Recent content by Hammurbabble

that I can't find the answer for, using searches or just looking in my game itself. CiV has downloadable civilizations like Spain and the Incas. I have NO CLUE how to access this material! Where is it found? What's the procedure? It ought to be obvious and it probably is, but I still don't...

It's interesting that nobody seems to be talking about bombardment units, except for the reference to the Chu-ko-nu thread. Bombardment units are, IMO, the key to sieges. My attack force always includes a couple of catapults, trebuchet, cannon, etc. take a couple of turns to bombard a city and...

Here's a few tips I've picked up in my own learning. I'm still on Prince, too. 1) Specialize your cities for either gold or production, not both. (Research in CiV is separate from gold, unlike any previous Civ game, and based mostly on population, so you want plenty of food coming in to every...

I have, with 4 cities. I wouldn't have even considered going beyond that. I know most people think that's excessive for a culture win. I did win, though. I didn't do a whole lot with CS culture gifts although I took Patronage as one of my trees, and that was surely a mistake. The only time I...

Thanks for the link. With respect to number of cities, here is the important part of the formula: (7 + 3 n)/10 rounded to the next multiple of 5, where n is the number of cities. This is a multiplier applied to the base cost of the policy. However, this can't be right. It implies that the...

WHY is one city best? There's a trade-off here purely in connection with culture, leaving everything else out of consideration. Simply put, one city = one temple/opera house/etc., two cities = two of each. And so on. Does anyone have a link to some hard info as to exactly how much the...

I don't consider those the key effects of Honor; in fact, those are the ones I don't bother with. GGs are very easy to get, so the only thing that SP does is give you one for the first war you fight. Well, the first battle or two of the first war, really, because you'll have one before the war...

I've only done a cultural victory once and it was on Prince (I haven't been playing that long). I played as India, built 4 cities, had a completely peaceful game the whole time through, and did essentially what people are suggesting. India is a really great choice for a culture win because of...

I do not find this to be true. I find that when the AI declares war on me, one of the following things has happened: 1) They are an aggressive neighbor and I have a very weak military compared to them. 2) I have made myself thoroughly obnoxious in one of several predictable ways, the most...

If they have TEN votes they win the game. (If you have 10 votes, you win the game.) Having the most votes doesn't do it if it's less than 10. EDIT: That's on a large map. On different sized maps it's probably a different number. SECOND EDIT: In the upper right-hand corner, one of the things...

This is actually the first thing anyone has mentioned so far about ANY feature of Civ4 being better than Civ5 that made any sense to me at all. Yeah, map trading was cool and I do miss that. But everything else? You know, the same ing and moaning happened when Civ4 came out from Civ3 players...

About the benefits of annexation for happiness, I can testify to that from a recent experiment which you can easily repeat, and it's NOT just that the AI doesn't build happy buildings. Try this: 1) When you capture a city, make it a puppet. 2) After the clenched fist goes away, open the city...

Dale, I'm running into a problem with the WOI while playing AOD2, and I'm not sure of the problem lies in the mod or in the underlying C4C 1.01, but it's annoying as hell. Actually two problems, but one of them only makes the WOI too easy -- or it would, except for the other problem, which...

And both at once is better still. It's a fact that you ARE going to be defending part of the time, and it's another that you don't have to choose between the two as if you could only do one. And THAT would be a point if your UU (whatever it is) were the only unit you have. Come on. You're...

Some of this will conflict with what's below. How seriously do you want to stay ahead in the tech race, as opposed to holding your own? A lot depends on what leader you're playing, as well as on the map. Although at Prince, really you have some flexibility. There are two ways to approach...