Recent content by LatestGuy

I was wondering why can't a city build Espionage, I don't know if there's a reason.

After I read this report, I tried US on the new map for the first time. It was a great game (Monarch/Marathon 1700 start). I attacked New Orleans, then I hunted Spanish all along the border with Mexico straight to the West Coast in order to seal my southern front before Mexican birth. I had to...

I made this proposal

In my pleasant ongoing America game (1700AD, Normal/Marathon), I noticed something strange: it's 1890 and peace won. Nobody is at war for several turns. EDIT - Nevermind. The Great War was just around the corner (oh, how I miss my Belle Epoque!)

Monarch/Marathon. Regarding 3rd UHV, it can also occurr that super-Ottomans make things very difficult, so it might be useful taking (historical) Athens from them asap to slow down their run.

I'm not sure about your proposed new UU. Unlike history, in RFC you aim to unify Italy before Renaissance and fight your industrial era wars outside Paeninsula. In the past, there was Bersagliere (infantry with double movement points), but I'd rather prefer to keep Balestriere. As we can see in...

I finally did it, Monarch/Marathon. With the new expanded core, stability is no more a pain. As suggested, I delayed colonization, staying all by myself and buliding whatever I could in my 4-cities-kingdom until 1620s. Some tips from my experience: 1) Ziwa was my first colony, it will be the...

From the second-last update: tech divergence works well. I enjoyed a monarch/marathon 600AD game till the late 19th century, tech pace was pretty good, at last newborn civs are not behind the ancient ones. Just a worry about the latter update. Would an isolated civ like surviving Korea do too...

I'm still trying to do my best to achieve UHV victory; my games are long Marathon ones, so I can give only few attempts. I decided to found York: it gives more space to my capital, great scientific center with Academia and so on. I agree that Oxford isn't mandatory; i prefer to save an engineer...

Prussian game, 600AD start, Regent/Normal 1700. Super-Spain again, but this time partially collapsed around 1620. Tech pace is fine: as you can see, every late civ at spawn is a little bit ahead of tech leader (in this game, was England, even if it did not start its colonization at all - it's a...

Canadian game, 600AD Regent/Normal 1866. Tech pace is good, insignificant British Empire, super-Spain, pretty good Ottomans, it seems that the center of the world was arounde the Strait of Gibraltar. Eastern Siberia and West America are still a problem. 1966. Same as before. Spain and Moors...

I'll run some Regent/Normal tests today. If it could be usefeul somehow, I played a couple of Monarch/Marathon games with England since the last update. Things are better, even for tech UHV, but still unbalanced (e.g. weird Eiffel Tower in Valladolid in 1792, my great medieval Norse tech...

A suggestion fo Saint Sophia's Cathedral. In order to avoid its usual building by Byzantines, it could request a steppe tile in city radius; it seems that it was built to celebrate his decisive victory over the nomadic Pechenegs in 1036, so the link with dangerous barbarians from steppes shuld...

A request for the Rus. They should prioritize the settlement of Novgorod over Moskva. They usually go for Kiev-Minsk-Moskva from the beginning, which is weird.

I don't know if that's the case, but I noticed that Spain usually skyrockets when it acquires Cordoba too early and/or if some great wonder, such as House of Wisdom or the Spiral Minaret, has been built in there.