Recent content by Jedoc

I place a whole lot more emotional weight on wonders than I should, and generally end up building ones I don't honestly need on Emperor level. That being said, one of the best things I ever did was take this forum's advice back in Civ IV and play through a couple of games with no...

Sweet. I'm in.

It only counts the food surplus. In this shot, 12 food is going to feed the citizens working those tiles. It's the same reason this city wouldn't be getting +13 food per turn in its granary if it wasn't building the settler. Edit: beat'd.

@ bestje; They changed the fort mechanic in either Warlords or BtS. They no longer remove forests or jungles. City Garrison promotions also work inside forts, so a hilltop/forest/fort tile can be almost impossible to storm without massive losses. Especially since the defensive bonus can't be...

So I just lost yet another extremely promising game to Ragnar's stupid suicide attacks all throughout the classical era despite the fact that I put all my wonder hammers into military instead and you know that he's crippling himself for the rest of the game just for the chance to hamstring you...

I think Alex should play it straight for the time being and rely on his Phalanxes. After all, he does have something to prove, and too much cheating is just going to make his brother look better by comparison. If the Medieval Era rolls around and he still hasn't popped or captured the needed...

Hah! I love the idea of Alex spontaneously generating strategic metals on the sly. It definitely sounds like something a Greek god would do, especially one with Civ Alex's personality. Of course, if I'm remembering my fabricated mythology properly, Alex and Asoka's god were roomies freshman...

Ooh. Now that's an interesting idea. How about a Caravan unit? It's built with both food and hammers, like a Settler or Worker, and when you pop it in a city the food that went into its construction is added to that city's stores. That might be a fun mechanic for getting marginal cities...

I always thought that Frederick the Great could have used some lessons on the value of morale boosting and tactical initiative. "The soldier must be more afraid of his officers than of the dangers to which he is exposed," and "If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the...

I keep meaning to try this myself, but does anyone happen to know whether the FP or Versailles has any effect on intercontinental maintenance? That is, if I conquer a second continent and build one of these two wonders, will the new cities still be treated as overseas colony-bait?

Ah. Well, I have good news for you there, too. As of BtS, forts provide resources just like regular improvements. So if the resource is outside of your BFC, your workers assume you don't need the extra commerce, hammers, or food, and so they give you a defensive bulwark as well as an...

Actually, you can get rid of the "Cities wanting to be liberated" annoyance rather easily. Just go into the options menu and uncheck either Sid's Tips or Advisor Pop-Ups. It's been so long since I played with either that I don't remember which of the two this actually falls under. In any...

I think the lack of any real counterespionage is the real vexing thing for me. I mean, I had the perfect security setup in my last Greek game. There was a 1x4 strip of land connecting my territory with the rest of the continent. ALL of my cities were south of that chokepoint, and ALL of the...

I don't tend to go for early wars, so I try and have an archer in every city, with an axe and a spear in border cities. If my military pump has slots to spare, I'll add a chariot to border cities. That gives you a counter to every possible attacker in the Ancient era and boosts your power...

So I was playing Civ this morning before work. I'd had control of my home continent since the Renaissance, and I was minding my own business while gunning for a Cultural victory. I had three rings of Frigates around my continent giving me visibility over practically the entire ocean. However...