Recent content by Montezumas Hat

I pretty much only play on marathon (in Civ V and BE), and my first few victories in the expansion (all on Vostok, so I admittedly haven't had much trouble with the AI) have all been before turn 700. And I haven't had a game yet where I've been rushing a victory. I finished Contact victory...

I've been defending America's UA for a while now, but some of these suggestions actually sound great. The +1 sight I massively underrated and should stay, but replacing the tile buying effect with tourism or something else would be great. One idea I had was to take advantage of the Melting...

So you default from an unremarkable leader to one who did even less? Lincoln or FDR probably have the most credentials for leaders of the US. Actually, Polk fits the UA perfectly, and was far more successful, but no one knows him, so. I'd appreciate seeing more non-European civs just to...

I actually just had a though religion game on Prince/Continents/Marathon as Arabia. I started next to Byzantium, who weirdly didn't start a religion, but on her other side was Ethiopia, who even with the cities and no wonders was sending three missionaries at a time to take back Consantinople as...

I don't understand this sentiment at all. In fact, it's literally the opposite; the extra resources give you more reason to settle in great off-continent trade locations. As opposed to civs like Morocco, whose UU and UI lose usefulness without desert. Or Brazil not getting jungle tiles...

I don't get it, does no one ever have islands on their Continents maps? If Indonesia is dependent on land, then France is surely worse - if you don't get enough production in your capital to hit some wonders with theming bonuses, then your UA is nearly useless. Admittedly though, it's hard to...

Reformation beliefs let you either buy every great person, or science buildings, or post industrial military units. Follower beliefs let you buy pre-industrial military or buildings to net you culture, happiness, more faith, and even great art slots. Plus, missionaries/great prophets let...

I figured it'd be necessary to combine Piety and Trad/Lib, but I'm not sure anymore. Whenever I do that, I hit Piety and Organized religion first, then fill out the second tree. But by the time I'm filling out the rest of Piety, it takes so long to get policies it hardly seems worth it. That's...

I've personally been noticing more islands on maps in general. I have one game on Continents where I would have had three solid to brilliant spice cities, all before astronomy. They play much better on islands, of course, but I'd say their UA is far from useless on maps with more land. I'm...

1. Open Piety, take everything, get an early religion. 2. Find a really good city nearby enough to trade with. 3. Focus all your trade routes on that city. 4. If possible, get Petra for an extra trade route. 5. Get the grand temple. Right now in my Arabia game, I have four trade routes...

I've mostly been going Piety, actually. Granted, I've been playing Arabia and Indonesia, but still, I've found it to be mostly a good replacement for the other three, save for the comparable lack of culture. If your religion doesn't give culture, the policies basically stop coming in, which is...

Just started building them, they're fantastic. 2 food, 2 production and 2 gold with Petra/Kasbah on tiles that previously yielded nothing. Unfortunately, mine are all nowhere near the exposed parts of my empire, so I don't get the take advantage of the fort aspect, at least this game.

Aren't there like, twelve different versions of this same thread? Inca are better due to cheap or free roads. India is better due to internal food routes making their UA worthwhile sooner. Iroquois are better due to caravans moving through forests/jungles like roads. America is better due to...

I haven't hit all the new civs, but I've been pleased with all the ones I've played; Poland's free policies are great, along with Ducal Stables making pastures nuts, Morocco's trade bonus is nice and the Kasbahs are nuts, especially when stacked with Petra, and Arabia's new faith focus in...

I've actually been switching down from marathon to epic for the same reasons. I love the extra time, but what takes me one night in epic takes four or five in marathon, which is ridiculous. I still haven't reached Industrial, and I'm probably gonna hit it on the epic game I started this...