Recent content by HerrDoktor

Also, this one: X9PoUBewOAg I really don't understand the decision for that soporific Latin chanting in an expansion revolving around the industrial world.

Can you post the map save?

Biology or Scientific Method would make more sense, but would put the tech too far behind. Maybe Astronomy, you should fetch those beautiful lions someway.

Well, I won Deity once, just for the achievement. I picked Huns... against Venice... on Duel. Guess what victory condition? :groucho:

I actually try to expand so to encompass all sources of the same resource. A monopoly means you can sell it to all the other civs. Also, it works great if you have a Pantheon selected for that resource. Gold, in particular, also means money producing tiles.

You can save the map, but there's no guarantee you'll start at the same position (even if you pick the same civ). The only way to place you at the right spot is using a mod name ingame map editor, so you delete your initial settler and place another at the right place.

It's a simple question whether I'm rushing for Radio or researching military techs or waiting for another industrial GWAM. In sum, whatever comes first.

I'm probably repeating some other people here, but let me tell my own experience. I started with CIV 2, which I played like a chimpanzee, just hit every button to see what happens. So I had that dreaded old-school experience of fighting "armors" (tanks) with spearmen. I only started getting good...

That's actually a very nice idea for new wonders on an expansion or maybe Civ 6. They could produce a wonder tile that has to be worked and kept.

"Thicket" was what the original Sanskrit term "jangala" meant. The British then assumed that the whole of tropical forests would be that way, impassable, but actually they aren't. Thickets form nearby rivers, swamps or mangroves, but not in the middle of the jungle. I've been through some...

Jungles are just forests in tropical lands. The trees don't have rings because the seasons are less marked, but it doesn't make them less or more rigid. Tropical woods include some very prized hardwoods as teak, mahogany and ironwood. The problem for logging is that, while temperate forests are...

I know this is obvious to veterans, but just to clarify: the reason you can't try Great Library above Emperor is because AI starts with Pottery, so they have 10 or more turns in advance to build it. And it seems that every AI tries for Great Library. Some mentioned the "feeling" of being able...

Up to Emperor, you can snatch both and maybe even Hanging Gardens if you go Tradition and chop forests for Great Library. If you then pick Philosophy and build the National College ASAP, the time you'll take researching the Petra path will be greatly reduced, so you can generally compensate for...

Use cavalry to reveal a city to pound it with artillery, then move cavalry away to avoid being killed by the city. Forget to move cavalry at the start of the turn. Instead of attacking, artillery moves toward the city, gets killed. Accept a deal to provide a luxury for 5 coal, since the...

What's up with this necro? While I would agree this was the case on vanilla, the devs have heard the complains and the game has come a long way since then.