Recent content by Derakon

The only time I ever found myself building it (outside of cultural victories, of course) was in a protracted culture war. I suppose you could also use it to help bring semi-distant resources into your cultural borders without settling a new city near them.

The difficulty I have with 2-move units is typically in integrating them into a mixed-force assault unit. It's hard to justify building lots of cavalry if I still have to wait for my cannons to reach the city, for example. I know about the city-revolt trick, but it seems really expensive in...

In most games from Monarch on up, founding Buddhism / Hinduism is a crapshoot; the AI techs faster than you do and odds are good at least one AI will have Mysticism and go for one of those religions. Plus you're generally better off in the early game going after worker techs. Even if you do...

That's why I'm posting about trade routes. Way to contribute.

Trade routes only get the value bonus if the target city is on a different continent. Just being coastal doesn't help them any. However, I think cities on lakes still get the +2 trade routes from the Great Lighthouse. As for where to settle, I'd say it depends on if you plan to take out de...

Oh, I know about that. I was referring to the "You should change your civic!" "What do you want to research?" icons. Which isn't to say that I plan on chopping down that plains forest.

Go west, and then rush Huayna Capac with chariots to secure the copper site. Securing copper is very important, unless there's iron available -- but you don't know if iron is available, so best to play it safe.

You might well be running Universal Suffrage by that point, in which case you can just outright buy a culture-producing building. However, I can't remember the last time I had a new city that needed to compete culture-wise in the late game. The obvious case would be a newly-conquered city...

I think I confused the game's "what do you want to do next" prompter. (Also, apparently Genghis won't accept peace if you don't beat his skull in first. I could be at war for awhile...naturally, he's long-since declared peace with Sitting Bull, who was the one that asked me to join in in...

Well, if you know where on the map the city is, you can click on the minimap to instantly scroll there. I'm not aware of any other ways to move the view around, but I've hardly done an exhaustive search of the command list.

Withdrawal is also useful for attacking cities without siege. Your first few attackers are unlikely to win, but if you give them Flanking II, they have decent odds of surviving, and they'll have weakened the defenders so that your followup attackers can win.

Different people play the game differently. Just because you and I wouldn't want to see AI vs. AI animations doesn't mean other people shouldn't either.

You could also say that by favoring building farms over cottages, you have put yourself into a situation where you're more likely to rely on the draft. A cottage-based economy would have a better tech rate and might not need to draft so heavily. In other words, you're in a self-reinforcing...

The same goes for workers, incidentally. The conventional wisdom is to build a worker first, then build other things (e.g. warriors, barracks, work boats) until the city is at least size-3 before building your second settler.

Especially since Charismatic makes Monuments give +1:). So early game, you're running around with cities that can get 2 more population points than anyone else can, which can be quite significant. That's extra happy for whipping, and at the very least it makes running specialists easier.