Recent content by Revenant

What version of Civ are you running? Vanilla, warlords or BTS? I'd recommend getting the patch from Civfanatics itself: http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=cat&id=12

The only time I see Barb spearmen are when I have chariots out to counter Barb axes.

I really wish people would call Civ V Civ V instead of CiV, It's much easier to read that way. Having said that and owning both games, I would recommend holding off on V for a while, it's just takes so long to play a game, even with a pretty good PC that you could easily play two or three...

It mostly depends on the attack and defense and health of all the units involved. The easiest way to check this is by checking the notification logs and looking at the combat page, unfortunately this is only possible after combat. (I didn't know this existed for such a long time, it's the button...

The BUG mod is the best. It will change your (Civ 4) life. It really does change how you play the game. It's hard to imagine if you haven't used it, but for me it essentially allowed me to move up a difficulty level without changing how I play the game. If this doesn't help anyone directly, at...

These events happened to me quite some time ago, but they were so bad I think they bear mentioning again... I invaded Babylon which had lots of nice coastal cities using a big stack of carriers, fighters, destroyers, battleships, transports, marines, infantry and tanks. About 100 units total...

The only way I've succesfully stopped a strike was: "Are you sure you want to quit?" YES!! Damn it, really fast expansion and no luxury resources does not work very well..

Me and my brother in a co-op game got hemmed in on both sides by enemies. And had Shaka/Gandhi as one opposing team. We won that game via Space, having noticed that Gandhi was about 10 turns from cultural victory. It would have taken us 20 turns to win via space so we spammed spies and espionage...

I'm not sure that's better.

I think this is the reason most people don't like it. It's very easy to abuse. Beeline to divine right, build in a religion most people don't have and send 1 missionary to each civ. And you win! That and the other options provided by the AP (declare war on X, reassign city to X, stop trading...

Leaders like Joao, Mansa Musa, Huayna Capac and Zara Yaqob can be deadly in most games. Gilgamesh is definitely another to look out for. His traits may not seem great, but he somehow manages to do pretty well for himself.

Generally it's easier to let someone else found religions and spread them to you while you build up your own infrastructure. Founding your own religion can be appealing, but it's usually far more beneficial to let someone else do it and see how everyone is doing religion wise. It's never...

While the tutorial is somewhat of a help to a new player, some of the things it teaches are questionable. In particular, where it tells you to build a second city is probably the absolute worst place possible on that map. Apart from that, it does a decent job of telling you the basics. Just...

Until Civ V speeds up gameplay I will probably stick to IV. I've played the first game of IV in about a year tonight and I have to say I'm having far more fun than I ever had with V. I'm sure it's partly because I know what I'm doing at all times, having played IV so much, and watched TMIT's...

The main reason he is so bad is that he won't trade anything (I think) unless he's pleased. Which is very hard to do without trading. Vicious circle and all that. The lack of economic traits is also a serious downer on top of that.