Recent content by Matjillam1

In single player, diplomacy is VERY determined by previous actions (or non-action) against the AI. Some times, they can be so mad, that they NEVER wanna trade with you ever again. And sometimes, you just think: "come on, YES I declared war on you, but that was 1000 years ago! I'm trying to...

Yeah, but have you ever seen native americans being close as score leader? :) I haven't

Which civs do u find the AI just can't play right and are therfore allways easy to beat by you or other AI's? Here's my list: Native Americans - They are NEVER very advanced, even if they had a good start. And they aren't a big military builder either. Frankly, I can't figure out what they...

Well, I've allways thought, that civ's should have several UU. And I definately think Englang should have on. Like "Walish Longbowman", which could have some extra first strikes or something :)

This is a more history vs. civ question. Because in civ, Elephants gets bonus vs. mounted units. But as far as I remember, wasn't it exactly mounted units that was used AGAINST elephants? If I remember correctly, the romans used horsemen with torches riding around the carthagian elephants...

I'm gonna try it :) I will make a game with ONLY conquest clicked and add some peacemongers like Ghandi, M&M and Hapse

Hmmm, guess a game with Genghis, Alexander, Shaka, Montezuma, Catherine, Isabella, only conquest vic clicked and aggressive AI would make a fun game then :) Thx for the answer

I just wondered, does the AI play after what victory conditions, that is the players has chosen? Like, if u have unclicked all but cultural, would the AI only use strategies that would be able to give them those 3 epic cities? And would the peaceloving AI's be more aggressive if only...

I've just recently upgraded to 3.13 (I know, lazy me) Is it just me, or did the barbs get a huge boost? I recently moved up to emperor, but suddenly I can't compete on that because barbs are kicking my butt early game and slowing my growth so much I can't compete in later game! I feel like I'm...

I often hear ppl say things like: "Protective is the lowest tier trait" and "Organized is mid-tier". Well, I'm curious. what does YOUR tier-system look like and why? I'll begin (tier 1 being bad and tier 4 being good): 1. tier - Protective (it just sucks overall, I mean how often do u spam...

Well, phalanxes wouldn't help him, cause they only get +def against chariots :) He had to build spears NC is gr8 for defence, especiallly if the AI forgot to bring spears (Happened to me once. 6 NC demolished Monty's army of cats + axes + jaguars getting insane XP)

I've never used horse archers a lot (except when I rarely was Mongols) But in my last game, they REALLY showed their worth: Alexander DoW'ed me in pretty early game (gee, was I surprised ;)) He went after a city on a great city site with 10-12 units consisting of 4-5 cats, 2-3 swords...

It's that much on epic? Damn, they weren't even close then :) (think Timbuktu and Paris had 80-90.000) well, at least it was fun raising them

Hi there :) I just had my first win on emperor, after a few tries (Weee, gratz to me) :D Anyways, in this game, 2 other ppl (Mansa and Louis) went for cultural vic (but raised Paris, Lyon, Timbuktu and Gao, so they didn't get it ;)) But I didn't know, exactly when they were gonna win...

I got three words for you guys: Hemispheres, hemispheres, hemispheres! U get continental fun, with a lot of stratetic challenges for wars AND a lot of fun colonization and wars over islands with nice resources! A tip: use snaky continents and islands :) That's a blast for you!