Recent content by Gwil

You can! Its under some advanced options somewhere (dig around!) but you can have Baba Yetu AND the Day/Night transition backdrop even on BtS! Fantastic. I love this song, so good to have it back after Warlords/BtS. I like those themes too, but Baba Yetu is epic!

If the game is as bad as you would like to portray it as, why on earth have you invested time and effort into being part of "the top 30". :D

I disagree heartily with people who think that Cyrus is a pushover. Whenever I have encountered him, his play has been shrewd enough to both utilise military technology to both execute and counter attacks - in a recent game I had against him he managed to field upward of 40 cuirassiers against...

Im probably wrong, but i thought it happened like this You can airlift from one airport to ANY of your cities, but that city can only recieve one unit per turn. Its either that or the airlift city can only airlift once per turn - possibly both. I dont use it a great deal unless im reinforcing...

Sarajevo is a good way in land, too. I'd go with Ljubljana or Trieste.

Depends on what strategy you're rolling out - it's worthwhile keeping mini-stacks in the most important vulnerable cities (eg coastal research/production centres) in case of a surprise enemy fleet/stack landing or trooping right through. I always maintain a "rapid reaction" force in domestic...

Ooh I want. Entered to win!

That's not necessarily true. Go look at how many people happily described themselves "Yugoslav" (and still do) even when the country was thrown into civil war. I'm not denying there was animosity in the 80s and even in Tito's times, but the Yugoslav "identity" is/was stronger than you may think...

I'd like to see Saladin grab the AP and perhaps demonstrate its uses beyond just getting the diplomatic victory. If you're head of a powerful bloc (hopefully Islamic if you keep "choose religion" on), it'd be interesting to see how you can sting the other blocs or isolated states by being the...

Might sound a bit odd but surely if you're taking Stalin to the cleaners, theres nothing to stop you (unless economy has ground to 0% with deficit) to continue the steam roller effect onto your next neighbour. I often find that if I was pushed into war by somebody, bounce back and take them out...

Cultural Victories: The key is to try and amass religions or wonders which help the culture output - Sistine (I think?) for instance gives +culture for each specialist. It's a victory you have to decide early on you wish to pursue, and plan your teching accordingly. You want to have...

(happiness) Yes, you are gaining something assuming that: A) The resource you are giving to them is SURPLUS. If you are trading wine, and you have only one source of it, you are losing that wine and therefore the + :) If however, you are trading the wine and you have 1 source for...

I recently finished a nice Dom as Monty where I opted early to settle across the pond - it turned out I wasn't isolated as I had thought, but the quick decision to expand on 2 landmasses proved to be instrumental in victory against Germany later on (Prince). I'd settle north somewhere then make...

Any news esnaz? Im champing at the bit for the completed BtS version. Many cookies to be mailed to you when completed!!

I've managed to locate full tracks of the Civ IV music for some of the classical era- but, i'm stuck if I can nail the Beethoven track listed in Renaissance as: "BeethovenAllegretto" - is it just a Beethoven inspired piece (I think it sounds very genuine) or an actual work of his? ANy...