Recent content by Lessa

Not unless one of those units dies. You need 1 iron for every unit you have that needs 1 iron. So if you only have 2 iron you can only have 2 units that require iron. If you mouse over the strategic resources on the top bar you can see how many of each you have and how many are in use.

Lots of trades seem to help. I play on Emperor and although I usually play on island type maps I find that, even if I am sharing my island, unless I am next to a real warmonger as long as I can get through the early stages, frequent trades keep me on good terms with them.

I will probably buy most if not all of them. Even if I begrudge the fact I have to, £5 every month or two is a small price to pay for extra content for a game I get many enjoyable hours out of.

Initially I would make a decision on how to start based on the leader. If I get India, Egypt or Siam come up I know I will be going small empire/culture. Aztecs/Japanese, I'm going war. Someone more in the middle, I will probably REX, possibly taking about my nearest neighbor to free up...

I have found that 2 works best, 1 leaves you short on cash for CS bribes,and 3 ups the policy costs too much. Bear in mind if you are playing a culture you while be filling out the patronage tree so will get a substantial science boost from your city states (at some points over half my research...

Except when it shunts them directly next to a barbarian! Which was how I found out about the change.

There are 4 variations of the Ice age map. Continents, Snaky continents, islands and tiny islands. I found that, at least when playing a peaceful game with 1 or 2 cities: Continents: AI right on top of you, lucky to get a good second city spot, and good chance that they settle close enough...

Played the Islands variation of the map as that seems to be the best mix of decent land and not having several AIs on top of you. Ended up sharing an island with the Ottomans, but by some miracle managed to keep on good terms with them all game. Went Great Library (Civil service), Oracle and...

I originally decided to give this one a try fully expecting to get slaughtered, given I had been struggling at Prince. But after 4 successful attempts it appears I do much better at Emperor than I do at the lower difficulty :confused:. I was quite proud of my 1918 Greek win until I saw...

I assumed it was a case of "game balance" it was just the concept of a free religon society that was all about being open to any religon not being able to spread those religons that bugged me.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!! I rarely let the computer run my cities for me anymore, which would be why I never managed it again. I had assumed that I must have clicked it while accidentaly holding down some combination of keys that I couldn't replicate.

I've seen the yollow box and it does 'lock' those specialists, but I have never been able to work out how to do it on purpose.

Fair enough. I swear in my last game when it came up it was for more landmasses than I had. I must have missed a couple of tiny islands somewhere!

On larger maps the blessed sea one can ask you to settle more land masses than there actually are which is very annoying.

I have to admit to having to continually go in to cities to re-assign the spies to be scientists or merchants instead is really annoying. It would be really cool if you could set a preference for each different specialist, so it would assign them it that order.