Recent content by KithKhan

If you start with a grain resource next to your capitol, you expand your first level in 5 turns, the next in 10, and the settler takes 15 or 30 turns to build total, it works out perfectly. I do alternate with spearmen on less effeciently placed cities, I'm aware that it takes a pop 3 to...

I think my first three units are settlers, two from the capitol and one from the first city, before I even bother with my first spearman\warrior, which is a little risky if you get hit by barbarians but usually works out. Then I usually make 2x settlers to spearman ratios in all cities except...

I realize that on regeant level and up keeping a standing army 2/3 as big as those monstrosities is easier said than done. (sorry, no way around it though) Hehehehe.

Ya, the problem with the AI is it judges you based on your total number of military units. Which means that it will make demands of you regardless of the quality of your army or most importantly your GNP. So if you want to avoid threats -> war then just keep a larger standing army... just...

It really sounds like you could have won much earlier, with the amount of forces you're describing. Or done a variety of things (space, culture victories, conventional arms to win earlier) with that amount of nukes. I mean, that' just kinda ridiculous! Way to go though, I'd love to launch off...

When playing on regeant or monarch level, I always end up outnumbered by enemy civs, and usually with slightly inferior units, and the only strategy I've figured out to deal with it is a defensive one. It works, and I can hold the territory I have with a ridiculous kill-loss ratio, but I can...