Recent content by grntmb

I would have to say that the randomness at which it happens totally seems unparalled to other features of the game to the real world. I agree it would be great if you knew how much iron or oil was there and how much it took to build the units. For the longest time I always thought that would...

Thank you for the link. Those are some great ideas in the article. I was kind of hoping to expand on it and see what people's individual strategies might be and get a little tete a tete going and have fun discussing certain things that have and haven't worked. After all maximizing the score...

I know not all people enjoy the finer points of milking, but I thought it would be great to start a thread of people's favorite milking strategies. Here's to a great thread! :)

I usually play the huge map and I've never been able to create railroads on all city sqares and also make connections to every city in 20 turns.

let me correct part of that post: "but it seems as if iron is a lot more plentiful than coal is"

true you need both, but it seems as if iron is a lot more plentiful than iron is...compare how often you have to trade for iron and how often you have to trade for coal! :) you can get some great trades if you have all the coal! :)

I've found that that not only iron is important, but when it comes time to build railroads you're sunk without coal...more times than I care to mention have I come up short on coal and have had to bargain heavily with another civ to get it. Nothing beats the no movement points of a railroad to...

I have to agree with woody on this one. workers are so cheap that you could get enough of them to clear a jungle in no time especially after they've doubled their work rate later in the game.