Recent content by Divaythsarmour

I've been playing Ricoteh's "Operation Barbarossa." Wow, what fun! It may not provide answers to questions like "what if Hitler had chosen to _______ instead of...." but it's close. I began at Brig General level playing as Germany. It was surprising how much the Soviets take the...

Is it that the AI doesn't use artillery or that it doesn't use it well? I've been playing Ricoteh and Savarok's Barbarossa scenario as the Germans. One single Soviet artillery piece shoots at my units in the captured city of Byalistok every turn. It's sitting in a forest square protected...

OK, I'll do that at the next opportunity. I'll describe the latest... It's January 1942 and I've taken Moscow. It's interesting how similar that timing is to actual history. Wehrmacht troops were in visual distance (maybe 20 miles) of Moscow before the Soviet counter offensive. That...

I chose to play this scenario at the Brig General level. I found it to be much harder in the first few moves than it is on the approach to Moscow. I'm curious to know how difficulty level effects the play in this scenario. I sense that no one is reading these posts. After all, I'm writing...

I finally got this scenario going. Wow!!!! :D I played around with the first turn a couple of times and felt too exposed to the counter attacks. I lost way too many units. It's as if my moves too closely resembled what the Germans did. Since there's no need to be concerned about enemy...

Thanks Angelle. I'll look for that file. I assume it's in the file called "East" not the art and text file, correct?

I'm a beginner to adding a scenario to the game. I really want to try this one as I've always wanted to know what would have happened if _____________________. I believe I've followed the instructions correctly. When I do so, I can't find the scenario when I open the game. I'm not sure what...

That looks very cool! I've never done an on line game before. How's the learning curve on something like this?

Are there any good scenarios where a player gets to make similar decisions as when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in WWII? I can't help but wonder what would have happened if: they had gone with Guderian's idea of running stripped down highly mobile panzer divisions supplied by air...

Thanks Ataxerxes! It's good to be back. I was able to win a domination game, although technically speaking I had cavalry at the time of the win. Most of what got me there were the horsemen and then the riders. It was the strangest game I ever played. I was way behind on techs all...

Heck I went and took Delhi and Bangalore with a stack of 5 archers. Then I demanded Gandhi give me 3 techs. :) Your point is understood and well taken.

I've played Civ 3 for eight years and I still didn't know you could change difficulty levels after you've started a game. How do you do that?

I suppose taking the capitals is more of an early game idea as they won't be destroyed the same as population 1 cities. It would be interesting to compare republic and monarchy with most other variables equal. My concern with republic's higher unit cost. But I suppose it has other...

I struggle to win domination strategies on small maps playing at monarch level. I have an idea for how to do it with China. Here it is: China is industrious and militaristic. Build a barracks first in the capitol and then toggle between archers and settlers at proper intervals maintaining...

I just thought of something else. Typically, if you're at Monarchy, the only thing between you and Chivalry is all those techs you missed (while beelining) plus feudalism and monotheism. You can easily demand all the ancient era techs for peace from one or more of your AI victims. By then you...