Recent content by rgbender62

I would love to play you sometime. My experience has been that Chariot centered armies beat Axemen centered armies almost everytime. A lot of this has to do with mobility. You can use Chariots to destroy your opponents Copper mine and suddenly he cannot build any more Axemen. Secondly, Chariots...

I'm fascinated by the way all of you just blithely say "oh I expand to 4 or 5 cities". When I play on Prince Level unless the available ground is large (ie low sea level, lakes scenario, etc) or I am isolated (which has it's own set of issues) the AI's are ruthless bastards who consistently...

OK, I can win most of the time at Monarch level on the Lakes, Panagea, and Continents scenarios with one major exception that is driving me crazy. The exception is what I like to call the isolation scenario. It's Continents where you wind up on an isolated continent with no neighbors and no...

For those of you who think spies are worthless it only takes one game where you are on the receiving end of what biratets is describing. Another civ with spies in your terrritory and money to burn. They will relentlessly go after your oil and as biratets notes it's pretty darn tough to stop...

Re Theocracy: There is basically no reason to prevent the spread of someone else's religion in your civilization Wrong, if you spread your religion into his civ you will realize that every city you hit with a missionary you can now see into just like you had a spy there. Every time one of the...

You guys are real pacifist types. Any red blooded war monger type will tell you the resource you must have first is horses. Get horses before your neighbors and you will have chariots. There is a reason they were the worlds first terror weapon. With chariots you have mobility and striking power...

I agree with bobrath that it is a subtle flaw in the game. It turns going to war with another Civ from a sparring match into an all or nothing affair. There should be some provision that a city as least controls the area directly around it. All too often it is exactly as bobrath describes; you...

Since I first posted, I have played 2 half games and 2 complete games out at Prince level (sleep, who needs sleep). Both of the finished games were Space Race victories. The crucial difference between these games and my earlier games was the effective use of cottages. I already had the...

What I want to know is how you keep enough of the things alive to be so useful. I love the guy who says "you very rarely lose them". Every game I have played at Prince Level (8 so far) the damn things get completely chewed up by enemy fighters. The AI's don't seem to build bombers much but boy...

MI do not get collateral damage! Trying to use MI to take a city is an absolute disaster. The only way to take a city which has MI defenders is with Tanks and Artillery. You will lose the first few units that attack but that collateral damage really takes hold and then the MI start falling. If...

I kick ass on Noble level (won 5 out of 5 games: 3 via Space Race, 2 via Domination) but when I shift to Prince level I generally get my ass kicked! Out of the 8 Prince level games I have played I have only won 3 and all of these have been on points (Time victories). The game seems to make a...

I've been following this thread with some interest because my experience has been similar. I kick ass on Noble level (won 5 out of 5 games: 3 via Space Race, 2 via Domination) but when I shift to Prince level I generally get my ass kicked! Out of the 8 Prince level games I have played I have...