Recent content by John_Galt

Oregon Trail ;)

Combine organized with expansive and you get cheap courthouses, lighthouses, granaries and harbors. Great for large scale early expansion. Also it matches up with rome's early UU which everyone knows is quite powerful. Plus high health and the ability to support whatever civics you want without...

For me biology does add +1 food but only to existing farms. Any new farms I make don't get the bonus.

I don't know about everyone else here. But personally Civ is more of a fallback game to me anyway. I never play Civ to the exclusion of other games, and I have been playing since the original. If I played nothing but civ for 3 days would I get bored? Heck yes then I would go play CSS or BF2...

Are you all kidding? civ4 is the first bombard system that works! In C3C I never used bombard units. They were costly slow and defenseless. Stack Chinese riders or Cavalry and just widthraw when losing. 3 times as much mobility and you take cities much faster, plus they can defend themselves...