Recent content by MikeUK

Thanks for all the advice! Time for another crack at it!!!

Thanks for that! I've just realised another query I had. To win a domination victory, do you have to have the specified amount of the whole land or just the specified amount of land that is occupied (if you get what I mean!)?

Just one more question: Do you keep or raize the cities you capture? To me it seems that raizing cities is best unless the city has some important resource or wonder!

This following scenario is common at the moment in my games and I don't know how to reverse it. Has anyone else found games regularly following this pattern: Game starts pretty evenly but I'm ahead in score. One aggressive opposition decides to declare war on another AI civ (in my current...

Thanks guys for the advice! I suppose I've always tried to increase the size of my cities before producing workers. I'll try some of your tips the next time I play!

On most of my games the computer always powers ahead of me early on and I can't understand why! I assume that it follows the same laws as human players yet at the moment in my game it is way ahead early on. It feels to me like there is only a limited strategy early in the game with regards to...

Does anyone else find the inclusion of vassal states highly frustrating at times? I was up against Huayna Capac, Charlemagne and Alexander. Charlemagne capitulated very early to Capac so I already felt at a big disadvantage. After struggling to overcome Alexander, Capac all of a sudden declared...

Genv is correct! I hadn't spotted that knights had become available!

On my game I have a pasture where I've been building horse units. All of a sudden the horse units became unavailable even though the resource is on the city screen. I rebuilt the pasture, and now the horse units have just vanished from the city screen! What's happened?

What frustrated me about the modern battles was that fighter jets just seem to come out of nowhere, making bombing cities very difficult!!

I've just tried my first game where I've waited until I've gained modern units to attack the enemy. However I had no luck at all. The computer just battered me into submission with its powerful army. Can someone please give some hints about the best way to go about this type of war? Also do...

On my game I was aiming to win through diplomacy. I controlled the Apposolistic Palace and was ahead in votes. However when I decided to build the UN my opponent suddenly had more votes than me and duly became Secretary General. Should I give up on diplomacy and try to beat him? He appears to...

I'm trying for a Diplomatic victory for the first time and was wondering what's the earliest time I can gain victory? Do I have to build the United Nations, as I would rather do this with just the Aposollistic Palace?

What's a UU?

Can someone give me some tips please on expansion. I'm trying a new game on Noble (hardest I've ever tried) and have only managed to get 4 cities and it's already 900AD! My opponents already have about 9 cities each. Creating settlers just takes so long and with everything else that needs...