Recent content by GreatWhiteHope

This is the most squeaky clean "addictions" thread I have ever seen boys. Allow me to get the ball rolling. All through college, I was a chronic pothead. I'm talking like 3 grams a day, all day bong hits. When I would try to cut down, I would succeed in abstaining all day, but then end up...

OP, put down 50 Shades of Gray and put away your weiner, you freak. Nobody here is going to swap wives with you. It's not that kind of forum. Find another outlet for your repressed sexual urges. (PM me)

Tom Clancy put out a more plausible, possibly prescient book about cyberwarfare with China called "Threat Vector", right before he died mysteriously on the very same day the US government shut down in 2013. I think in that same book he also predicted the Ukraine crisis. Who knows what else he...

Appreciate you taking the time too look over my saves. Yeah I just noticed that my capital was, for some stupid reason, smaller than several of my other cities. I should've grown my capital and whipped my other cities smaller. I just recently found out about old forum games like Kossin's Daily...

Congrats on the win man. I've always wanted to try out a water map with the Dutch. I normally play pangaea, but I imagine it would be much harder to win on archipelago.

Wow, nj on the 950 ad cavs! It looks like I may have to give this map another whirl and try the great lighthouse route too. Not sure how beneficial settling those scientists were now. Not sure if I can beat that finish date though but I'm probably gonna give it a try! @Grashopa - I think you...

Deity/normal -> 1830 ad Diplomatic Third time's the charm. This time, a barb city spawned at that very site, and Gilgamesh captured it one turn before I was able to get there with my dog soldiers. A few turns after that, he declared on Charlamagne instead of me :thumbsup:! I guess not...

I played until 1040 BC and lost the game on an early DOW. Sad. I'll keep trying until I win. I just don't know how to avoid these early DOWs.

Thanks for the replies guys. @Sossos & Sinimusta: Yeah I don't advocate obscene reloading either. I think it's a bad habit. I used to reload mostly to experiment with risky plays, which I believe is okay as long as you're gleaning knowledge about the probability of outcomes. @KidR: Well the...

The extensive rexing must have been due to map setting's landmass size. With much more land than a regular pangea, my only option was to grab as much land as possible, building 9 cities total just to keep up with the AIs. DeGaulle had 17 cities. I ended up getting liberalism at 800 AD. But I...

Ok by 1420 I capitulated 3 opponents, but there is no way I can finish in the 1400s, or even the 1500s. I must be doing something wrong because I noticed a massive difference in the total number of units built. One of the forum members finished at 1490 and built over 220 (!!) cuirs and cavs. By...

Damn I actually just lost that game. I lib'd military tradition and attacked at 1000 ad, just like the other players did. And lo and behold, by the 1200s, before I was even able to get a jump on my 2nd target, I had been BEATEN to rifling by everybody despite being the first to cuirs by several...

Unfortunately, playing on deity/huge/marathon/17 civs using an early rushing unique unit is at least half a level or even a whole level easier than playing on standard/normal/6 civ settings using an average leader. Using easier settings opens up oneself to ad hominems. Otherwise, huge/marathon...

Right, my bad. I guess that's what I meant. The War Chariot is definitely stronger nearly all of the time.

Thanks guys. @elmurcis: Wow, what kind of setting are you playing on where the AI can get that many cities? Imagine how many units they'd spam out! You'd have to nuke them. If you're behind in tech mid-late game, and not really in a position to expand, you should switch to a pure espionage...