Recent content by josh4bs

Justinian could no longer be tolerated. I amassed 10 Praets and marched upon his cities, by the way of razing his only source of metal (copper) so that he couldn't reload on his axemen. Victory was not difficult, to say the least. The continent is now mine. With resources Now time...

All right. I settled 2 new cities, in spot #1 and #2. Justinian took the area where I had marked #3, so that is okay. Here is the area as I see it now: Iron popped up in city #2, so that is terrific. As soon as I have that hooked up, the Praets will come out and Justinian will soon be...

Rome grew to size 3, began work on a settler...Settler will go E and settle "City #1." As soon as the settler is done a warrior will be out 1 turn later. Then I will build worker/settler Rome's worker will mine the pigs, farm the wheat, then chop worker/settler. With the only food...

I knew I was going to hear about the ambling warrior. My circle was way too big. Once I found Justinian, he should have went back closer to home. He is heading that way now and will hopefully not be too late scouring the land. I did not look into the cost of poly v. med, but now will be on...

Throough T20... This is what we know of the land we are on. Justinian is down there on the southern part of the land. He has a Warrior scouting around and one in his capital, which is at population 2 or 3. So he hasn't made a worker at this point. I think the right thing to do is let...

I was just looking at the map and thought..."Why should I research AH? I can mine the pig hill for the bonus of the Imp leader and if I need the food, farm the Wheat which I am going to do anyways. I need to research BW instead of AH." I almost feel like I "know" how to play the game...

T4 marks the discovery of our first neighbor Thank you for not being Shaka, Ragnar, Monty, etc.

I settled....and lo and behold... WHEAT will be in the BFC! This is by far my fattest cross in a long while. So I am playing a leader who gets a plus on hammers when building settlers and I am given a bountiful food BFC!?! Nice Civ IV, very nice.

Very good point about the river! I may indeed skip TW until I absolutely need to hook-up the resources. Not necessarily moving to get the gold, but it does bring into play the spices as well. Not that I can do anything with the spices at this point, but it is a good thing for later, as...

So, if you remember, I posted a thread with Bismarck stuck in isolation. I appreciated everyone's comments on that thread and decided to give it another whirl, with a different leader. Custom game; Prince Level; Shuffle Map; Normal Size; Normal Time So, the game has been launched and the...

Thank you to all that have read and invested your time and advice into this thread. I have played this map for far too long and have decided that I will abandon this map/game. I have learned an unbelievable amount from you and I am very thankful for that. However, one can play/look at the...

No file :( EDIT: I see said the blind man! Danke!

Ok...went back a bit and played to 50 AD, probably too long...oh well. Nidaros and Berlin are the top 2 cities in the world. Not sure that means too much, but they are. Attempted to make better use of the workers and work the better tiles first. Stuck on Tech tree now...not sure to...

Duly noted. Will work on settling and improving the cities before Caste System...

An improvement....I'll take it! lol I think I will attempt to stay Jewish and run with that. Toyed with the idea of founding other religions, but I think if I stay Jewish and spread the word, that should suffice and I can use the beakers elsewhere instead of on religion. CoL is what I am...