Actually it is pretty easy to have them survive that long on deity. One common method is to tech AL (build Pentagon and infantry) -> artillery...
That depends on how easy your empire can produce :gold: relative to :hammers:. Some cases make it a pretty strong gambit, i.e. you get a "free" GM...
Deity is a completely different animal than immortal. Because of the second settler, the AI is much more likely to beat you to the religions. In...
I'm not sure what is so bad about SB. You are essentially safe for the first half of the game. If you can pull off an oracle to feudalism gambit...
Pro LBs are annoying, but they can be dealt with in a few situations: 1. Knights. Knights are FS immune, have a very high base strength, and...
RJM: Actually by 1 AD you can have optics and being pushing out to circumnavigation. It is quite possible to have had it for far longer (with a...
Also recall that you WILL have late game GP ... and what exactly do you intend to do with them when they show up? Some can become corps, but aside...
How many is that (ballpark)? How is that number affected by modifiers (stone, OR, forge, etc.)? The map will often contain many marginal...
??? What do you do then with those crappy offshore islands that are only worth settling because they are +1 :commerce: on all your domestic TR?...
I have. SPI >>> every other trait. Forget about gains to the economy. SPI is the most flexible trait in the game. Hey Monty, why yes I will...
Well the most obvious one is a FIN civ on a highlands map with scads of windmills running the Kremlin with Rushbuy. In this case :commerce: =...
I dunno, I've whip built Moai many times one tile islands with nothing (settled for boosting domestic TRs originally). This turns a crappy city...
No. Being able to cycle whip under OR (theo) -> Pac is much stronger; add to this B/Nat/Vass, PS/Rep, and of course caste/slave itself (possibly...
Depends on how many of the suckers you have and what your mods are. For instance let's say you have something horridly hilly like certain sections...
There has been a spirited discussion about the merits of SP vs FM ongoing on the boards. You can produce FAR more outputs (:hammers:, :culture:,...
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