Recent content by glonnon

Excellent choice, I got my coffee out and read to the bottom and realized it was a quick game. Well it should have some interesting decision points but standard is still the preferred time span. Epic is really slow and quick has some distortions and lacks opportunity, forcing the player to...

turn 205 Missed the "God of the Sea" Pantheon so chose the bonus for wonders, I would have settled two more cities for sure with the extra hammers and a hope of getting a good score. I haven't played recently and didn't remember the need to build sea structures after the light house. So I got...

Lots of hammers, good chance to get a quick start and settle in place. Will rush out a worker and look for a good cargo route. The Kris swordsman will be next to worthless but three cities that can be built without a unique resource will allow some extra options. I really like the collosus...

Never won a Brazil game before, tried diety several time but never got a good start, in hindsight you don't need a good start. Screwed up with carnival and built the carnival wonder just as golden age ended, since it was my second golden age, couldn't use the golden age to generate tourism with...

Where be the Hammers? Looking at the map the inability to build anything quickly concerns me on a Diety map. No quick start on this one, anybody have a suggestion to increase the hammer flow early in the game.

The key to Barbs is ignore them unless they can hurt you. The next step is learning when the can hurt you. In this case they can hurt you do as little as possible to limit the harm. My big mistake was I didn't read the instructions and built a second scout before i realized NO RUINS. Both my...

sacred sites is religous way to get early tourism and finish the game before the AI can muster too much culture

I did buy my last two libraries with faith. With Honor opener it could be possible to buy a good number of LIBS with faith if you could get to reformation fast enough. Raging barbs could have got me there pretty fast. I could have had an army of chariots with no hammers going to LIBS and...

Opened honor and finished off piety tree early. Only got settler from left side of liberty. Got mad culture but in the end killing sooo many barbs wore me out and I made too many mistakes. finished with two extra scientists. But major blunder was getting NC too late. I got the SH early and...

On higher levels finishing liberty allows you to edge out the AI

Not much could stop me from opening honor. I can see some cases that I could open Honor/Liberty/Piety/Patronage very early. My only concern is losing the Academy from not finishing liberty my early science will suffer. No way to make this up on prince but the idea of getting seven or eight...

- Did you use your UU? Not real useful, Washington was my favorite in civ1-3 but this is the first time I played him in civ 5. He is very uninteresting. - Was your UB helpful? - Ooops, no UB. - Did you use spying to your advantage? Didn't get a single tech, CS coupes mainly. - Did the...

- What did you think about before starting the game, what was your approach to this game? Great start, emperor easy need to win quick, need worker, need Tirem and Optics, - Did you spend much time doing reconnaissance before settling? Luckily moved scout to a good viewpoint and saw lots an...

Went Liberty built third city on lake. Civ should treat lakes like lakes not oceans, built a Trieme in the lake that was useless. City was a big loss because no cargo ships internal. Got some crossbowman out and took washington. Sent second group south and took Sweden,Russia. A third group...

Finished 270-272 don't really remember played again but didn't do better my strategy was better but didn't micromanage as well as the first game. Did you use your UU? No - Was your UB helpful? I tried to keep my happiness up so I could sell the resources most of time I was able. Didn't...