Recent content by Forbiddentwo

Vassal system please! Just like in Alpha Centauri.

God I miss being able to chop outside of my city's borders. Back then a game as the Aztecs was like coordinating a Tyranid invasion, converting their units into workers and then using their workers to strip the area between my empire and theirs.

On a related note, what do you guys do when the only option the AI has left available to you in terms of expansion is to make your empire basically a line across the continent? Usually what happens in those games is I get ripples of DoWs, or the occasional double DoW, and it's a huge pain in...

Actually is there a list of which civs have what start biases, and how strong they are?

If an enemy starts approaching a religious victory all you need to do is either wipe them out or start killing their apostles wherever you can.

Playing as Rome on Deity, I snagged a settler from Germany and another from Japan, and while things looked really dangerous for a while there, for some reason neither actually saw fit to attack my cities with their swarms of chariots and warriors. To be fair, Germany was on the other side of a...

Hmm, do projects provide enough GPP to be worth it? *edit* Also, that build order got me invaded by Norway, then France (the latter of which only just showed up as my capital fell). The AI on Deity is quick to smell blood.

First off, how do I maximize the odds of getting a religion while minimizing the degree to which I've screwed myself if I fail at doing so, short of playing Saladin and accepting whatever mishmash of religions are left over? The things that come to mind are playing as Japan or Russia, but I've...

In my last game I had managed to screw myself going for a religion early on Deity (yeah, yeah, I know) but I managed to rally and make horses... only to find that my nearest Neighbor, Gorgo, had chosen Defender of the Faith and thus was able to whup my horses despite only having warriors...

For what it's worth, I've switched to scout, slinger, worker , slinger x6 (deity difficulty) and haven't had problems yet. There's still some risk from stuff like an early double rush (damn it Gilgamesh) or getting unluckkwith barbs plus an early war dec, but it's not that bad.

Do siege towers work with cavalry? A friend of mine claims that she tried it in a game we were in and it didn't. Just checking.

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It would absolutely make my day if they fixed the sea dog and announced that the eagle warrior not being able to capture barbarians is a big.

I gave fighters and bombers a try yesterday and fell in love with them. I ended up building multiple aerodomes and having several cities make 1 fighter each. A swarm of fighters can do plenty of damage, even to cities, but you really need bombers + military engineers if you want to strike deep...

And then there are those garment-rendingly frustrating times when I start up a game after a nice casual theorycrafting session, all set to exploit said floodplains only to get spawned next to a plain old river over and over :(.