Recent content by mattio

stupid thread

The analogy is inaccurate. If you think there were no 'civilized' societies among the Native Americans, your knowledge of history is poor. Do more homework on the Huron or the Wyandot. For starters, the 'civilized' Central and South Americans practiced far more ritual bloodletting and...

Re: body hair, white people have the most abundant body hair because there is more remnant genetic material present from homo sapiens-neanderthal crossbreeding, before they became extinct; something like 1% of non-African people's genes are neanderthal remnants. It's also why white people go...

By which I mean, if you have hills available. If you don't have any hills available at all, say if you're on a flat open plane, or if the enemy has all available hills under control, then the situation doesn't favor the promotion. Most literal interpretation of 'situational', related or...

I always find uses for Guerrilla promotions, hills can be a bit sparse but that's a huge defense bonus when you -do- find them. I find it's never a bad idea to throw one or two Guerrilla shooters just to defend my stack when I move through hilly terrain. Plus, if any of them survive to G3...

I agree, and I apologize about snapping like that. Climate change is a sensitive subject for me, largely because there's so much half-baked horsehockey from half-informed shitheads who think they're in the know, and the idea of the whole concept flying out of humanity's hands kinda worries me a...

Modern human activity does not -start- climate change, but it does -affect- it, and dramatically. Just because the climate has been slowly changing for thousands of years does not mean humanity is without blame; what we are doing is turning a one-thousand-year cycle into a one-hundred-year...

Actually that +1 xp isn't bad even without the Guerrilla promotion, quick and clean and still effective. I also don't mind the idea of changing the building to Barracks, good info from Anaerin, how would it compare to the Zulu's?

Sorry, I don't know anything about the game mechanics of it, I thought you were asking about the real-world implications. GL.

As far as I know (and my history is no better than amateur) the Celts (and the Gauls), as natives of Germany and France respectively, actually had quite a lot of rough, hilly terrain to fight on, and yes, the city of Alesia was located on top of a large hill. However, I think that's beside the...

It worked! It worked almost perfectly. The only loss (between working with the save game, and starting a new game with the edited tag) was cultural borders, which are easy to replace, and it reverted every single improvement on the board to ancient era. Thank you very much, Barbarian King...

Interesting! That sounds close to what I was looking for. Thank you, very much. I'll try it out and check in with a report.

Hi, I was wondering if anyone here could help me out with a problem: I've recently been editing a map, but I don't use the map maker often, and in the process of placing improvements and experimenting with map-revealing techniques, I gave myself the Satellites tech for a moment, while at...

Anything? From anyone? Bump. Never mind, problem solved in the Creation & Customization forum, thanks anyway. Delete thread plz

Hi, I was wondering if anyone here could help me out with a problem: I've recently been editing a map, but I don't use the map maker often, and in the process of placing improvements and experimenting with map-revealing techniques, I gave myself the Satellites tech for a moment, while at...