Recent content by Neo Guderian

Yes, It is truly EVIL! I have used this a few times in multiplayer games (not tiny quick games however) to the angst of my oponent. It is rare to gift the city to a distant enemy. I have done this only once I believe and that was because I was very isolated. When I finally discovered the...

Oh and I almost forgot. Silly me, this is one of the most important factors about stealing from vassals. Your spies in their territories only get busted for failing spy missions, but not for being in their territory. =).

I tend to warmonger with this economic strategy on emperor. My capitol is a cottages commerce/espionage engine and every other city is geared towards production. The early game consists of moderate expansion but no warfare, unless defensive in nature. I build the GW, and head to...

Stay away from this mod because it is worse than crack and can have serious effects on your health! I have recently been playing alot of FF2 (in fact, thats all ive been doing except when not at work). So a few days ago I started having fainting 'spells'. I went to the dr today where I...

A new book entry has been added: Zero Percent Science

Production Economy. Pour all your hammers into research. This is especially powerful lategame with the advent of Mining INC.

Just like Stalin said, " Violence solves every problem. No man, no problem." I tend to mop the floor with neighbors who won't behave when they become 'problems'.

if getting Mathematics in time is a problem, try an oracle slingshot by researching writing at the same time or before the turn you complete the oracle. Then select math as your free tech. Also, play an industrius leader and try chopping/whipping it as quickly as possible. Frankly, the...

Augustus ftw! He is the closest you can get to IND/Phil with his UB. Praets are soo preeety too..

If you play shaka, you can have impis escort your HA's. Since Shaka is Aggressive, your Impis can get Shock from the ikhanda and they have 2 movement. This means you dont have to worry about enemy spears counter attacking your HA' Stack. Furthermore, if you give your HA' flanking 1 and 2...

In the case where you have a highly defensible piece of terrain next to a city, you should spare a few units and occupy it. The enemy stack will either A) sacrifice alot of their units taking that forested hill fort held by 3 longbows, or B) (and even better) they will move onto open ground...

Horse archers are one of my favorite rush tactics with the changes in BtS. They have a high survivability (with flanking 2) and will allow to rapidly decimate an enemy. When I use the HA rush, I build 4 to 5 cities and churn out HA's exculsively until the war is over. My last sp game I...

I never understood why marines have this useless bonus. Artillery are always going to be the last in the stack to defend and marines would simply destroy arty even without the bonus. Besides, as mentioned above, flanking makes this bonus even more redundant.

I find that Cyrus and William van Orange are pretty fair on trades

if i couldnt post from work, i would just have to play at work. Posting holds me over because I actually play on my company laptop. I have even loaded BtS up a few times to check out civlopedia or show a coworker my latest game. Reading the forums helps to clear my mind when I get coders...