Recent content by MAvL

Sorry for the delay, I took a break from civ IV shortly after posting. I recently looked up my saves but to no avail. At this point, I think one of the following happened: I did not save regularly enough and did not have the reflex to inquire the issue when it happened, playing 50 turns or so...

Fixed borders means that you can't lose tiles to rival culture, and that you can hold on tiles (and capture some?) by placing soldiers on them, even if you have zero culture on them (or less culture than your ennemy). No fixed borders means your culture spreads your territory in a similar...

I'm currently in a game using Extramodmod unofficial. The calabim have been wiped out pretty early, and the AIs that killed them, bad as they are, neither capitulated them nor are able to manage their empires. As a consequence, every 20 turns or so a new Calabim empire arises from a violent...

I've started FFH2 this week. First game on prince, I picked the orcs who start in peace with barbarians but still are attacked with animal. I was surrounded by 3 4:strength: flying griffons, who levelled up on my meek 2:strength: goblins. Impossible to go out of my capital. Now I don't think...

I think Blizzard is technically a terrain feature akin to forest. It pops on the west and slowly and erratically moves to the East. Most of the times it disappear when going over a mountain. It both deals damage to units surrounding and deteriorate surrounding terrain, damaging improvement and...

The reward for sparing the Stag is not as immediate as the reward for killing it. I won't spoil you, but if you really want to know, the answer is in the pedia. "Also my "children" have been of the weaker ones, one scout with +20% strength and the guy with warmth" To be fair, most marks are...

Blizard inflict some damage over turn and prevents healing (up to some percentage, I don't think it kills), it greatly limits what your scouts/hunters/rangers can safely do, cold resist allows you to ignore blizzard. Typically, they can go north where there isn't much blizzard and they can...

Yeah, I agree with your opening strategy. "I wonder if a city on the NW forested hill is really worth it" I usually don't build it, most the time it will only have ressourceless plain tiles to work. I guess if you go super defensive and don't expand for long it might be worth having an extra...

wow! I did not even know it was possible to have a golden age. Yeah your start definitely feels OP. I'm not sure about giving shock that early to Belenus. If you want to attack cities with javelineers later, it's kind of a wasted promotion, though I guess it defends against Lugh.

Yeah, if I had to pick a "best" rush approach on deity, I'd much rather archer rush with Epona than warrior rush with Belenus. Fire ball is more consistent than 80% odd fights, but more importantly, you're giving them time to settle one or two more cities (maybe even the horse one), and you're...

I cannot whip. I misorthographied wipe (warriors are mostly here to wipe ennemy scouts) and was talking about my playstyle in regular BTS (whip courthouses). Now even in regular BTS, it is often not that great to whip excessively in cities that reach size 8 with good tiles to work. In FFH AoI...

I tried Belenus warrior rush in Immortal just for the heck of it, and it turned out surprisingly well. I got peace with the Doviello without building a single military building by turn 80. That meant between the first and second Mulcarn attack. If I knew what I were doing, I think I could have...

Not really, the highest I've beaten it is Prince, without using the above mentioned trick, so I might retry on higher difficulty to put my theory to practice. As for heroes, obviously Epona is the best one, useful both in war time (Fireball) and in peace time (Heart), and mostly not...

Sorry for necro, I'm surprised this tip hasn't popped up: the cost to upgrade a unit is (4 + :hammers:difference) x :gold:. Compare to the base game, that is 20 plus 3 times the difference, in line with the cost of rushing in democraty, and detering you to upgrade anything but as an emergency...

Currently, Kamikaze feels Over Powered. Typically, pre air bombing attack of a strong place like a city with N defenders goes like this: Suicide N attackers to soften the defenders, mop them up with N other units. Sometimes a suicide units luckily lives, and often times a defender manages to...