Recent content by mathfreq

Thanks for all the thoughtful and helpful responses. I finished another game just now, following some of the tips I read in this thread and some other threads around here. It was an Emperor Pangaea game as Korea, standard size and speed. I achieved turn 283 SV, one of my fastest. I rerolled...

Emperor player here, looking to improve my science game. I consistently have a hard time finishing SV faster than late 200's or so, even with OP civs like Korea or Babylon. Maybe I'm bad at timing my culture, but I always seem to hit ideology (typically through Radio beeline) before I've had...

If there's no pressing need for one of the other choices, I find that an early great admiral can be helpful to allow scouting on continents-type maps without researching astronomy.