Recent content by Rubruk

well, civ4 is too realistic. You need to control the area around you.

Against a not well defended civ, an early axe rush with city raider axes works well. However, if the city is on a hill, that is a problem. Often, only one attack works well, after that, this civ spams archers. So take the capital first, everything else is not really useful. Later on, with...

Ok, everything goes together. Thats the reason why one has to think about economic consequences (courthouses!) and how to progress scientifically(libraries!), the very moment one sends the first some axeman against another civ. That makes Civ4 an interesting, fascinating game.

Yes. Enough Axeman, or later Catapults and Swordman with Cityraider promoyion help definitely.

Hi! There are two bounds for people WORKING in a city: unhealthy people can't work unhappy people don't want to work Let me first explain happyness: in the city screen there is a smiling golden face, that are reasons for happyness, the red, unhappy face shows reasons for unhappyness...

It is necessary to build up the economy before the war. Take a look on the city maintenance. Cities far away cost a lot. So have Code of Laws ready before the first large expansion. Furthermore, some economically strong core cities help. AND: it costs a lot of money if troops are on foreign...

Currently I am learning how to fight, to be warmonger. Why? To become a better builder. In that case I can afford having a smaller army and building much more buildings !!!

Sometimes you have a great artist. Send him in a city and let him create a great work, this gives 4000 culture immediately, and the city should be safe. Otherwise ... i dont know. It seems to be inevitable to loose some cities at the border.

Thats interesting. One cannot use the ocean squares of the enemy in a war. Conclusion: build culture in the own cities at coasts, this prevents such ugly situations, sign open borders with neighbors of civs you may want to attack.

My computer crashes when it tries to save the game. Does anyone have an idea why ????????

Very interesting. Last week I bougth CivIV, now I'm trying it out. Such articles and spreadsheets help a lot. Thanks :goodjob:

A backbone road network has priority for me. It connects ressources, allows fast troop movement and spreads my religion (if I have any).

This is similar how I played CIVI. If you have lets say tanks, a large number of rifleman and cavallery is tot a big problem. So building a small civ with all sorts of resources winning the tech race and a space victory is a nice idea. I think I try it (if I ever have time to play).

I have build Seoul at the starting position, then 3 warriors and one settler. My first warrior met a persian warrior. Then I decided to take the best land near to the persian borders, build some more towns, units and attack. So the second town was founded on the hill next to the cow NE of...

I never played emperor, but there are articles about massive use of artillery. (how to use artillery offensively / defensively) This seems to be so powerful that some people call it an exploit. http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=25078 This thread started in June, 2002, the...