Recent content by Mantic0re

Victory condition thoughts: You have a lot of Annoyed civs in the Diplo screenie. I"m not skilled in manipulating the modifiers to make friends especially this late. I think traditional UN victory is out of the question now. To get votes you have to do two things simultaneously. 1)...

I'm an infrequent player at prince/king level. In general I'm a passive chicken who clicks rather than thinks through games. I'm really trying to change this pattern. Here is my latest nagging worry. My last two games were Liberty DomV. At the advice of Moriarty/Conscience I build roads...

I ask hoping that i improve and can play immortal/deity. If notre dame is unobtainable in most games at that level then I prefer to play without them. Which leads to a follow-up question: is a single lux enough to justify an expo (before printing press or similar midgame point)? Seems like i...

Oil in the #$%$ 4th ring again. Is there some mechanism that can get culture on a 4th ring tile or should I just make that garbage city? I'm only +3 happiness now, settling would mean stunted growth/production or stadium-spam since that's basically the only way to increase the cap at...

My ranged guys take these two promotions with 4th and 5th choice. Just curious how others play this out. Range still needs an eye on the target and if the terrain is rough you still may need to be within the 2-tile city bombard range. Logistics is dependably good for all situations...

Terrible prince player here with some dumb questions. Is an even pop distribution stronger/weaker than an uneven one at a particular happiness cap? ex: (13...14...14...14) vs (20...15...10...10) vs (30...10...8...7) I lean toward the 2nd case but am still learning. When we start...

I'm confused. I thought if I started building a Praetorian I could not pause building this one and begin working on a 2nd Praetorian without finishing the first. This limits the ability to store hammers for civic bonus tricks. Even if you mix in siege it still seems like your limited in how...

I'm light years away from being an Immortal level player but it is my experience that once you have Steel and a vassal or two you can ignore your "economy" and simply ram hammers down the AI's throat. As far as production goes...you can chain whip with enough food and the culture slider...

Opened this thinking I'd try to learn something and I feel like a civ-virgin. Went Pottery, Mining, BW, but can't decide on where 2nd city should be. (how many tiles before I incur additional maintenance?). Also seems I've got some worker turns to burn...depending on city placement I may...

Conflicting advice and a thorny decision between Amao (capitulate now) vs CivNoobie (kill, no cap). Would be interesting to see some in depth discussion like we see popping up around here over this very issue. I've had a few capitulation options stolen from me by AI-AI peacevassal...

Maybe a better question should be...what time-window is better for this game. Early aggression tends to be better (let diplomacy do some of this work for you, get AI's in war with each other to slow them down). I tend to wait too long. When I should have used axes I'll wait for catapults and...

This is probably a dumb question but here goes: Why Theology? In the very near future you'll be isolated right? so your shooting for AP cheese or culture? Always thought these VC's were better suited to small empires. I thought SB was a unit-spammer peacemonger espionage nuisance. Looks...

Grabbing Engineering at the point I mentioned serves to keep the capitulation chain moving. The power difference and the relative efficiency of Trebs means I can take 2 cities and get another vassal. I've always thought Trebs do well enough vs Fortified Longbow Garrison units. They are really...

Not sure what you mean by what kind of warfare. I can't remember the last time I declared, took two-three cities and then accepted peace. I guess this is another bad habit but I usually just attack until I have a new vassal or all their cities. Diplomacy is bad enough without a perma-grudge...

When preparing for Construction or Engineering warfare I have difficulty deciding how best to handle the happiness cap in the immediate future. On Monarch Difficulty I often have to self-tech Monarchy or Calendar although I can often trade for the all the prerequisites. Either option takes...