Recent content by mikeydlaw

Yeah I wasn't sure which icon to use, I think the one I have just added is the right one?

I tried this a few times on Diety and never got the wonders at the beginning. I'm not really ready for Diety yet though, I've only just stepped up to Immortal. There have only been a few occasions where I have been overwhelmed by the opposition army early on but you are right in that it's a big...

You usually don't need to build any units until you get Gunpowder/Chemistry, you buy three archers at the beginning of the game and upgrade them to crossbowman when you can. Often your warrior gets the spearman upgrade from an ancient ruin and that can be upgraded to a pikeman. Those units along...

The strategy only involves having one city and university is usually built in 3 turns. I agree though it didn't really save you that many turns using it for Machinery. Maybe better used for Rifleman.

My initial strategy was to go to war with crossbowman and pikeman using oxford university to get Machinery. From memory I found it difficult without iron/catapults. I found using this strategy that I was able to defend most of the time until I had cannons/musketman which usually gives you a...

You probably get Marble about 20% of the time, marble is not essential though, in fact Great Library is probably not essential either. It just makes it more challenging. I'd say Hanging Gardens is pretty essential though. If you do get a good starting position with Marble you have about a 50%...

I say my strategy but I'm sure this strategy has probably been discussed here already or similar variations. I wanted to post anyway for future reference and perhaps someone might find it useful. Settings are... Egyptians, small map size, pangaea, standard game speed, random opponents...

Thought I should also add, it crashes not long after starting a new game, usually a matter of seconds.

Has anyone else experienced crashing on their Mac version of Civ 5? I've just purchased it so running the latest build 1.0.2. I have the mid 2010 i7 model MBP with 8GB ram. I've had to run the gfxCardStatus app to stop Lion OSX from crashing all the time (still crashes now and then). By far...

Managed a win in 1660AD. Probably the best map I have had with 7 cutlural CS's. Only 4 maratimes though, 2 of which I only found near the end of the game. The CS's were all over the place, 6 were on separate islands to the two main continents and 1 I never found. I tried to find it after I...

Managed 1814 win, disapointed I couldn't go earlier than 1800 as I thought I was on track by 1000AD. Biggest mistake was not grabbing enough cities early on and then not running scientists in my capital early enough so didn't tech to Telegraph till mid 1500's which seems to be too late. I wasn't...