Recent content by majorkong

Def not optimal. You only have 7/8 trade routes.

My experience is that GP follow the civ's religion, regardless of the religion of the city in which they are born. For instance, Germany had four cities. All four followed my religion, and then he started a new religion in Berlin. I then captured Berlin and one other city. So Germany had only...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 42 Date submitted: 2012-09-01 Reference number: 27125 Your name: majorkong Game status: Diplomacy Victory Game date: 1620AD Turns played: 234 Base score: 1904 Final score: 4139 Time played: 20:42:00 Submitted save: Pacal_0234 AD-1620.Civ5Save Renamed file...

Game: Civ5 GOTM 41 Date submitted: 2012-08-25 Reference number: 27067 Your name: majorkong Game status: Culture Victory Game date: 1868AD Turns played: 304 Base score: 1045 Final score: 1741 Time played: 8:34:00 My first GOTM. Was fun. Only founded two cities. Adrianople was a...

Horsemen can take cities. Chariot archers upgrade to keshiks. I'd go full honor. Might not be optimal but it's fun for sure. I'd also go chivalry before education.

Infinity is quite a bit bigger than this.

There's no need to settle tons of cities. Honestly, two will often do just fine. Your capital, and your iron city. Sometimes you'll see another juicy city spot with lots of luxes and/or iron, and you'll want to settle that also. Two/three cities plus all the puppets you can handle will do just...

Here's my suggestion. Start a game on a Standard Pangaea as Rome. Found your city. Build a scout and two warriors while you tech to Writing. Take the Liberty branch and get the free settler. Buy a worker with your first 310 gold. Then do the following in possibly varying order: 1. Build...

Funny, I was going to say Darius too, then I read the responses.

Well, there's one problem. Specialists are, well, specialized. It's often preferable to work a tile instead. Here's a general plan for you: 1. Get Tradition and farm up your capital for massive growth rates. Get library and build the National College in your cap. Then prioritize...

Persia's +1 movement to all units during GA hasn't been mentioned but is also awesome. Knights and cavs get 4 movement which is great. Siege can move set up and fire on same turn. Rough terrain doesn't logjam units nearly as badly. Even workers can move to a forest or hill tile and start...

Doesn't sound like the processor has anything to do with it to me no matter how many flops it has. Do you hear the hard drive working during this time? I bet you're running out of RAM. When that happens the OS swaps out pages of memory to the hard drive and then has to swap them back in when...

I recently finished an Emperor game, Harun as an AI played something like your strategy. He had a good portion of his continent with lots of cities packed fairly close and he predominantly farmed his tiles. He had a really staggering population and outteched me to the end even though I was...

GG's are huge in battle. I'd suggest keeping your first one for battle so that you're always fighting with the GG bonus.

The AI still will buy luxuries for 300 IF they are in unhappy (possibly requires deep unhappy). They only cut it to 150 when they're in happy. Just finished a game. Was selling luxuries for 150 all game long. Then Harun goes on a massive conquering spree and all of a sudden he'll pay 300...