Recent content by hugo

The ability to build scouts was also reversed. Everything else remained the same - UU, preferred units/improvements, shunned/preferred government etc. It may have been luck of the draw in starting location, but it seemed to me that Germany and Russia *never* prospered before now. I'd never seen...

About 6 games. They usually start to become strong in the Middle Ages - not even enough time for them to start using their UUs. Up until this point they are competitive, but afterwards they start to pull away from the pack - unless the Americans got lucky early on. Obviously I can't draw any...

Something I've found: usually in my games Germany and Russia usually end up as backward civs that get eaten alive by the AI or myself. However, in the editor one day I switched Germany to Expansionist/Scientific and Russia to Militaristic/Scientific. Since then, in all my games involving them...