Recent content by MrMitra

I think SV might be my only option. I used battleships to take 2 cities from Caesar including Rome so now I have most of the wonders in the world. The problem is only one other civ went Freedom (an also-ran civ at that) so I have that pretty brutal ideology tourism modifier on most civs. Also...

Picture of my country in spoiler: I think I will try to conquer Rome (although I need to build my military from pretty much scratch). They are the wonder-whoring civ this game so having Rome would help with any potential cultural victory. I am the science leader by a slight margin (my...

After a bit of a hiatus, I fired up CiV again with hopes of working up to Deity. I previously beat the game at King (granted I steamrolled with Portugal on an islands map) so I decided to jump in at Emperor. I started a standard size fractal map with the Celts. I'm now in the industrial era...

So I'm loving Gods & Kings so far after a break from Vanilla. I like the wonder rushing and city building of the classical/medieval ages, and enjoy the wars of renaissance and industrial eras. I also enjoy naval wars and I am happy to see the naval combat AI has been improved (always felt like...

Well I've made it to 1 AD but things aren't going smooth. Here's the recap: 2520 BC - Teching Writing. Horses popped in Perse BFC 2440 BC - Pasagadae founded 1E of yellow. Starts on warrior. (I was risky and didnt send an escort) 2200 BC - Writing done, IW now 2160 BC - Finally...

Alright my adventure has begun: 4000 BC - I settle in place and the hut pops gold. I plan to research fishing > mining > BW. I start building a warrior. 3640 BC - Warrior done, on to WB 3480 BC - meet Sury, Buddhism founded turn before 3080 BC - meet Toku. Not sure what to make of...

I looked it up and saw that Persia starts with Agriculture and Hunting. I'm considering popping a warrior first since besides farming the plains, there's really nothing for my worker to do til I get BW.

Oops I forgot about the map settings. I edited them into my original post. I think it would be cool if people shadowed, especially if I crash and burn. Then someone can bust out a save and show how they avoided the pothole I ran into.

So I have been inspired by Orion's home school threads, so I have decided to do one (or some) of my own. There will be one major difference, I suck at this game and have never won on Noble. What this will mean is I will make plenty of mistakes and there's a good chance I will lose. My minor...

So I think I am still confused on when I should build cities. I thought it was more about quality versus quantity. I figured I shouldn't build one out there due to all the dead tiles. I don't want my maintenance costs to get out of hand.

So I went out and bought BtS today and decided to give it a whirl as Churchill using the things I've learned over the last few days. I'm playing on Noble with Standard Continents. I have screenshots in the spoiler below. Right now I'm in an interesting diplomatic situation. From what I can...

So I have Vanilla now and I'm thinking about getting BtS. Would I be missing much if I got BtS and skip over Warlords?

So I've been reading the strategy guides and these forums for the last couple of days and I'm slightly confused on what people feel is the best (under normal circumstances) starting build/tech order. I've been playing Toku lately with this build order (Warrior, Settler, Worker) and this...

I started another game and I used the the HA rush strat I read somewhere else on here. I'm still amazed though. Even after wiping out a 5 city civilization and still had a good number of horse archers running around plus my city defenses, I still had the second smallest military. I pumped out...

So I've decided to dust off my Civilization 4 game and try my hand at ruling the world. Sadly it has not gone well. I am playing on Noble on a standard continents map. I am trying to avoid early wars since it seems like if I get involved that early all my resources go into fighting the war...