Recent content by Harvie

What's the consensus about extending the closing date while we wait for the patch (or not)? I've just got back from vacation and haven't started yet. If you want to keep the 18th as the closing date and press on with TSG 11 pre-patch then that's cool but it would be good to know whether I have...

This game was fun. I concentrated on building population as fast as I could. I took the landed elite policy asap, spammed farms and allied with maritime CS. I build three cities and then went to war with Rome and Persepolis to get their capitols. I left it there for most of the game since I...

Some more thoughts on the difficulty level issue. Is the problem that the better players finish too early and never get to play with the later units/buildings etc? This could be fixed with having a new scoring system where you play to a certain time eg 2050AD, 2000AD whatever and then get points...

+1 for continuing these organised games. These are my favourite ciV games and I really like comparing strategies and results. I think the difficulty level so far is about right. It allows most people with some practise to get a victory before 2050 AD while the better players win earlier. I...

Another very good game. Conquest was going very well at first. Germany fell easily, following by arabia, turkey, china, greece. Hiawatha was a little tricky because his capitol was well positioned for defense. By the time I got rid of him, Siam had got artillery too and I had lost my tech...

Quite a tense end game with this one. I started badly but not expanding accross the starting island quickly enough as i couldn't decide to go for a cultural win, conquest or diplo victory. Glad I went diplo but it would have helped if I had more cities. I also wasted time at the start using...

Really enjoyable game. It was nice having the auto-healing ability and free culture when you kill an enemy. I don't think the free culture contributed much overall though. I played this game pretty well and I got all the main cultural wonders (Henge, Oracle, Sistine and Cristo). I made one...

Nice game. Fairly straightforward take over the continent and tech away whilst protecting those city states. I obviously could have optimised better though looking at some of the better scores!

Very easy with China. Not sure if they are the best choice but it is too easy to dominate your neighbours with their generals, especially on this map. The diplo victory is really just an alternative science victory. I had enough votes from very early on so it was a race to globalisation. Fun...

Fun game and my first on epic speed. Not done ICS on archipelago map before either. Very little interference from the AIs. I just spread out to all the nearby islands with settlers first before puppeting most of Japan, Mongolia and the Irquois using frigates/destroyers and...

Hi Enjoyed the game though Siam nearly ran away with it on the other continent. I declared war on him on about turn 200 when he was clearly leading expecting an attack accross the central river but nothing ever came! I think because he was at war with me he left Japan and China alone so it...