Recent content by Rowie007

I agree with this - if the enemy has a big stack outside your city which will obviously win, it can be a good idea to escape the units in it to another city. Otherwise he kills all your units, and you kill maybe a couple of siege. Plus the enemy may split his forces to defend the city he's...

I'm experimenting with different map sizes and settings to try and get a particular type of game going. What I want is to play with around 12 civs, spread across multiple continents where each civ gets enough space for around 6-8 good cities each (assuming an even distribution). I also want a...

Well it looks as though you found a clever way to win I would have never considered. My espionage is poor, something I need to work on. One game I captured an enemy city which was generating lots of espionage points and I managed the espionage well, but generally I don't get much benefit out...

Personally, I don't find spies very useful (corporations is another matter however). Not that the effects of the missions are of no benefit, but that the benefit rarely seems to be worth the cost of generating all those EPs instead of more research or gold. The AI sabotages my improvements...

OK, so I've had a bit of a look at your save. I'm not an expert by any means - I can beat Prince level now and are about to try Monarch; but I can offer some suggestions. 1. When fighting a two front war I often prefer to defend one and attack the other. Defend mainly by putting good units...

I liked the first on better. But that could be because my PC is a little old now, and Civ4Col runs very slowly on it. So I get bored waiting for my computer to keep up.

Thanks for that Dalgo. You're right, I was trying it next to an Indian settlement, or next to a European one but not at war yet. I only see the Bombard command when I'm next to the colony of a European power who I am at war with.

I've got my cannon next to a settlement, I can attack by moving on to it, but how do I bombard to reduce the defence bonus? I can't seem to see a button or command to do this, yet the game says that cannons can reduce settlement defences.

I started about 10 games just to test, and on the first turn opened the worldbuilder. On every one I was the southern most european power. So I doubt it's just a fluke of the random generator. I plan around this now, if I want to start on my own I head directly west on the first turn, if I...

I've started quite a few games by now (and some were to test this theory), and I always end up right in the south of the map. I'm running standard map generated games on a new world map. I've also got the patch 1.01f installed. Anyone else have this situation? While it doesn't stop me...

What does Alt-R do?

It happens on the Earth map. If I start a game on the Earth map at King level of difficulty - pick Russia as a country for example. If the Chinese are in the game, they will never build a settler or make a second city. They build military units and send them all the way over to bother me...

I like to play the default earth map, usually on King level, and it seems that some civilisations never grow beyond their first city. I suspect their AI tells them not to build settlers until they get to a certain population and their starting location will never grow that big. Anyone else...