Recent content by Hodory

Are you referring to my post? I am not limiting myself to a strategy that will probably work at a decent chance at lower levels, such as founding an early religion or two. I don't care what level I play, I am not concerned about beating Deity and not being able to sleep at night because I...

I am fully aware of how unrestricted leader works. I don't play unrestricted leaders personally, but I know how the mechanics work. It could be fun I suppose. Boudica of Rome with her traits plus praetorians seems to be pretty popular. Many interesting options. I am pretty much at loss...

The English do NOT start with Mysticism, so Liz might not work out. Now I see a problem here. First, nobody in the mindset to play a regular game of Civ 4 would even think about settling on top of the gems. Also, you really need a lucky start like you had where you had gems, gold, and...

Please do not misunderstand me for accusing you of cheating or anything like that. It doesn't really matter that World Builder is locked or unlocked, but I only implied that having it locked ensured that there was no possibility of alterations, which make analysis of any saves much more...

On Emperor and above, the probability is even less. And when you say Monotheism is cheaper, I am assuming you mean Meditation. Monotheism requires BOTH Polytheism and Masonry, which also requires Mining. On standard map settings on normal speed, it usually takes up about 13 turns or so to...

I don't know what you mean by minimal investment. Forgoing the early worker techs at the very beginning in order to pursue religion techs set you back many turns by not allowing you to improve the land around your capital city at the early going at maximum efficiency, and that sets your economy...

Lately I've realized the potency of the cannons against medieval units. They indeed are brutally effective. And you are right... getting free GP from getting a tech first is a huge boost. I brought up the Citadel question because I don't see a lot of players, if there is even any, that even...

Louis was pathetic in techs for the whole game, and there was a good reason for it. He was going straight for culture. When I took over his top 3 cities, they were all around 45k in culture. That was around 1880. He didn't even have Replaceable Parts, and was running around with knights and...

I managed a space victory in 1936. I was turtling quite a bit until I realized that Louis was going for cheap culture victory. I literally just razed 3 of his top cities to the ground and made peace with him afterwards. Shaka never really did anything the entire game, other than attacking and...

:) Call me greedy!

Since you are playing Izzy, I wanted to ask: Have you thought about building some citadels for extra experience to your siege units? Now the description says that the effects other than the defense bonuses expire with Economics. So if it is like the monasteries where you lose that +10%...

This kind of situation is when I really wished I was creative. The suggested dop map locations seem ideal for long term, but I do admit that some of the resources require a border pop to work them as they are. I was thinking about using the copper/wine/pig site to block Qin from going that...

You know what? I caught that in your video as I watched it last night actually. I would probably watch your videos again from the beginning though because there were some things that you did that caught my eyes. I don't want to delve into them right now, but you certainly did make your point...

Oh yes, that I know. :) It was for the humor factor really. Hence why I made the statement that it might be fun to do a Roleplay game as the alternate Hannibal, aka Hannibal Lector and not the real Hannibal. Something tells me I should be more aggressive in my approach. :) I tend to want...

The more I play, the more I am liking Caste System. Before Guilds and Chemistry, workshops only net out +2 :hammers: and -1 :food: but they still seem pretty useful. I know that most players probably don't go after Guilds --> Banking that leads to Replaceable Parts before Liberalism, and even...