Recent content by fmlizard

As someone who has written AI behavior and recommendation rules for software before, one that has a ton of input variables and user behaviors like Civ does, I can say that it is not nearly as easy as it looks to hit a perfectly fair and balanced rule set on day 1. Essentially, they released...

I just bagged my first Immortal win as Kamehameha. OCC Cultural. The big key for me was the Moai, Great Artists settled as landmarks, and getting to Hermitage early. Moai can really be awesome if you have lots of coastline. I was getting several 5 and 6 culture coast tiles.

Forgot to add - I play the game with this machine at max resolution (1920) and all graphics settings on High. Anyone with a Mac from the last 2 years should be able to run this game maxed out.

It seems as if Tokugawa, because of his raging isolationism, is always an easy kill because he is usually very backward technically. I always find him invading me with samurai and maybe a smattering of knights when I have cavalry, cannons, and riflemen. He is always the tech laggard every game...

I have seen barbarian infantry and SAM infantry before...waiting for my first barb tank, or barb Stealth Bomber. It was off in the new world, and nobody really got around to taking it over, mainly because it was pretty heavily garrisoned...it was a serious capital city, size 15, with farms...

Somehow, I won my first Prince game a couple weeks back with a group of death on one continent with me...Alexander, Tokugawa, and Kublai Khan as neighbors, with Mansa Musa sitting off to the side tech racing the bejesus out of me. I almost reset after seeing that draw, but I killed off...

Seriously, every time I play with Alexander, it turns into an orgy of war. He will pick a fight even if I have double troops and am on another continent (just a slow trickle of boats bringing hopelessly outmatched troops). If he is a neighbor, its immediate beefing of the army, because no...

That many games in a row without copper or iron? I usually research bronze working very early and then find a copper deposit. That is where I make my second city. Sometimes you have to reach a bit for placement, but its worth it. Nothing worse than having barb axemen rampaging your civ when...

I am a crazed wonder builder who starts to hate the game if I am not Industrious. Qin Shi Huang is by FAR my favorite leader. (Fin/Ind) I usually play Prince and win. Here are the wonders I find absolutely essential...as soon as I can build them, I drop everything and chop it out, or buy it...

I think its a sign you need to go kick some tail and invade someone. That will give them something to do. My workers always complain about having to scrub fallout, but its better than being hit by the bomb...

War elephants are mostly good for wiping out an opponent's Axemen and Crossbowmen as they are not a melee unit and have considerably more strength.

Spearmen just absolutely owned my herd of war elephants (I had 7 ivory resources but no copper or iron) in a recent game. Build spearmen.

Ya I never used the culture slider unless I was getting very close to a cultural victory and wanted to make sure I got it...then I spent 30 or so turns with 90% culture and 0% tech.

Personally I find later war much easier, since I can distinguish myself much more against the AI...Modern Armor, Gunships, and an air campaign look pretty good against infantry, cavalry, and frigates. Add in the essential war wonders of the Pentagon and the Kremlin, and I find late war to be...

I got Washington DC to 37 once on a massive flood plain with corn, sheep, and pigs. The game lasted until 2045 when I won a space race. I had Beijing in a recent game at 22 when the next largest city in the world was 10...I was thinking the Chinese had some sort of population explosion...