Recent content by Firebot

Thanks for the opinions and suggestions; I went with the build them all plan :lol:. Since it seems that overlapping is not much of a concern as long as you have at least 4 tiles in between, I decided to have 4 cities, rushing to get settlers happiness permitting. I started with the GBR site to...

I'm at work right now so can't really double check from inside the game, but at that point of the game I'm 10 turns away from the GL, and timed it so that as soon as I'm done philosophy I'd slingshot to Civil Service and the Medieval Time. A quick note for fun since there's a fair bit of...

So I'm playing as Mongols on King, random standard map (still fairly new at Civ 5 but played Civ 4 a fair bit). It's very early on, I'm still not sure what the map type is yet, but it looks like it may be Archipelagos. If it's Archipelagos, I only have 1 civ next to me and 1 CS. To the left of...

Alex's goal is world domination. He's the leader which I trust the least since now matter how friendly you are with him, he's really only looking for the best opportunity to attack you. You can usually tell when he's preparing for a war against you, when all the 'declare war' choices are red...

Next time don't alienate the whole world:p.

It depends on the starting location, leader, etc...If you have one set way of playing you won't go far at higher difficulties where you must take full advantage of what is offered to you. One loose rule I do though, is I will try to use a warrior to pick off a worker or two from another civ if...

Sadly, while I did great in my test games and even had my highest scoring game in one, my GotM was horrible on some really bad decisions and really really bad luck dealing with the AI. While I didn't technically lose, I am not going to be submitting my game as I am still a fair bit away from a...

A gunship can even destroy modern armour without flinching. I saw the sheer power of Gunships once when Tokugawa sent a stack of gunships unprovoked against my stack of modern armour that I used in a game to dominate. I thought he was crazy until every single modern armour was destroyed leaving...

It doesn't work, heck it does the opposite of the desired effect. You pay for the military cost of your total military units based on Pacifism regardless of what other civics you may have, and vassalage only gives a benefits to total UNITS, not military units. This is what I had before I...

If you declare war on them, they will stop producing spaceship components and go for military. You can test it out by having your spies go to cities that are building components so you can see their progress, then declare war (or have another civ declare war against it) and see their production...

There is no 'upkeep' in Civ 4 like there was in previous Civ games. You pay for the cities, how many you have and how distanced they are, but not for the buildings / improvements in the cities. You also pay for military units that are in 'surplus' based on your difficulty (i.e. you get 12 free...

Always work towards what you are given on your first turn or your civ's strengths. Early religion shouldn't even be tried at all unless you are a spiritual leader, and even then it may do you more harm then good by alienating all the other civs (I never convert to a religion unless I know I can...

Have another civ or two declare war on the new aggressor to keep them occupied:). Whenever I get in a fight I don't want yet, or someone joins in while I'm occupied in another war, I always look at my diplomatic options and see if anyone is angry enough with the agressive civ to go to war...

So far in my last 3 Monarch games, I've always built the Great Library AND the Hanging Gardens, and completly ignored all the other early wonders. The Hanging Gardens I find to be extremely undervalued, giving health and a population boost at what I find a critical part of the game, and is often...

I am pretty sure your money troubles are mainly due to unit supply and maintance, one of the biggest differences I saw from Prince to Monarch and one you might not realize. In Prince you won't notice unit cost much since you get so many free units, but on Monarch you get a very heavy fee placed...