Recent content by DCL

"In short, forts are generally best for everything but defending your units there :P Stationing units near a city is stupid compared to stationing them in the city itself." Exactly, that's what, before I started this thread, had me scratching my head as to why the developers included them in...

Yeah it was a good game probably my favorite of all of Sid's TBGs the original civ included. Forget a sequel I'd love to see them just update the ai and keep everything else the same. Great game I think I might go dig it out again and play it. :)

Thanks for the correction. That's odd but not once in my many games I have played have I lost one tile due to GW if there have never been nuclear weapons fired. I've been playing quite a few times but the highest level I have been playing is on noble though, strange that it hasn't happened to me...

I think civ 4 BTS is a tremendous game but I might be alone in this I miss the pollution model that the original civ had. In civ 4 global warming is only caused by nuclear war if I'm not mistaken. In the original civ if memory serves your industries caused pollution which had a big effect on the...

Thanks for that inf. Dumb me I couldn't figure out why, when I automated my workers, they kept building forts over resources instead of the applicable improvement there . So I would just unautomate, go back and build the correct improvement on that square(I would go back and build a mine on a...

Ok I did a little experimenting with the map builder and the only way forts will let you go through a land mass is if that fort is built on a 1 tile wide (or maybe 2 tile wide with 2 diagonal forts) land area. So in that case it just acts like a city and will let your ships cut through. I was...

Usually I find forts a waste of time to build (someone can suggest stuff I'm missing tough sometimes they do serve me a a good outpost for planes but I find that's it is rare for me to get to use them that way in a game...) but I think I finally found a way to use them! I'm sure this has been...

Thanks. I went on to lose that game and have now started a new one. I'm definitely doing better at it because I have started on a bigger land mass. Nice to know very few starts are unwinnable (unlike colonization, for me at least) but like I said I do have more problems when I start on a smaller...

Well once again to prove how bad I am I'm getting my butt kicked on a new map (I won that other noble land-based map though BTW) Just wondering what strats you guys use when you start on a smaller continent with one other race (Gilgamesh in my case who took too long for me to beat I think...

Thx. Just curious but how do I improve the tundra forest? I can't build a sawmill there yet cause I don't have the tech yet and most of the tundra forest squares I can't build farms.. Do I just chop the forests down?

Thx. After 1320 I did start building some courthouses, using slavery to speed some up and that helped a bit. I'll work on the cottages next. Anyway thx...

And now Louis is pulling way ahead of me. (Even William van Oranje with 4 freaking cities is ahead of me..) This is what I don't understand. If I could just understand how Louis who, looking at the worldbuilder, has a largest city at 10, and not that big of an empire, can get all that tech I...

Thx for the offer. I could use a tip for what I'm doing wrong in my present game. This is good example of the trouble I get into on the lowly noble level. (Man do I stink)Anyway I saw a opportunity to take out Ceasar's empire (I had a better military what the heck) and I did. The problem is now...

Yeah you're right. I'd love to be able to join A multiplayer game and just watch too bad that's not an option.. :(

I overwrite my savegames so all I have is this save after Zara has won a space race victory against me (dan0808). Kublia Kahn was the one that even though he had many less cities then I did (30 for me compared to 7 for him) was always able to stay way ahead of me in tech. I got closer at the...