Recent content by RogerN

Not only does Civ involve a larger number of pieces then chess, but each player can also choose to move *all* of their units on *every* turn. That's an insane number of permutations compared to a game like chess. If I've got 10 units and each unit could potentially move to 10 different...

Funny story... in my first game of Civ V I totally missed the fact that social policy cost increases as you build more cities. I was going for a Cultural victory, but my empire was fairly large - social policies were ridiculously expensive. My solution? Build more cities to generate culture...

There are two different quests to kill barbarians: 1) If a city state is being "plagued by barbarians" then you can gain influence by killing barbarian units which are within 1 tile of the city-state's borders. If the barbarian is more than 1 tile away then you get nothing. I *think* you...

My evidence is only anecdotal, but in my most recent Iroquois game I started near a large wooded area. Eventually had at least 8 forest tiles, with lumber mills, being worked by my capital with the Long House building. It was quite a production power house.

As bronzeager said, it's hard to tell what the source of your happiness/gold problems are without more specific information. Here are a few tips anyway: * It's possible that you expanded too quickly for the amount of culture that you were generating. Lots of cities = more expensive social...

There are a few reasons why I've basically stopped building academies: 1) The vast majority of my techs tend to come from RAs. In my last game I had 6-7 RAs in place for the majority of the game. That averages out to a new tech every 5 turns or so. Unless you've pumping out an astonishing...

Even when I'm warmongering I rarely go for Honor. I find that if I don't take advantage of early growth/economy bonuses from Tradition or Liberty then I fall behind in science too quickly. And with Liberty/Tradition you can still choose to leverage your increased growth toward building a...

I'm currently playing a game as the English, and the following chain of events occurred: * I start building a scout at turn 1, as I frequently do. * Scout finishes, finds some goody huts. * One of the goody huts equips the scout with better weapons. Yay, now he's an archer! * Fast-forward...