Recent content by rysingsun

Darkeagle6, Awesome, you solved my problem! Actually my brother's problem. Well appreciated!

Well ok then, I like that much better! If it were me, I would just go to war. The ai fights wars so badly, so if you have plenty of offensive units, even though weaker than the ai, you can usually do quite well. You will pick up cities, which will increase your unit support. You will lose units...

tobacco and sugar aren't luxuries. All they provide is a gold or something.

I would be willing to bet that you build lots of defensive units. At higher difficulty levels it becomes increasingly impractical to do this, as the time to build is too long and the unit support is too great. So you build pretty much only offensive units and when you have enough for war you...

regarding the armies-being-attacked thing my experience is as follows: if the defender has twice the defense compared to the attacker's attack then the attacker leaves him alone. Example: A 4-defense veteran unit unfortified on a mountain will not be attacked by any 4-attack veteran, but he...

if you are inclined to rush that much culture may I recommend a modification to your method? Instead of whipping 8 guys, whip only 4 and draft the other 4. You will get 8 unhappiness all the same, but each 20 turns you will eliminate both a whipping unhappiness and a draft unhappiness. Thus...

Having the ai impale large numbers of troops on my stack of armies. Especially in island invasions. Conquering Pyramids very early in the game. And yes, that first leader is pretty awesome!

If i remember correctly this method works extremely well in vanilla. Or maybe I'm remembering unpatched vanilla. It's been a while. In C3C I use the technique a bit, I couldn't say I'm overly impressed by it.

partly i never got around to it, but i think mostly i shy away from anything less than five years old or even ten, because i hate sitting around waiting for the computer to do its thing. When i heard that IV would have 3-D rendering the first thing that came to my mind was "not on this...

sid games are for people who like a lot of stress. I've won one archipalago and one pangea. On archipelago you have the fun of island hopping, destroying hundreds of units per island with trebuchetes. It can be a very very slow process. I almost won a second sid island game, but I got the...

In your example of city E, I would ask why you did not settle other cities close enough to share in the food tiles. Your example demonstrates the wastefulness of not sharing. Food sharing is particularly necessary with floodplains, since there is practically no benefit to wasting, say, five...

I apologize if the question has been answered already. Can I give away cities and on the same turn declare war to get them back, take them with cavalry on the same turn, and a few turns later extract technology and gpt for peace? I'm talking about a distant neighbor here who is powerless to...

I am almost certain you are correct.

remember to rehome the settlers. you cannot starve a city without losing the supported settlers first. but it is a good method when cash permits.

you definitely have 5 unhappiness points from pop-rushing. it will go away by one per 20 turns and be gone in 100 turns if you stop tormenting these guys. it's tough having more pop-rush unhappingess than you have luxuries to counteract it. it pretty much will force you to use such a city as a...