Recent content by DB_Terror

Paratroopers and helicopters are pretty good for pillaging resources. In my last game, I played at monarch level, and used a helicopter carrying an infantry unit to pillage my enemy's oil. For some reason, he never rebuilt that road so he wasn't able to make any tanks or modern armor after that...

If you improve your core cities first and then move your palace, your ex-core cities end up producing slightly better than your new colonies. Building a courthouse in a remote city usually takes 80 turns because corruption only leaves you one shield, and then the courthouse only increases the...

You can't rebuild the Forbidden Palace, but you can rebuild your palace. That might take ages, so you might want to use a great leader to hurry it up. You should also improve your current capital and the surrounding cities first before you move the palace away. Most importantly, build...

If it's in your territory, you see it automatically - no need for a unit to be close by. Similar to enemy movements.

Just keep in mind, folks, that this is just what YOU will want to do. If I can see one player getting too powerful, I'd definitely give techs to other players to help me attack that powerful player, and sign ROP treaties. I'd focus on defending my strategic resources - taking them out is one of...

In my last game, I had strategic resources disappear quite often but each time, the same resource re-appeared at a different location in the same turn, and within my territory. I was probably lucky that it kept re-appearing in my territory since it was rather big. So it seems like whenever a...

I just built a couple of cruise missiles but can't find a way to use them effectively. OK I can move them around on my continent via railway, and I can bombard with them - but bomardment has a range of only two tiles! I can't load them on transports or carriers. So my questions are: Can I load...

Ohwell: You said you use subs for coastal bombardement...was that a typo, or am I missing something here? I agree with most of you - subs should have an attack bonsus vs all other ships except destroyers, and destroyers should have a bonus vs subs.

What I usually do is have my cities build settlers, settlers and then some more settlers until I have colonized all the free space I have. Only if a city has less than 3 pop I'd queue something else, like a defender or a granary. My capital produces two warriors upfront, one for defense and one...

I usually try and keep a balance between settlers and units. I have some cities making settlers, and 2 or 3 making units (chariots, horsemen, swordsmen) and harrass my neighbors. In my current game, I'm playing Japanese on Monarch so I got the wheel immediately. I also had horses in my...

I'm totally with hellfire. Save game, plant spy, reload if it fails. TheDS, the AI does use spies. I'm currently in a Monarch game, and am fighting a modern age war. I had to go to Communism because war weariness was too high in both Republic and Democracy. The AI stole my military plans...

Does anyone know some useful things to do with submarines? I've never managed to sink a battleship with a sub - so what's the point of them?

I haven't used nukes yet but am getting curious now. Do nukes harm your overall score?

Some more thoughts: Use your quick units to pillage the enemy's key resources, e.g. horses, iron or saltpeter. Find bottlenecks in the enemy territory and pillage roads to cut off his luxury / resource supply. If necessary, take a ship to send your units to pillage the resources.

Grey Knight, I personally would stay in monarchy until the war is over. War wariness could outweigh the advantage of being in republic. If I were you, I'd save the game, try either option, then reload and try the other ;) Talking of governments, I've come to like switching back and forth...