Recent content by doyen

Thank you!

I just bought Warlords after a hiatus from CivIV, and am quite unhappy. All the great CivIV music is gone, and replaced by a bunch of crappy sythesized junk. Is there a way to get the great music from CivIV to work when I play Warlords? I appreciate your help. If I can't get the music to...

I greatly overestimated the strength of the AI. I researched to CoL, then used the oracle to get civil service. Then I researched machinary. The upshot is that I beelined to macemen, and that slowed me down considerably. Because the macemen move so slowly it took me until about 1000ad to...

I'm glad these seem to be useful to people. Next month I'll do ten again. I appreciate all the feedback. I'm especially glad when people talk about the strategies they use during the practice games. It helps me with my own game.

Doh!! Thanks for pointing that out, Karmina. Somehow I managed to end up thinking that both hills were plains hills. Sorry about that. I didn't know what was in the SE dark corner, but I guessed that the two southmost tiles from east to west were desert, and the two eastmost tiles were...

Here are the five practice games this month. Feedback is appreciated. I'm trying to figure out an appropriate number of maps. Last month I did ten. Should I do five more this month, or is five sufficient?

Were you playing on adventurer? That is kinda important.

This post will describe how my game went. I played contendor (the normal version). I am attaching five pictures. In the first you can see the locations of my first two cities. In the second picture you can see the location of my third city. In the third picture you can see how close...

Jorunkun, thanks much for your advice. I am trying to apply it, though that can be tough sometimes. :)

I don't see the point of splitting the spoilers up. I'll tell my whole story at once when it's time for the second one.

I have been winning easily on the following settings: Monarch/marathon. This months GOTM was Emp/normal. I'm not certain if it was the emp or the normal setting that got me... or both. I quickly lost the GOTM, and so have spent the last several days trying to get a win on these settings. I...

Your welcome. I'll be glad to do it next month. Hopefully I'll get every map right the first time, next time. :-)

Here they are. If anyone else finds something fishy, please just tell me, and I'll make modifications.

Thank you very much for pointing this out. After looking back the saves, I found similar problems with 1,2,3, and 5. In 1,2, and 3, the hill in the NE was plains instead of grasslands. In 1 and 5 the lake was missing one commerce. I made the changes, and will repost the improved saves below...