Recent content by Karlsen

If you are not in a port and the Galley has at least one movement point, just crash it into the land. The unit(s) will be able to come off. If out of movement points, you can select the galley, then select the unit(s) and move them manually (assuming they started the turn on the galley).

Should have put this in the original post - Chieftan level and 1.16f Upto negative 419 a turn, still communist and one little island city left before the war and game is over (even as Communist corruption is rampant, when it is over I might keep playing switch to democracy and see if the...

To place this question in context: A am playing Communist German on a huge map and have almost finished wiping the rest of the Civs off the map. I haven't bothered to count cities but I am guessing somewhere above 100 maybe even close to 150. Have been on a non-stop blitzkreig for the last...

Basic rule of thumb, the bigger the map and the more units that are present (which always is more on a bigger map anyway) the slower it is going to get. I'd stay away from huge maps on a P166 - otherwise it may start feeling like a PBM :)

Civilization the board game is still very available and has been for a long time. An excellent game, although we have found 7 player games take 7-10 hours to finish. Whilst sharing the same name (Avalon Hill's Civilisation and Sid's Civ I, II & III) they are, to my mind, very different...

Turning off my automatic moves does stop the stupid 5 square jumping, although it does mean you sit looking at a frozen screen until your worker arrives at the mystery destination (i.e. because you are not showing the move you don't actually see where the worker ended up)

The big deal that your Panzers are already 2 or 3 cities further down the track and more to the point, they don't need to wait for the artillery to do the softening up. They are more than adeqauate at doing that themselves. As I mentioned above, I used them on the initial attacks and then...

No not the fact that no enough workers are sent to clean up the pollution (which is a bug that should be fixed). I found in the current game (Huge map, Lots of units on the map) that when selecting Shift-P to get a worker to clean up some pollution automatically that the worker actually moves...

Now admittedly I am playing at a lowish level and thus have the scientific jump on the other Civs, but I have found after the first few turns of a big war as the Germans (obvious really) that my artillery are totally useless. The Panzers are rushing ahead and the artillery just cannot keep...

Or just keep the manual handy and remember pages 196-200

I have never seen a captured city without anything supplied by my own wonders (i.e. granary, barracks, hydro plant spring to mind). I don't always stand off and bombard into submission before occupying, so either everything is being destroyed or the previous owners has never been interested...

Well there are those two lots of ivory that you haven't got :-)

Excellent reply Dan. Short, succint and to the point.

Don't people read the manual, or at least flick through it? I highly recommend pages 197-198 for unit orders. It sped my game play up after quick look.

Why not just fix the bugs to deal with pollution? i.e. The automagic clean pollution shift-P doesn't stop after sending two workers, it keeps sending them until the pollution is cleaned up? Also make the Automated workers move first so they go and clean up pollution (or make sure they do)...