Recent content by Go Boks

I'd like to reiterate this. I just played my first Spain game and it was laughably easy to roll over the Moors. Starting army was all I needed and the Reconquista UHV looks ridiculously late. I should be waging a centuries long war with the Moors with success in the balance in the early...

Judging by immigration statistics, a lot of Chinese people would agree with you.

Haha, good link. A mod vandalized one of my posts earlier, in one part asking an asinine question along the lines of challenging my assertion that mainstream historians would disagree. You're not allowed to discuss moderator actions in public. If you have a problem with an action, then discuss...

Some people peg the Renaissance as starting as early as the 12th century, although I think they are being a little liberal with the term. The most common view is that the Renaissance started in Northern Italy in the 14th century, so either way, yes, before the start of the 16th century. Of...

Why not make DC historic and the immediately adjacent tiles foreign (i.e. ones that will be razed)? That way, the AI will found Jamestown, which will flip to DC.

Why is Virginia not a historical area for the English in the 15th century? Planning out my North American colonies, and Newfoundland to Maryland is historical, then Virginia and I guess the Carolinas are foreign, then Georgia is historical, then Florida is foreign (which makes sense)...

Fair enough, and that is usually a very important indicator of a cultures ability to accomplish such a feat. The Chinese certainly weren't military technologically backwards for long stretches of their history either. However, the Chinese had some very serious geographical boundaries and a...

Oh man, if you think that is interesting, read up on their history and/or watch more Mel Gibson movies.

Just confirming this for others. Conquered cities count, vassals don't. BTW, perhaps more detail on UHV minutae in the civilopedia entries for each civ? In the description area, where all the history is.

Care to explain your assertion that China could have conquered half the world and colonized America?

IIRC, I believe all Nidaros really gets you, resource wise on your fat cross, is a whale. Whales aren't great tile bonuses. You can grab everything else in Nidaros' fat cross with other, better placed cities imo.

I like this tbqh as it strongly encourages you to found a 'destined-to-be-low-pop' city up there to grab them. If I changed resources in the North, it might be just to remove any food so a city can't even work all the resource tiles, it just adds them to your other cities (sort of emulating a...

I have to say I agree with Leoreth, but the point about an Italian or Thai style implementation could also work. If the Vikings are still going strong, no Swedes. If not and or they have collapsed, they respawn as Swedes. However, I personally wouldn't make that a high priority, but that's...

Yes, it was entirely my fault that I did not correctly guess the level of your reading comprehension skills in advance and adjust my post to that level. I will concede things all day long. Thing is, my usage of the word in question was not incorrect. But hell, if it makes you feel any...

Have twin babies and have one of them kill me in a few decades.