Recent content by patinthedesert

Yes there is always World Builder. Not exactly a peace settlement, I was responding to a warning about an impending revolt. I had taken 2 of the Viking cities some turns back. Now they were about to revolt. I accepted the offer was what happened I think. I didn't expect I would not be able to...

I'm new to RAND, and trying to get thru a first couple of plays on a scenario at Normal speed. In the game that is farther along (about AD1100), I have a problem with military units trapped in the Viking Civ's territory. I had attacked one of his larger cities but then got warnings about unhappy...

Wow. Thanks for all the research and notes. I know what you mean about the variations at the start. At war with Carthage or haven't met yet. At least once Rome already had Monarchy and the Wine could be used as soon as I could get workers on it. My results have been that between doing the...

Thanks for the response and your suggestions. Yes I had seen the Youtube video that you linked. I have not found it possible to get the same results as he showed. The amphibious attack on Carthage with praetorians with no casualties. Getting Egypt to trade 3 tech tree items for almost nothing...

Maybe there is nobody left.. Any comments at all about which civs to play on RFC? The original version or the updated version (1.987 or something like that)?

I ran a new try on the Rome civ on RFC. I reached success on the first 2 parts of the UHV goal. I went for taking Athens and Constantinople first, then rebuilt to take carthage. But it was not a clean run. I went to World Builder a couple of times. Because I have to do city attacks with legions...

i may be the last one to try Rhye's and Fall of Civilization. Recently downloaded and added the 'most recent' version of RFC for BTS. And tried the Rome version to be in something that looked familiar. And going for the conditions for the UHV win, ran into troubles right away. Found some advice...

100 hours or more for a CIV campaign? No that's not what I want. I have a few hours to play a couple days a week. So it would take a couple of months. That takes all the fun out of it. Use of the siege weapons. In all of the Civilization versions that I have played, there were 2 reasons to use...

Continuing my learning- Started my first session. Used a map RI-totestra to generate. I was looking for a standard size map, not large or huge. Picked the Romans - Augustus Ceasar to be familiar. After 3 hours play, still in Ancient age at default game speed. Apparently this mod is paced towards...

OK no problem. As I recall he was posting about Realism Invictus with screen captures. Just made a short jump and landed in a mud puddle! Is this where to post if I hit strategy issues or just figuring out what the mod is doing, or maybe other places?

OK. Brand new to trying Realism Invictus. Thanks to some Steam posts made by TheBirdman, I have downloaded and unzipped. But I see no install or directions. How to install it to Beyond the Sword? UPDATE: I figured it out. The download was a .exe file. I was used to downloads for mods being .zip...

I continued the mission but it is not going well. When I reached Steam power, I get no coal. It's on the far side of the Americans. I had a very short-lived deal to trade for coal, but it only lasted for 5 or 6 turns until the Sumerians declared war. I think they got bought into a military...

Nobody has luxuries any to trade according to the make-a-trade data boxes. These are rather smaller empires on a 'standard ' map pangea with 70% water.

Continued the game. Thanks to Lanzelot for the excellent tip. Best military units were cavalry, muskets and trebuchets. Mongols (1st on score list) declared war on me while I was trying to take America's capital. He got there just after I did. He had lots of keshiks his UU. Cavalry is stronger...

I had played it a bit more and just got to gunpowder. And a saltpeter appeared just one square outside of a city that could expand. So that's good, but muskets are poor for offense. Military Tradition, I just looked at Tech tree, only about 3 steps away. Yes Cavalry would be major improvement...