Recent content by Lanzelot

Yes, on Sid, you don't get the "Anarchy Bonus", but at least you prevent the pop-rushing of extra defenders. (Though the question is: the AI revolts during your turn, right after receiving Republic. Will the 1-turn anarchy also already be over during that interturn on Sid? Then they might simply...

Worked ok when I downloaded it (on Apr. 4).

As far as I remember, if you have two resources and you trade away one, and then lose the other, the trade remains active and you end up with zero resources for yourself. The trade only breaks down, once you lose both resources.

True, this happens mainly in the early game, where a) AI is still in despotism and b) hasn't build a lot of units yet. Would be interesting to see, whether they do it "always", or only if they don't have "enough" units yet or only in towns that are endangered?! (Though as I usually strive to...

For some reason, I never noticed this thread. And I begin to think: shouldn't this be in the Strategy forum, where all the other "Conquests guides" are? Maybe we should even have a subforum of the Strategy forum for all the strategy guides dealing with the Nine Conquests? There is quite a lot of...

6-9-6-9 --- a very interesting 4-turner cycle indeed! :yup: And if you have an iron hill or mountain, it can even be done in despotism!

It's not a bug, it's a feature: upon getting a declaration of war, the AI immediately pop-rushes a defender (usually a spearman) in all towns that have pop > 1, even though it is not their turn... For that reason, it is well-known practice to gift the AI Republic the turn before your attack...

That doesn't destroy the base. I vividly remember a multiplayer game, where I captured an enemy's airbase with a marine and then flew in a big stack of units in the same turn... :smoke: But as r16 said: just keep pillaging... once the everything else is pillaged, the airbase will go last...

I don't think I saved at 1000BC. Perhaps I still have an autosave?! (But since I'm playing this on my new Win11 box, Civassist auto-archive no longer works (have to load manually each turn, and neither archive nor the map feature works :()

Thanks a lot to @MrRandomGuy for stepping in!! :goodjob: :hug:

Some time ago, I analyzed a few of the really fast 20K victories for PtW, and I think it does indeed depend on a certain luck factor with early MGLs. I usually have pretty bad luck with MGLs, sometimes conquering the entire world without getting a single MGL... For example, comparing GOTM191 in...

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In the very early GOTM games, there were sea monsters: barb nests on the coast spawning monsters instead of galleys. But I never played one of these.

Exactly. I have seen it happening, but it takes lots and lots of fighting. You can increase the chances for the "last" promotion somewhat, by attacking "easy prey" while the Army is like 5/14 or 4/14, because then it is guaranteed, that the two elites are at the moment only 1/5, so the last...

Yes, I was talking about the screenshot of Kyoto from the first post.