Recent content by otomik

one of James Burke's books goes into the history of chemistry, it's very conceivable that the Haber Bosch process could have been invented around 1850, there's also Guano as a sea resource and Nitre beds from pastures as a possibility. I mean really only a few gunpowder units would need those...

Honestly I don't much care, adding units and resources doesn't do much for the actual gameplay and could just make things more confusing unless they actually play differently. what strategic resources are we missing? Wolfram? Maybe we can add in resources that you don't need but can be used as...

somewhat, but it's really very good compared to the other stuff out there in pop culture, knowing that they've been sighted as such an educational game it would be nice if Firaxis would go back and correct some of the eggregious errors so I could get cannon earlier and not have my riflemen...

I end up using catapults really late in the game, I just use them to lower defenses, I don't do the suicide cats thing. I think other people have said the same, it does feel kind of weird, artillery and catapults don't charge the enemy so it's odd how they implemented that.

No dood, read the koran (you can beat your wife and divorce her by just saying "talaq" three times). At the time Muhammed was inspired women were not valued much at all and infanticide for baby girls common, but he did not preach equality and did not show equality toward women in the example of...

Juche or a general "the state is your God and the Dear Leader if your messiah" kind of religion

Contrary to Alex Haley's Roots, west african people sold each other into slavery, first to north african muslims (which is why many people in north africa have nubian blood) then to the spanish and english and americans. :cry: :whipped: the long lasting effects of rape in city raiding and...

well i live in columbus ohio, we use to have a large model of the santa maria i believe it was. I just have to point out that they weren't all caravels. Santa Maria = Carrack, larger, flagship, the galleon is similar Nina = Caravel, smaller shallow draft that can go up rivers, uncharted reefs...

I like to dribble my forces in actually, I was playing a one city challenge korea on the earth map against japan. I couldn't muster a large army quick enough so I built a defensive army of axes, spears and archers to repel tokugawas initial attacks, then I established dominance of the seas, and...

yeah, look at the wikipedia article, it's doubtful a large group of settlers could cross an ocean on it, not enough room for supplies.

the people are the heroes now behemoth pulls the peasants' plow the people are the heroes now behemoth pulls the peasants' plow the people are the heroes now behemoth pulls the peasants' plow when we look up the fields are white the fields are white with harvest in the morning light and...

Look at the world, it's obvious something went wrong a long time ago. The best thing a human soul can achieve is to get back into the edenic pre-fall relationship with god. If someone finds that late in life, that's not a life wasted at all because that was the entire point of their life. It's...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000005IYW/102-7894965-6839357?v=glance&n=5174 your google-fu is weak! I like this song a lot, it and Baba Yetu are real finds. reminded me a lot of philip glass, maybe the early stuff like Music With Changing Parts. Congrats to the CIV music team.

They saw their own agony in the vietnam struggle, is there any more worthy cause to go to war than that? I think they like america and the many other participants, have regrets but they don't regret helping the south vietnamese. In other news, can't wait for this Korean civ, I started up the...

word, but I could say that about most naval units.