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    BOTM 89 Final Spoiler -Game over or abandoned

    I went for the stone/marble site, it was too tempting to miss such an opportunity to spam wonders. I ended the game with 12 of them in my capital, it got its culture mostly just from wonders and only one cathedral. After getting an idea of the neighbors, I chose to settle city number 2 on the...
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    BOTM 88 (Hammurabi) Final Spoiler - Game finished

    Deity is far above my level, so I played the adventurer save. I could have possibly won a sushi-based cultural victory if I had defended myself a little better. In the end the damn celt landed a huge stack near my capital and I retired. On a second attempt I finished in 1858. I still got...
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    Immortal University XXXIX: Mansa Musa

    This thread doesn't look active, but I'll post anyway. I just got my first win on Immortal! Until now my best achievement was Monarch, so it was quite a jump :) 1886 AD Cultural win. Here's a brief summary:
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    The Core of the Rhye - Concept

    I love the city merge idea even if it doesn't speed up the game! That said, I am looking forward to any improvement since I don't have the patience to play post-1700 on my apparently old laptop. Still, I have plenty to be occupied with :)
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    [RFC] Someone explain plot assignment.

    I am not sure if this is specific to the mod or a feature of BtS in general, but I have noticed it in RFC where cities are commonly very close. I often have the majority of the culture on a plot (often well above 50%, going into 70 or more) and still some other neighboring civ owns it. How does...
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    BOTM 01 First Spoiler

    Defeated Churchill by 245BC with Horse Archers. He had 3 cities at the time, I also had 3 of my own. So it's a pretty good start. This was the easy part, though. Unfortunately I did not set my priorities right and got distracted in the research path, delayed CoL too much. As a result my tech...
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    RFC: Easiest Historical Victory?

    Babylon and Egypt were pretty easy on Viceroy. Just get Music for the free GA and you have 5K culture.
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    Very early barbarian attacks need to be patched

    I lost the game to barb archers popping before 2000BC two times in a row. On the first day I installed BtS! Almost made me give up the game. But it makes it fun I must admit. One of the next times a group of spearmen came, but I was able to build enough archers to scare them and they just passed...
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    GOTM 25 Final Spoiler

    I am playing this GOTM after a long break from Civ. I decided to get BtS for Christmas, so I am getting back to it just in time. Anyway, I just wanted to post this as an encouragement for the other beginners like me. I won on Emperor for the first time! It was a long struggle, but I made it to a...
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    InstallShield issues

    I haven't played CivIV in a long time and was thinking of getting BtS for Christmas, so I decided to install vanilla to get some practice. But for some reason it won't, even though I never had this problem before. I realized it must be the installer itself, because it simply doesn't start. All I...
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    GOTM 05 First Spoiler

    Conquest victory: 60AD. ~80k This was my first full game on Warlord (this statement sounds strange after the previous ones), I played on Noble before GOTMs, now Prince. My game was very far from perfect, since I didn't have much real time for it. I got one settler from a hut, which might seem...
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    Differences in Final Score

    So did I. And I didn't notice any difference in the previous games I submitted, when I wasn't using it. That must be it. At least curiosity is satisfied.
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    Differences in Final Score

    Not that I really care, but just to note that I had a similar situation. Played contender, but my score was reduced by probably ~20% compared to what the game gave me.
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    GOTM-05 Pre-Game Discussion

    Warlord sounds too easy, but a bad location on great plains can compensate somewhat. Also Catherine might not be able to use her superpowers so much. Still, even if it is easy to win, it's not easy to win faster than others. Thanks to the variety of settings this GOTM will be interesting, as always.
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    GOTM 04 - First Spoiler (starting continent)

    I need a break from CIV, I started GOTM4 a couple of hours ago, but made a couple of stupid tactical mistakes such as razing Athens and declaring war on England later, so I retired in frustration. And it could have been a really interesting game. I think I was doing decently otherwise. Turn 7...
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