Recent content by Holbek

This Machine Gun ate a lot of artillery-units though

I gave a new produced machine gun unit 3x first strike upgrades, and placed it in the city I knew Ghenghis would attack with all he had the second I declared war. Mostly I did it because it was well defended, so it was mainly for the fun of it. It turned out that single unit destroyed about 15...

Seems a waste of promotions, if you ask me.. I usually give my transports +1 movement.

A mix of all the above, I'd say. Some good points have already been made. What I do: Begin building new units (maces, etc.) with my production cities, and upgrading a few of my old ones. I upgrade those that have 10/11 XP. I do not upgrade those that have 9, or 15/16. I then attack with my...

Standard size map, prince and monarch. I've had some success with taking 2 major cities from the AI, then sueing for peace ASAP. Then continue with this untill the AI is wiped out. Usually gives me 3-5 techs from a 8-16 city AI. Sometimes its necessary to wipe out 1 of the border-tundra-cities...

Moving your tanks into enemy territory where your cities airdefence won't be able to help them, carriers come in handy sometimes..

Nope, I nuked first. :)

From WoW -> Civ4? You don't hear about that often! Why did you decide to play Civ4 all of the sudden? And, welcome :)

Hm.. I haven't read any threads about whether the AI uses nukes or not. I just know for a fact that I've only played singleplayer (4-5 MP games with friends, against AI) - and nukes have been used against me.. Pretty sure it was a monarch game. 2 civs were ahead of me in techs and military...

New cities of mine: worker(chop with old one)-> granary -> new worker starts improving city. Gives you the quickest growth, doesn't it? And early-game granary+whip = huge production.

Nukes have been used against me on monarch :( So, in general, I try to get nukes before everyone else - and if I'm going to use them, I make sure the CIV I use them against doesn't have them. They are very circumstantial like everything else in the game.

Spies. Steal plans, and find their 2 most productive cities. Nuke the two spots where you hurt the most units, and nuke the 2 best productive cities. Starting a war this way helps a lot. oh, and btw.. The UN+Nukes can still be used pretty effectively! Catherine Cottage Spam + Nuke + UN and you...

Try experimenting with archery - and your first archer unit ;)

Subs with visibility upgrade stationed in strategic spots. Jet fighters used for recon - This in particular gives you a huge advantage - as you usually can make a 2-turn bombingrun on any ships before they come close enough to land their troops.

I reloaded a lot in the beginning - but learned a lot from it. It happens very seldom now that I reload.. Sometimes I go back 10-15-20 turns and replay them - to see if I can avoid some sort of disaster. Then it usually happens I play those 10-15-20 turns 4 or 5 times.. I've learned A LOT...