Recent content by Hauptman

Just a wee story to share. Playing a HUGE earth map game as the all mighty HRE (Germany) and John Curtin, made himself a nice little (okay, HUGE) empire that was basically all of Asia. Asia on a huge earth is massive. He scared me. The entire game I was actually looking forward to a show down...

Happens all the time. I swear I thought, you know how each civ has a start 'feature' like how Mvemba starts in rainforest... well I thought for the longest time that Montezuma's 'feature' was to spawn on somebody like this. But after enough restarts I realized it's just "normal". This is so...

Answered your own question didnt you? You never build them, hence they are not good enough to build, mainly because the long splits between upgrades making one of the classes almost useless for a long period. Alternating between which is the "good" one, while the other is utterly useless. I...

Nobody cares about "a lot of people". They can go play something else. The type of person who plays Civ does want to spend 8+ hours on a game, and would love to get beat on occasion. The plebs can stick with simcity.

"Removable districts" is a must. Because AI placement is bad. Also, Vicky likes to put art museums in her cities, and that's a no-no. "Extended Eras- Historical speed" is turning out to be a lot of fun. I like "CQUI", dunno what people couldnt like about it? It's great IMHO. And dont judge...

I dont mind the spam so much... keeps me more honest. Plus it gives my navy something to do. Level 5 frigates are no joke!~ Once I got them upgraded to Battleships, I was able to hit the Fjord again and get level 6. Just one more to go. This would seriously make Monty even more OP though. Every...

This screenie was taken as I was beating up Lizzy (Vicky, whatever) to steal some of her cities so I can build her Museums... It really upsets me that she doesnt even know how to play her own civ... of the 3 cities I took from her, 2 had art museums. WTH lady? Are you dumb? Glad I installed the...

Pretty easy when you have 2 civs start in a tight spot. Pretty much all of these came from the same area, which was Nubia and India's start. So I had 3 choices when it came to selecting artifacts. Ghandi, Nubian guy, or barbarians... So mix and match those 3, getting a barbarian spear with a...

I think I've taken my OCD to new levels.... This is how you theme! To be fair... I have two that arent themed this way.... yet. Let me get my new English museums online and they'll fix that right up.

Wut? Immortal if I want a conquest game... emperor for peaceful builder (due to size of my empire not keeping up on tech) marathon, HUGE! Pretty sure diety wouldnt be an issue now as I know what I'm doing finally. And yes, my last victory I put off until I had the 2500 score... and didnt even...

Civ 4 did it pretty simply. For every civ that researched a tech, that tech got cheaper. So like when I beelined something ignoring some of the basics, when I backfilled the techs would be at the 4 turn minimum cost. You still had the backwards nations, but if they didnt get ate, they'd...

So I've been playing a bit over a month now. I was highly preturbed by how rapid research is even at marathon speeds, when compared to build speeds. Especially with how advanced flight said "build 3 biplanes" at me every single game. Wait you want me to spend 20 turns building an airport, then...

The way it stands, if you play to maximize and win, you build 2 types of units. Slingers and warriors. Then upgrade them as you progress... never making new units. That makes every other unit worthless, and just a side bit of flavor, but ultimately nothing but a drain on your goal if you...

Best? That's a dumb question as everything is good in it's own way. But... here's my list. Most fun; Legion. If I'm in a bitter mood and just need to be aggressive to some poor AI civs to make myself feel better... I'll load up Trajan, beeline the legions (no other techs needed) and go ham...

514. You realize the "Baby boom" was a product of 'chopping' all the cattle (buffalo) tiles into burgers. 515. You tell the neighbors kid, "Food is where babies come from".