Recent content by diz2

But, you won't keep it so it's only a play that works on the last city. But basically I agree with the earlier comment that you're going to have to defeat the whole army to take and hold the capital. The AI unit carpet as thick as it once was, but if you snipe the capital of an 8-10 city...

I tend to roll over the civs in a logical fashion (e.g., more or less east-to-west, north-to-south,etc), not take the capitals in isolation. I would think just taking capitals does not get the juggernaut rolling the same way as taking all their lands. You would also have issues with...

I really never had any problem dominating with bombers (once I had enough of them), and as I mentioned previously the time between bombers and stealth bombers is pretty quick now (2 techs, I think - Laser then Stealth) and the upgrade is dirt cheap.

Hmmm, well, I never re-roll. But the point here is that the AI can be dominated late game with regular bombers just fine. And even bombers themselves have a short shelflife now that it seems the time gap between regular bombers and stealth bombers is pretty quick, and the upgrade is cheap.

Since I usually play continents, Immortal and am partial to domination victores I end up doing a lot of late game fighting on the second or third continent. The reality is that all civs are about equal in the late game if you spent the early-mid game rolling over your own continent. The only...

Did you check to see if you still have the same number of specialists? Maybe some more citizens were auto-allocated into specialist slots after adopting the policy. However, I have also noticed unexpectedly large happiness boosts from time to time. I wonder if there may be somthing bugged...

I find it particularly annoying that it doesn't get the basic concept of finance right. Borrowers pay interest. If I'm going to give you 300 now, I need to get more than 300 back in the future. Why would I ever give you 300 now to get back 6 gpt for 30 years? I give up 300 gold to get...

A tip I seldom see for a warmongering puppet-based strategy: Extra happiness will just get soaked up by pop growth in a big puppet empire. Be careful with it. Do not trade for luxuries unless you really need them. (like to move from a -12 to a -8). Never even try to move a +1 to a +5. You...

On the plus side, it can be a big happiness booster.

I always try to puppet as a rule, but there sometimes comes a point where the end is near and you're not going to get many more SPs anyway but happiness is slowing you down (e.g, flirting with -20 if you keep conquering.) At this time it seems like you can manage happiness better by annexing...

I find I don't sepcialize cities as much these days. Not sure exactly why. I try to keep the number of controlled cities to a minimum (~4 on average, I'd guess) and do a lot of puppeting and CS alliances. Puppets get all TPs to keep growth down and gold up. My Non-puppets I usually want...

After latest patches I typically pick liberty too. I used to do tradition but it seems to have been nerfed too much, and my startup strategies have shifted a bit to adapt to the superior and more agressive AI. Even though I am a domination victory type I have very little experience with the...

In most games it seems like one of the AI makes an big effort to ally the CSs and the others do not. I try to ally CS once I get things rolling, and find that usually one AI civ will make a half hearted effort to take them away, and others just have no interest. After the UN is built, they...

Yes, I do tend to try and crush my neighbors, but I still don't get the calculus. Even if you're turtling up and your goal is protection from invasion, keeping the unit is more "protection from invasion" for you than giving it to the AI isn't it?

I have no reason to doubt you, but that seems like the wrong way to do it... So, bascially the unit will always have one skill fewer than it otherwise would forever. But, this still beats being dead.