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I agree. Creative means cheap libraries and theaters at 1/2 cost. Once I have drama in hand I pop a theater in every newly conquered city. It's the cheapest building for culture and the strongest building for happiness. I always prioritize drama when warmongering and creative makes this...

Bulbing: 1 GS and Physics Not bulbing: 1 GS Bulbing dominates not bulbing for all possible uses of 1 GS.

1700s right now. I have Cossacks, rifles and grenadiers.

I was hoping he would say it was all part of a diabolical scheme to screw up China's diplomacy with his neighbors. Get him to convert, then convert back to Hinduism and watch the whole world turn against him. :goodjob:

I found out (the hard way)that settling GSs in the capitol means that you are married to bureaucracy. I had the science slider set at 20% and could keep up in techs with everyone else. Thanks to a weak naval invasion from Mehmed I decided to switch to Police State, Nationhood and...

2 settled and 2 from GL. I popped an early GE from Pyramids and built the GL right after Lit.

I'm playing as Peter right now on Monarch. I'm running Caste System, Representation and Pacifism (kinda funny though - I just crushed Isabella and took her Jewish Holy City). Moscow is running 7-8 scientists specialist plus 2 - 3 settled scientists and have built an academy. I am about...

Thanks. It's nice to learn something new everyday. :lol:

Spread your religion to all/most of their cities. Try to increase diplomatic bonuses with China until you reach "Pleased". Ideas for this include: * adopting China's favorite civic (look it up in the Civopedia in-game under leaders) * going to war allied with China when they declare or...

Sorry to be so dense but ... Why the reference to railroads? RRs don't boost any improvement's output.

It turned out that I did manage to convert him to Hinduism but his empire grew to be the second largest next to mine (Saladin). I was going for a diplomatic victory, so he was my rival. All those diplomatic bonuses went to waste. Not to fear though - Hannibal went to war with Victoria, I...

I cannot figure out where to build this wonder. GP farm is not usually a good idea as that city is either also a high gold city (Wall Street) or research hub (Oxford). Military production city might seem like a good idea paired with Heroic Epic but I prefer Ironworks there for late game...

I was on the same continent as Hannibal and I adopted free markets for the diplomatic bonus. I got all the way up to pleased with him even though we had different religions due to the "you have chosen your civics wisely" bonus but then was surprised when late game he switched to...

I like to put ironworks in a city that can produce the Space Elevator (within 30 degrees of the equator) . But I cannot figure out how to tell for sure what the latitude of that city is before plunking down Ironwork. Sure, if the city is/was surrounded by jungles then obviously it is close...

Thanks for your response. Here is another thread on this topic: Prince Strategies Fail on Monarch http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=210040 I think this is a common but very difficult problem. Going from Prince to Monarch is just brutal.