Recent content by LostCrumb

To summarize the essence of your thoughts: once you have decided to switch to state property, stay there until the bitter end. The only real threat is the U.N. This problem can be solved by 1.) build the U.N. yourself, 2.) conquer or destroy the U.N., 3.) conquer enough cities to be able to...

Hi everyone, In most of my games, I typically skip State Property in the late game. Instead I am running Free Market or Environmentalism if I have severe problems with health. However, I have the impression, that many Civ players consider State Property to be a very strong civic, so I decided...

Thanks for your helpful thoughts! I have to admit, I didn’t try that. In my game I was running a cottage economy. My idea was just to assign some merchants to finance my expansion by generating and settling some GMs. It worked fine, but I think the forum did not make such a great...

Hi everyone, Last weekend I planned to start a game with Julius Caesar. I spent some time thinking about how I could leverage the unique traits of Caesar/the Romans: Imperialistic means faster settlers and faster great generals, the Organized trait allows keeping more cities early and once...

Julius is weak, he has no metal yet … doesn’t this make him a perfect target for Keshiks? I vote for pillaging him back to Stone Age, while staying friends with Mansa Musa and Churchill for a while. I would build two Keshiks first and attack Julius immediately before he hooks up his iron...

I agree with the second option. Pilliage your enemies back to stone age! Why not build small stacks (2 or 3 units) of Keshiks and pillage all improvements of Brennus’ land and deter him/her from rebuilding them? First target the bronze and iron mines, than everything else. As many people...

That sounds like a good idea for leaders like Augustus, who start with fishing and mining. Thanks, I'll search it :)

Could you explain a bit more about the Work Boat first start? I have always the feeling, I'm starting slower with it. I understand, your capital has time to grow while building the work boat, which should be a good thing. But when it finished the work boat, the city might be size 2 or 3, so it...

I prefer War Chariots over axes. Once I overrun all three neighbours on my continent with them, and I didn't face a single phalanx. You will lose lots of War Chariots in the rush, so it doesn't matter, if you think they get quickly obsolete. The surviving units won't serve you in battle against...

Two questions to you guys out there: Can we assume, that Sisutil starts at a jungle strip, because there is rice an gems? This would mean lots of space for cottages, when the jungle has been cut down :-) I have the feeling, that most of the calendar ressources are located at the jungle and...

Well, agreed. And you can still can replace some farms with cottages later.

I like the idea of running a SE. But I would not farm those floodplanes. If I run SE in my games, I always place cottages around the Capital, because you need to pay the maintenance for your empire somehow, and you get the bureaucracy bonus. These floodplains can be worked immediately, so the...

I would at least make Hippo another research power-house by working more cottages there instead of mines. And I think, building an observatory instead of a bank would be more beneficial as long as you leave the science slider high enough. Lost Crumb

Since this is my first post in this forum, I would like to say hello to everyone first. Without this forum, I would never have got such a deep understanding of the game as I have right now. Thanks to everyone, who contributes to this forum. From my point of view, Sisiutil, your empire is in a...