Recent content by Dr Dinkindunkin

Shucks. It looks like I had too much real life this month, and I'm not going to have enough time to finish this one. I've submitted my game, retired as of 460 A.D., which means that I'll probably be one of the few submitting a loss for this one. Maybe I'll get the booby prize! I figured this...

IMHO, Emperor to Warlord is a suspiciously large drop. I smell.... 1) an April Fools' gag OR 2) some very twisted, monstrous modifications to the map. No resources, at all, anyone? Who knows? At any rate, seems to me it's worth playing anyway just to find out! I suspect that all of...

My game up to 500 AD is recorded in the first spoiler (post #124). To briefly recap: I have two very nice cities, Delhi (founded in place) and Bombay (founded on the marble to W, exerting pressure on Greek Thermopylae). Both of these have nice production, nice growth potential, and have been...

Playing on contender, even though this is my first Emperor game. The best way to learn how to swim is to jump right in, right? After reading some of the pre-game discussion thread, and after a very short practice game, I decided that it was possible to go for an early religion, so that was my...

As a Civ player, I am generally a man of peace, but I thought that this gotm would be the perfect chance to sharpen my warmongering skills. Unfortunately, I must still have a CivIII warmongering mindset. I made some pretty disasterous decisions early on and was all too keenly aware of how much...

Hi, fanatics! Been lurking since the summer of '05. I've learned a lot reading these fora, and I look forward to sharing my Civilization ignorance with the wider (weirder?) world.