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    Funny Screenshots: Part Deux

    GP farm, if you can defend it... :lol:
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    Funny Screenshots: Part Deux

    The AI builds the Great Wall even when it is a No Barbs game. :lol:
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    What is the best tech grab you ever got with the Oracle?

    You need marble and are either an Industrious or start with Mysticism, IMO.
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    Accurate Earth Map (132 x 64)

    I really like this map because of the fact that it is an equal area projection. I'm so sick of Earth maps full of unproductive Canadian and Russian tundra.
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    What is the best tech grab you ever got with the Oracle?

    In a Rhye's and Fall game as India a while back I Oracle'd Theology when I was still in the Bronze Age! :D
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    What European country is the closest to winning today ?

    I think Italy has a Culture Victory in the bag. Rome, Florence, and Venice are at Legendary culture.
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    The best of all possible starts?

    I once had a start with 4 gold, 2 incense, a wheat, and a cow. I was Mali. KA-CHING!!!
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    Tips for extreme beginners

    1. BUILD SIEGE UNITS!!! A city's culture gives it defensive bonuses, the more culture the bigger the bonus (and the longer it takes to restore order in a city after you capture it), add a city wall and defensive units with City Garrison promotions and you got a tough nut to crack. The % shown on...
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    Who does all the languages in Civ 4?

    It sounds like Classical Latin to me.
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    Who does all the languages in Civ 4?

    I noticed the German units saying "OK", too, and I laughed. :lol:
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    Civ 4 Rants Thread

    *Insert Civ2 references to Phalanxes beating battleships...* :lol:
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    Most important technologies from history.

    One invention that does not get mentioned enough is the heavy "moldboard" plow that could turn over the soil, unlike the simpler ard, or scratch plow. This allowed much more of the Northern European Plain to be farmed. Holy crap, those guys were hardcore!
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    Who does all the languages in Civ 4?

    Seriously. They did Sumerian and Akkadian, but they couldn't do a language that is still used as a liturgical language by Egyptian Christians and still had native speakers as recently as a few decades ago?
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    The worker automation AI ticks me off.

    They do? OMG, I've had Civ4 since it came out and I never knew that! :hammer2: :lol: I only automate hooking up my resources, and only after my empire has gotten large.
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    Revelation: The Random Globe

    HOLY SH**!!! I never realized that! :eek: *Mind Blown*
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