Recent content by Foamy7

Hmmm. AI throwing huge stacks of obsolete units at you? I don't know that I've ever encountered that before. :D You can account for it in one of 2 ways - either he decided that massing his naval power, though clearly outmatched, was a last-ditch effort to lift the blockade, or (and I do...

Roosevelt is almost always Monty's punching bag on E18. Roosevelt is just being honest. He feels that you are too far away to offer any protection. Probably the best two options for getting around this are to attack either him or Monty. If you have a massive military advantage on Monty, just...

One very basic thing I noticed... since you said you didn't realize that jungle "hid treasures"... When you begin a game, hit Ctrl+R. This toggles the resource display, which pops up handy pictures of them wherever they appear. This should help you discern where to place your cities where...

Do what I want...

Haven't looked at the save yet (at work!!) BUT... If it is a colony, in order to have a trade route to your main empire, it should A) be coastal B) be connected by road to a coastal city C) have an airport (assuming the mainland has one as well :D) If not, I will have to look at the...

Yeah, popping BW from a hut in 3900 BC will do that to me... :D Seriously though, I could use some advice on the approach I should take from 1050 AD. This is usually the point in my games where I either get bored and lose focus or make a serious misstep and get my butt kicked. (Or both at...

Okay, the aforementioned update to AD 1050. Noble/Epic (And spoilered... :blush:)

Sorry... Got a little excited on that one... Won't happen again.

Gotta love goody huts. This isn't even fair.

It looks like you are alone on a continent/island with the Chinese. Expand towards the chinese. Always toward them. Unless you spot a strategic resource you want to your south. Make sure you have solid culture all the way across the island. The reason? Once all the land is settled, China...

I also play just about as well as the French sometimes. But most of the stereotype comes from the fact that their military just has not done well since Napoleon DoWed Russia. The Foreign Legion is still a good fighting force, it's just that after WWI, WWII, Vietnam (1950's), nobody has any...

You really should have grabbed the copper. Even when rexing, grabbing strategic resources really is a must, especially when it opens up a new unit type or two for you. The other thing I would have done differently would be to set the northern blocking cities south of where they are. Their...

All of the cities you have are well-rounded cities capable of pretty much anything you put them to. European cities on Earth 18 are monsters... so many resources. The biggest cause for concern I see is a lack of improved tiles. Build more workers. With 5 cities you need to have about 7-8...

This is difficult for most players. I can't do all three at once very well. Sacrificing one is usually the best route. But, once you've teched alphabet, you can trade for anything you don't have with the monopoly approach. Tech on a beeline and, once someone else discovers that tech, trade...

^^ Love the sig.