Recent content by jasenn

Since they are religous and scientific, all the culture producing city improvements (temples, libraries, etc) are half price. Very handy ability.

It really does depend on difficulty level I think. I used to get lots of cultural conversions. At harder difficulty levels I rarely see one, even when I move my capital to be adjacent to the border.

I get a kick out of nuking the world right after I win a diplomatic victory.

isolated situation? I play a peaceful strategy on diety and I cannot fathom winning when starting isolated. By the time I was upgrading to pikemen the rest of the world would be looking at riflemen. If I don't start where I can get contact from at least 2, preferably 3 civs, I restart.

I played as Spain, and the first thing I did (other than start a settlement with my starting settler) is kick portugal off my peninsula. Getting a free settler every 5 turns from the old capital of portugal made it all worth it. :)

I ahve played a couple diety games that I won. In one of them noone declared war on me. In the other, I paid the rest of the world to ally with me against the agressor. It was a pangea, so everyone had access. The aggressor was promptly crushed.

I am playing a large map, continents with lots of water, dry, temperate, 5 billion years, Monarchy, Mayans, raging barbarians. As background on myself, I have won all the way through Diety. ( pangea, exploration trait, world science re-seller strategy) For this game I wanted to do an...

I have not played this scenario yet. Working on the Japaneese scenario. However, considering the results of the real attack USS Arizona, USS West Virginia, USS California - sunk USS Utah (had been converted to a training ship) - capsized USS Oklahoma - rolled completely over, extensive...