Recent content by Handsome_Champ

Thank you, I think pillaging might really help. They'll even send a worker out while I'm still at war with them and in view of their borders? Or is two tiles (ie one between me and their border) outside of their visibility?

You can sell it for like 8 gpt I think. At least 6.

Hills, next to fresh water or not are excellent tiles with Petra. If you're Inca and next to mountains, you get the civil service bonus for your terrace farms, too. I recently had my second city with six desert hills (and other desert was flood plains) and nabbed Petra with a GE that popped...

It sounds like I will benefit from stealing more workers. Any tips? I guess just try to nab him when he has a clear path or the enemy warrior will be slowed by terrain? I assume you're not actually fighting the AI, just taking the worker and running? I've only tried stealing from civ a few...

It probably helps that i use Shoshone or build the monument or adopt liberty early to expand my borders. The resources get in my borders quickly and I want to improve them.

I haven't missed the pyramids except in on game as Maya where iirc I built their UB and a monument prior. If I make my second build the pyramid, I always get them (often I'll put in a few turns into something else and switch to pyramid once I get masonry, usually only a turn or two into that...

That's not what I'm trying to do, it's just a nice bonus. The workers and increased speed of them are the primary goal. I've only later been building the pyramids, but I have liked them and now am getting used to the build order. I should just cut it out, it seems. Thanks!

I'm not comfortable at all stealing them from AI, hence the question in OP ;) I usually end up lose my unit, at best I can steal one and flee in the hopes they don't follow me and attack my capital. Still, building a worker first (or getting it quick from monument and tradition, perhaps with...

I guess I think the gold from city States is too small to justify building a scout in so early. I'm either just flatly wrong because I rarely try it, or because I usually play small or if standard, continents rather than pangea. I can probably accomplish more quests than I think I can. I'll...

I'd be delaying or risk not getting the pyramids by building a scout, or forgoing the worker or monument I build prior to starting pyramids. The monument is really nice if going liberty. If built before the pyramids, it adds up to a lot of culture, either netting you an early free worker or...

Yeah, they cost almost double a normal scout. I also often play Inca which have fast movement and kind of negates the point of a scout. Even when I build a scout, I rarely meet more than one or two extra city States first, and a few more not-first. I'm not sure that's really worth building...

Shoshone are more consistent, since you can pick ruins and plan around the first two at least. I always go for culture and then the unit upgrade to comp bowman for early defense and barb-killing missions. After that faith if possible, else pop, tech if I find another. (Tech seems overrated--it's...

Follow up; am I crazy for going worker or monument and then immediately Pyramids then settlers? I do monument if liberty to get the free worker faster, and build the worker if going tradition, only opening liberty for the pyramids. Having three speedy workers that early seems really helpful to...

These two suggestions have raised some questions. I've won a few Immortal games and have been trying to win Deity and failing so far, but getting much better. Scouting: why is this so important? Maybe it's just that I play civs that mitigate the need for it so I don't see it . I usually...