Recent content by lynxcat

Just wanted to say thanks for putting this up. I've been struggling to jump from Emperor to Immortal, and I'd never realized how effective building wealth can be for keeping your tech rate up. It tends to escape notice in screenshot walkthroughs, so the video format helped me a lot.

I've always thought Rifles/Trebs are a better plan simply because you can draft Rifles but not Grens.

Ragnar seems like a ton of fun but probably really easy. He'd be one of the only civs in Europe with room to expand and the one-city civs should fall like dominoes to him. I'm guessing the game would be won by 1 AD. Shaka, Boudica or Sitting Bull all seem like they'd be interesting.

Probably the funniest thing I've ever read on these forums.

If you're getting whupped on Chieftain, then your problems are not going to be solved by switching leaders. I think you just need to play more until you have a grasp on the fundamentals of the game - specializing your cities, executing an invasion strategy, optimizing your tech path, having...

When I'm teching Scientific Method I generally focus on minimizing the amount of time that I have SM (and thus aren't benefiting from monasteries, GL, etc) but don't have Bio or Communism. Usually that means either saving a GP to bulb part of the next tech, being in a golden age or running...

Excellent...I could never figure out the rhyme or reason for some automated worker actions. Thanks!

This basically sums up my opinion after playing 4 full games on BtS. The AI definitely manages itself more intelligently. In my second game I was impressed that Huayna was actually going to pull off a culture win before I could launch my spaceship (unfortunately due to me mismanaging the new and...

Thanks for the replies. I picked up the game yesterday and I played up to about 500 AD with Monty last night. My first random event was obviously a barb uprising in 2800 BC, but my second attempt went very smoothly. The early game seems relatively unchanged, with a few exceptions...I had gold in...

Hello everyone. Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been playing Civ4 for about a year now, gradually moving from Warlord up to Monarch/Emperor difficulty. However, all my experience is with the vanilla version. I'm picking up Beyond the Sword this week, and I'd appreciate any advice I can...