Recent content by GalleySlave

Your critique is spot on: the AI can't play the game, the late game is dull, World Congress is terrible, I agree with everything you wrote. I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of the game (>1K hours), but it has some major shortcomings. I picked up Old World at the start of this month. I highly...

I prefer to put the GP in my #2 or #3 city, unless I'm going all-out domination. In a peaceful game I often build/chop a number of settlers in my Ancestral Hall/Magnus city, and I'd rather that city not be my capital, which will have Pingala. I also prefer not to have build any of the GP...

Wikipedia implies that the 2nd Edition of Avalon Hill's Gettysburg was the first to use a hex map (1961).

You say lorry, I say truck; it's all good. Sure, you can check each city's loyalty bar once you have the loyalty tab open in a city. If a city is at full loyalty, then a -2 isn't that a big deal, it'll take quite a while before the city is affected at all. See the wiki for more info on the...

Um, you just do the math. A governer provides +8 loyalty. If I were to remove Victor from Mumbai, it would be at -5.8 loyalty/turn instead of +2.2, and thus would rebel in 11 turns if everything else stayed the same.

The 'city details' screen has a Loyalty tab, which gives the specifics of a city's situation. When you click on that tab, there's also a small bar that appears under each city, which gives those details in summary for every city. Here's a screenshot:

All the Leader Packs from Rulers of China on are not yet available on Mac. See this post for details.

City centers must be 4 tiles apart, i.e. have 3 clear tiles between them. The outer boundaries of a city's territory don't affect this in any way. If the centers are on different landmasses with water between them, then the minimum distance becomes 3 tiles apart. See the wiki for more.

It was delicious. Mines for an appetizer, farms for a palate cleanser, then the main course of tasty districts.

Korea has objected to the presence of my troops. Some people are so nervous - after all, they're just out for a training exercise*. Promise! *(This week's exercise: how to throroughly plunder and capture a city in 2 turns.)

I thought the AI doesn't do any chopping - do they in fact chop?

Kilwa is usually excellent, but there are occasions when it's not that useful, e.g. you're going for a science victory but there's only 1 scientific city-state on the map. Similarly, the Colosseum is often great, but if your cities are spread out (on say an Archipelago map) you might not have a...

Pyramids, for sure. Forbidden City would be my 2nd choice.

Through whatever combination of circumstances, Bandar Brunei wasn't able to settle on the first 3 turns, and I captured them on turn 4. Free early settler + Zhangye Danxia start + first meets with Kabul....Simon, you lucky devil...

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