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It's not a bug, it's a feature!

More to the point is how to survive Deity Trajan + another random civ (worst was Peter with 40000 horsemen) without crippling yourself early on?

Guys. Is playing as Gorgo somehow hardcoded to spawn Trajan next to you? Tried it several times, he's always near me, maybe it was really bad luck? His legions shred hoplites and take anything that is not my capital in record time. I can't placate him and conquer the other Ai that spawns near...

My take is such: I have limited time to play. I would rather play an enjoyable start. Playing with a low production start or completely boxed in by mountain ranges or some such is a sub optimal use of my time. Can such games be won? Probably, domination snowballs and you only need 4-5 archers...

Seems so, because my field guns oblitherated promoted pikes and crossbowmen, and did a fair chunk of damage to cities until said cities surpassed them era wise, then the field guns did only 1/4 of their damage.

Trajan did the equivalent of ethnic cleansing in Dacia (because Decebalus was a moron, but nevertheless). Genghis Khan butchered entire cities and strung the people up so that other cities along his path of conquest would not resist. Scipio Africanus rased Carthage to the ground and salted their...

http://www.filedropper.com/gorgo104300bc http://www.filedropper.com/gorgo2791816ad One earliest and latest saves provided.

A scenario sure, but I want the animated leader screens. I want to see Adolf flip his lid when I DoW him as Poland :D

I imagine you get a red coat if you're at the appropraite tech level? Thus on Deity you'd be hard pressed to take anything with just a single unit of them by the time you reach the other continent. It is a nice boon if you've already launched a full scale invasion, battleships and field cannons...

Yes, grassland is the cornucopia of good tiles. It's the same in HOMM3 where the grassland races would get so much more loot compared to the others. The problem is that wtih any Civ you can end up on any terrain. You can get a jungle start with Arabia or a desert craphole island with Japan, or...

On Marathon the game is so skewed towards warmongering that I doubt I'd bother getting anything else than archers into crossbowmen and 1 horseman.

That is incorrect, spices spawn on them as well and they can be amazing tiles. See Marbozir's Deity game as Russia he uploaded recently.

Is there anything preventing Firaxis from making a WWII DLC? With uncle Adolf, friend Stalin and the likes?

Is ther a comprihensive list somewhere that lists all the GP? I'm embarassed to say I hadn't noticed I can skip GP to get a certain one, and it's good to know in advance what to plan for.

We are still exploring the game, the sample size of games played is too small to give it a good verdict. So far the only negative things that everyone agrees on is that auto cycle is ******ed and makes you missclick your armies on occasion, and that the AI is inconsistent in both war and its...