Recent content by Naval Freak

I've got Vanilla Civ IV and Civ IV: Complete (via Steam.) Both work fine under W7 x64. Best I can say is recommend what's already been said - be sure to run _everything_ as administrator. Installer, updater, running the game - all of it!

Marathon. Though, I've set up a (basic) mod to keep unit production normal - makes wars more realistic.

here's the thing-privateers are good en masse. their low stats arnt good otherwise... :twitch:

I have not heard of RAM, but our Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers have a brand-new antimissile system- a vert-launch AEGIS system that fires missile after missile after missile at incomings-plus they still have Phalanx(vert-launch for long-range defence, CIWS for short range defence). i dont...

in WWI, the british achieved a spectacular drive with their Mark IVs, at the Battle of Cambrai. wot u need are tanks. screw yore current research path and go strait to tanks.

technically, the iowas are fast battleships, they were ment to outrun anything that could outgun them.

my first game was civ2, i built my cties 2 quares apart! ;)

beamup has a point, but u have got to find those islands. i have retreated to one in one of my games. my navy held off any invasions, and i made a run for nukes. nukes make excellent antiship weapons, trust me. i will say it again, surrond yore cities with forts and put units in them. this...

Hey, get the book Warships or something like that. it tells the story of all major warships from 1880 onward. there were only 4 iowas, we built them to counter 4 jap bbs that were ordered. the japanese only built 2; but each had 9 18.1 inch guns, kinda big. the alaska class just have the...

P.S.- i dont call myself Naval freak for nothing.

i follow a real-world srategy: battle groups. i only have a max of 4 BBs, since the BBS in civ are the Iowa-class BBS, and in real life there r 4. i have BB groups, w/ a BB as flagship w/ either 4 destroyers or 4 crusiers/AEGIS crusiers as escorts. then i have carrier battle groups, 1-2...

six flood plains? r u suicidal? those six will kill any pop u have in that city. 1-2 F.P., the rest grassland.

now, #1: build fortresses along yore borers and fortify them. this will cause casualties in ANY army. #2: build a scrap navy. search for small, unihabited islands then build new cities on them. these islands are "last resort" retreat areas, so gain control of them quickly. #3: when u...

u realise that an army of immortals is following u. oops, 2701:

yeah, then they smear yore colony on alpha centari A/B, just like they did to san francisco in the book Starship Troopers. aliens would be nice, though. they would have antimatter bombs instead of nuclear (10 grams of antimatter=550 megaton nuke):nuke: God help us all. :worship: :jesus...