Recent content by HungryMouse

Barbs do appear from galleys, I once had a surprise landing of two axeman right next to one of my cities. lucky me, i had a proper defense in the city, 'cause I couldn't even imagine, that the approaching galley could contain troops in it!

I think Comrade is right. Stupid principle of consensus in EU's decision-making makes EVERY country equally important in the EU (remember the failure of the EU constitution due to the position of the Netherlands and France). I mean, in respect of blocking decisions on a particular matter Poland...

Question on the topic: how do you propose resolutions in Apostolic Palace? Or are they spawned automatically? The reason I am asking this is that I have these resolutions appearing VERY rarely, for the current game I have had only one (stop trading with Tokugawa).

The interesting thing is that my games ended in later years than before! Space race was won in some 1980-s, cultural earlier, perhaps 1930-s. The Dutch are strong, for sure, but I don't think that it would make such a difference. Some leaders from Vanilla and Warlords are even better suited...

I have played 3 games on BTS so far, and in all my games the game has said that I showed the leadership skills of Augustus Caesar (if I am right, he is on top of the list?). The highest score was something like 23,000. This is strange because I have never previously got so high in rankings. The...

Browsing the topics I came across the opinion, that size of your empire does not play as much for research as it did in CIV3. So the question is how many cities I might need to keep up in techs playing on large maps, continents? Any ideas? Usually I have around 15 cities by 1500 without overlap...

Isn't axeman a bigger threat to praets than swordsman? What about fortified axeman in the city with let's say 40% culture and axeman's 50% vs melee units? I think in that case you need more than 1 praet per axeman?

Don't you think it is really pointless to compare the way people had lived in ancient Rome and nowadays Somalia at least for the reason that you, I suppose, have not had personal experience living either in Rome or in Somalia? The standards of living are SO different that it is as weird to...

Well, if you refer to the peak of Poland's golden age in 16th century, then let's not forget that it was the union with Lithuania and this fact is very well known. At that time Lithuania was powerful and a big share of Poland's fame and success has to go to Lithuania as well.

This was rather an option for compromise decision between including and not including Poland.

But in your arguments you (not you in personal, but you in general) still tend to show that Poland is superior to many other countries: it produced more great people than some other countries included in the game, it occupied bigger territory than other countries, it NOW has GDP greater than...

That can be applied to any nation and any war. In every army there are tens and hundreds of nationalities. BTW tell me more about front in Siberia... The only I can think of is the war with Japan in the mid-1945, but that did not take place in Siberia, but in Manchzhuria and China. On the...

The answer is obvious - make sure to have enough money or to have thriving economy before you unbury the hatchet. Or lower your research rate. This is quite realistic that you have to adjust your science spending when you go in war because your priority is switched to military and your resources...

I really don't think that the AI attacked you to prevent your assault. From what you wrote it seems obvious that he had not less troops than you and possibly even more if you got smashed so easily. And in order to have that many troops he had to start producing units probably at the same time as...

Excuse me, but wasn't you asked for language preferences during the installation? Can't remember myself but I am pretty sure that you have several languages to choose from when you install the game... If you say you have a licensed version of CIV I would be very surprised to know that you have...