Recent content by mattie_p

In my opinion you have too many farms and not enough cottages. It will be difficult to remedy that at this point though, and probably the reason why you are near bankrupt. But swap some out anyway. You need money to fund research. But you don't need 500gp in the bank, its not doing you any good...

In addition to chopping out The Great Lighthouse as others recommended above, you have Alphabet, do start investigating AI techs and start trading. I'm surprised you haven't researched at least to priesthood already, as most here would strongly recommend attempting to get The Oracle for the...

As Izuul said, creative isn't all that great if you are aiming for a culture victory. It actually works better for an early domination victory on small maps, as conquered cities expand their borders faster (no need for stonehenge, because all you are building are units). Financial is always...

I can't see why not, so long as you don't exceed the maximum for standard size (10 opponents).

Organized or Expansive would pair well here. Organized to reduce maintenance + faster lighthouse and courthouse. Expansive for faster granary, harbor (prereq for customs house). Darius I is Organized + Financial. Pacal II is Financial + Expansive. Mehmed II is Expansive + organized and I...

It depends. I just played with WB and it looks like AIs at noble get 12 bonus hammers when they found their city. So you might get only 2 free rounds. This does not seem to be reflected in this thread I found on AI bonuses. I suspect that the AI is just moving the warrior around to...

Yeah, so I skipped the part where it says highest score. Was so happy to beat enKage by time.

Very impressive, TalladegaKnight. Congratulations! I'm going to have to step up my game, it appears. (I already knew I needed to do better).

If it helps, I had 28 cities at the end of the game. I had captured stonehenge early, which helped with land area, but I definitely needed it. I could have done it with maybe one or two fewer, I think (last couple of cities didn't pop their borders yet to the BFC), but was distracted by my final...

The best play is to let your enemy make Stonehenge and take it from their cold dead hands.

That is an interesting perspective, and may well prove to be correct. I guess we will see as more entries come in.

Actually, I killed 5. I miscounted. 2 remaining, so I think I did have the maximum available. I could do better optimization in a couple of areas, the order of target civs I warred on was inefficient. I also should have turned on no razing, lost some time there. Yeah, I couldn't find them...

Well, I just submitted my first attempt at this, achieved domination at exactly 800AD, on turn 150. I built no wonders, although I conquered all 4 built by the end of the game (Oracle, Stonehenge (my first target), Great Wall and Pyramids), and wiped 4 civs in the process. Not a bad...