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Thanks Browd. fs

Thanks Browd, that's very helpful. Does that apply to V and VI?

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so expensive. I just got my $1,700 specially made PC to play V and VI. Neither will start. I deliberately am not connected to the internet as I had a very bad experience with Steam some year ago. I bought the discs and the guy handled the installation...

Sorry, I cannot find the right forum for this question. Some of the posts I read on civfanatics are too wide for my screen. I don't have the patience to scroll left and right for every line. If I buy a bigger monitor would that solve the problem? My resolution is 1024-768 and the screen...

Has anyone studied how much of an edge in strength the player needs to successfully make demands on a weaker ai?

Thanks sercer. That sounds right. Thanks Domimatrix. I've been playing for years but never had the patience to plan to that extent before. I get the impression that the top players plot out several opening sequences to figure out the best one before they really get into the game.

I'm not sure where to post this question, but it relates to micromanaging. I have a hard time mm-ing, just get caught up in the game and want to go to the next turn. Also lack patience to compare plans for the vital opening moves. So today I started a random game and wrote out the first 21...

Great Article! But where can I read about the "cascade"? fs

By Norton: As for how to do it, I usually leave as many units as possible in the city on the turn I capture it to quell as much resistance as possible before the city has a chance to flip back to the enemy. If there's still resistance after that, I leave a single unit in the city so that...

I am playing Aztecs, Monarch level, c3c vanilla in a very interesting frustrating game. I was building the Thomas Edison wonder that gives two free advances. I had 11 turns to go but decided to use espionage to find out how the others were doing. Found the Irroquois were 8 turns from TE! I...

Life Lesson 467: Don't let 15 barb horsemen march one by one into a city. This does make them go away, and you don't lose the city. But I had to helplessly watch each one take about 35 gold. I went from 800 gold to 275 on one play. This was the vanilla version from c3c.

I am a new player and played this game for fun. I didn't submit it beause I restarted afer a few turns. If my post is out of line I hope the moderator will just delete it, but I wanted to ask some questions. On the restart I settled on the hill next to the volcano. Why did that plain hill city...

Thanks guys. I had seen something about rally points but didn't know what they were. I opened it with the PTW version which is included in civ3complete. I suppose that counts as vanilla? fs

I have been reading this thread as a lurker and have found it very interesting and instructive. It appears to be dying out. I downloaded the bc 1350 save today and played a few turns, mainly trying to learn how to mm Rome into a 4 turn Settler factory. A strange thing happened to the two...