Recent content by DreamworK

hmmm...on the flipside of the continents map setting--you also realize that in many cases you (the player) can be the civ that can grow to immense power/tech lead while the other continent is warring constantly in earlier eras.

cyrus is fun to play if you are going all out for super promoted troops. if your style likes to build wonders, you could try a cyrus great wall strat where you focus on early wars inside your borders (extremely fast GGs), then use espionage and highly promoted mounted units in a later war to...

Ahhh... thanks for the info - i wasn't aware of the punctuation above the u. I was indeed pronouncing it short.

the game is more fun at difficulties lower than emperor. i understand what you mean about worrying about the game becoming more stressful--in order to win 95% of your games, you have to repeatedly check your trade screens for viable tech trades and very importantly gold trades (in order to...

i think the fact that dun is dominating this poll is due primarily to it's innately ridiculous name. it's called a dun for god's sakes. it just sounds like a joke -- even if it does have some uses, it's easy to see why people have singled this ub out as their respective redheaded stepchild (no...

@ inso I also like the idea of settling on the marble -- doesnt it give your city 3 hammers when marble is on a plains hill? This also opens up the opportunity of being able to work the incense fairly early (quite interesting it has the abnormal plains incense).

/agree

WTH is a road?

i'm surprised no one likes cyrus as their favorite? I LOVE him as a warmonger i love early war with immortals (or even without) cha gives early happiness, easy promotions for HE imperialistic means you get to grab those important resources faster, while also providing synergy with cha by...

i don't understand why people are stressing out so much about these spies... in the vast majority of my games, i usually do not get peace-time espionage against me unless i am leading very far in tech--in which case winning the game is almost entirely certain and the amount of difference...

three cheers for the gandalf quote <3 that jolly good fellow off topic, but i convinced my gf to read TLOTR two days ago, i'm psyched, but i had to compromise by reading the twilight books :-\

maybe it's possible the units have a base interception chance on a scale from 0.0-10.0 or something like that? so technically a %100 interception chance would be raising the individual unit's base maybe all units would then have a base under the 5.0 or something region? then you would only be...

Are you devoting enough of your early game to scouting out the available terrain? Most players agree that any given game's choice of strategy depends primarily on the map, secondly on the opponents, and lastly upon your leader's traits/unique buildings and units. Knowledge is indeed power and...

which china man are you?

well, i played the map over again, and this time i made a few optimizations--earlier cities post rush and changed my dot-mapping a bit i still decided to DoW twice on justinian, though--there were just too many free techs to be had when suing for peace. this game I was able to win lib myself...