transports move per turn.

Whilst I can sympathize with players who feel hard done by when they loose battles which were in their favour with a 99% chance to win or something, I personally dislike the idea of a totally (or even partially) deterministic combat system. I like the fact that in CIV combat result are never...

If that turns out to be correct it would be another good strategy choice - 1./ Don't build an Armory, say, and be able to put more swordsmen in the field 2./ Go for a smaller but more powerful army with augmented abilities

^ That is a good point, you'd probably find yourself with a great deal of surplus iron upon having upgraded your obsolete longswordsmen. *edit and all of the trebuchets.

Exactly. It's a good example of the gameplay>realism maxim.

I suspect that it may have something to do with the fact that the cannon is the only land based ranged unit in the renaissance era?

It would seem that the Trireme does not require any iron

Yeah, sorry eireksten , I should have read a little more of that thread. I suppose it suffers just as much as the pentagon method when it comes to gameplay, as will any attempt to tile a sphere with hexes. I'm not an expert but thinking about it, it doesn't matter what polyhedron (Platonic or...

eireksten, have you seen orthoceros' solution? http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=356334. I haven't looked closely at it but he seems to deal with some of the game mechanics issues at the cost of having a few slightly overlaping hexes.

Yeah guys, I should probably state again that I think the pentagon issue can't be circumvented in terms of the game-play. I just wanted to produce these images for the visuals really, the pentagons would truly be a nightmare to deal with by any game engine. I've included an image below...

Hi all, New poster here! Whilst browsing these forums I got interested in the idea of a more spherical civ world, and there have been some great threads (like this) on the subject. I came across the icosahedron based method first (with 12 unavoidable pentagons), and I decided to dust off...

Hi all, I've been playing Civ games on and off for a while now, I've played pretty much all the versions excepting CivI, CivII and Civ Revolutions. I don't generally frequent game forums but I found this one whilst trying to get info on the upcoming Civilization V game. I'm looking...