Recent content by Exwing17

Place your cities closer together! In the first screeny you posted there was a line of your cities to the NW, I wouldn't have stretched that far! Its always nice to have more cities from an aggressive expansion phase, but when you have cities that are isolated from your main power house, they...

Telling people to give you things only rarely works, I find you have to have a huge military might for them to comply! Best way is to take something by force, i don't know if you all had heard of a minor recent conflict called "The War in Iraq". In Civ terms, the biggest Civs ran out of Oil...

You research other things before Military Tradition? Mate as soon as I hit the middle ages I double click on that cavalry created wonder-tech and just leave my science to play! Just remember that warring people is fun, and cavalry make it funner! No one ever won a war with Smith’s Trading...

I always use it...There is nothing better than being able to produce shed loads of Infantry & Artillery each turn, and railroads just make this whole system better. Oh...low on armies, not anymore! It's like the Somme all over again, Kitchener's New Army ready to take the field!

The problem with that is that I haven’t even circumnavigated my own continent. My western & northern coastal cities are all tundra (sci farms [a bad ones at that]), so I haven’t been able to produce anything worthwhile from them. My eastern cities are far more hardcore, but at the...

A tale of two continents… Hello all, Recently I have made the jump up to Emperor, and I think I’m going ok so far. I have got some bad habits off a friend by starting new games quite often after learning things, and thus far have only lost one game (I didn’t have iron and was next to two...

I have to agree about Paratroopers, (they even look stupid!!) I thought they would be a great way to send guys behind enemy lines to take & hold Resources & Luxuries. But they have a range of about 8 and die pretty damn fast. Marines are incredibly useful, i tend to go for the 'Iwo Jima'...

Rapid Early eXpansion. Key to winning any game! Spread out hard & fast, and war in the same way!

Ottomans or Mayans own. But i always seem to pick the english...i cant resist the call of "rule britainia"

-=5 points that changed my Civ career=- 1) Use the Republic 2) Use the Luxury Slider 3) Use CXXC 4) Limit your wonders to only the really good ones. 5) You don't need ANY city improvements, just build what your empire lacks. 5a) Trade :)

Pre-Motorised Transport, there is nothing that can compete with Infantry/Arty SoD. I play Emperor, and last night I had the BEST, and i mean BEST battle ever. I had a stack of 30 Infantry, backed by 22 Artillery, and then out of the Indian's land pops a stack of 40 Inf, 12 cav and 10...

Hmm...i'd say its mixed ways! If i really start to like a period of time in Civ, then I tend to read a lot more about it IRL! Now, as you probably know, I love Infantry in Civ and it was spurned my the book that i'm reading 1914 1918: A History of the First World War. I was amazed at how Civ...

Some cultures/empires had very long lives as well, and as you mentioned often had numerous highs. Its also very difficult to gauge when a civilizations height was... For example, India has ghandi as its leader, and a war elephant as its UU. That would imply that when India was at its golden...

Thats why we love Civ man :) I always play hoping to get an amazing WWI situation, where the sh*t hits the fan and its global war. Everytime I get something different, and its always just as fun :)

I just learn things each game...different tactics, different styles. I play Monarch at the moment, but will be venturing forward into Emperor this weekend! I made this decision after always being able to beat the computer at Monarch, in any wars, because they don't have tactics. And I want...