Recent content by Paramos

Re:Breaking News AI unit changes nationality. In answer to your two questions: 1)It was someone else (in other words the AI) who split the Aztecs. 2)When you negotiate with a civ before it has any cities they show in the foreign minister window, but there is no city icon to the left of the...

More breaking news: Native Peoples destroy British Empire! Has anyone tried the Discovery Scenario from one of the original civ2 discs? As the English I felt I had started well, colonising the East coast of North America with three or four cities by 1520, so I declared war on the natives in...

Breaking News: AI unit changes nationality!! At Emperor level I'm on a huge continent with the French, and lucky enough to wipe them out in 10 turns. Predictably, the blue civ is restarted nearby, and four turns later I've found Berlin and destroyed it. Next turn one of my archer units finds...

It all depends on the difficulty level, surely? After six years of playing Civ2 I thought, when I found this site last week, that it would have little to teach me. Playing game after game at King Level (and getting bored with the ease of victory) I was convinced that GL and GW formed the path...

Some of these unpopular wonders I like to build simply because I hate letting the enemy civs get them. GL can be irritating in enemy hands, especially when some greedy diplomat steals your best tech... the civ with GL gets the tech automatically as well! Similarly, Darwin's Voyage can be...

King level: In capital:settler-settler-warrior(or phalanx)-settler-temple-(market place if time)-wonder Second city:warrior(or phalanx)-settler-settler-temple-wonder Other cities:warrior(or phalanx)-settler-settler-temple-caravans (to build wonders in first two cities) Each first settler...

The English, because you get more cities with "ethnic" names before you have to start renaming the likes of Naples, Cunaxa and Cremona. Celts are impossible with all those units based in cities beginning Car... I favour a science-led strategy and get most trouble from French or Germans...

These are the things I really look forward to in a game, and still enjoy after six years of playing: 1.The first time your engineer builds a road(it just appears by magic, the instant you click the mouse). 2.The fall of an enemy capital followed by the joyous news that "when the dust settles"...

Random maps, normal size, for reasons above. Is it my imagination, or are the larger areas of farmland usually in the Southern Hemisphere? (Maybe an entry for the "I've been playing Civ2 too much" thread!) I find continents better than islands. You can start to bash the AI before you get...