Recent content by Raffer

I took over the entire French civilization in one turn, which was 21 cities large. I had about 80 modern armour, 60 Artillery and some 35 leftover Cossacs. It was bliss, and a near miss too. Right of passage abuse can be so lovely. And no one really cared about it. My rep was only slightly...

I never have pollution probs. I always have about 25 workers running about, and I don't bother killing them off when everything's railed up... And they keep pollution under control. I don't think holding back hospitals has any point to it... those cities need to grow! Even if they generate...

Reading the forum and the war academy boosted my playing skills overnight, going from a shabby warlord to a decent Monarch... Emperor still takes getting used to... brrrr. Usually I use the zero research in the beginning, but I found that a little research is still not bad. Persuing some far...

Someone else has probably reported this before me, but after reading through a great many threads I couldn't find anything so... When you give the AI money in a lump sum and ask for money per turn, it will generally agree if your trade relations are good and it has the money per turn...

As a rule, I try playing at Sid level before starting a new game in my current difficulty setting ; Regent. After playing -And dying- at Sid level, everything else seems to go so much smoother. But I can't even survive past 290BC on Sid. Not even a chance. I expand all I can, which gets me up...