Recent content by scothed

As the title states, I can only win on Prince playing as either Vicky or Lizzy... I can easily get a domination, cultural or diplomatic victory with either of these two leaders. However, playing as the Dutch, or Pericles, or either Roman leader I've not been able to win any type of victory...

Agree with the comments on seige above. Also, something I've only managed to do a couple of times is to build lots of nukes and load them on subs and then get the UN non-proliferation treaty signed. I then park my subs off the coast of my next target(s) and pound them! I managed to get...

I regularly have SOD's in excess of 50 units so yeah... building that many units isn't a problem in Civ4. Also, I never played Civ3; it was the only one I missed in the series. I've never had that type of even in Civ4 though. Iron should be IMO. Swords and Axes get broken in combat and...

I think there are several ways this problem can be dealt with. The first thing I would do would be to introduce a movement penalty for SOD's the bigger they get; as someone else already suggested. The second thing would be to introduce more "random events" such as breakouts of illness...

Ah. Yes. You might very well be right there! My bad!

You can terminate a Vassal agreement. Just liberate enough of their cities to get their population and land above the 50% threshold.

From what I understand about real life war you can't really destroy a whole army with air power because they can dig in. I mean, you can kill many many troops and in Civ terms weakening a unit is sort of like what this represents. However, I do think that with air power you should be able...

I'm 25 and been playing since Civ II. I was converted from RTS games such as C&C Red Alert. My girlfriend can't stand the game though haha!

There is a lot of truth in the idea that the best defence is a good attack. In games where I meet an AI early on, I've started hitting the nearest one hard and trying to take them out. Normally you can wipe out a civ early doors and find yourself with some nice well developed cities to boost...

I used to take notes about the game but that was when I would play for an hour or so every now and again. Nowadays I only play Civ when I have a big chunk of time between research reports so I tend to be able to have a good 8-10 hour game in one sitting. So I don't really have to remind myself...

I moved up to prince recently and in my first game at that level I won a cultural victory. I did this by getting the tech to get machine guns because I knew I would not be fighting many offensive wars. Once I had that, I bumped culture to 100% and had my non culture cities dedicated to gold or...

To be honest I think there would have to be some sort of chance of the great people escaping. For example, when you capture a city with settled great people each of them could have a chance of escaping to another city of that nation. Also, some of them could be 'killed' in the chaos of...

I have a pin-board above my desk where my laptop sits. Above it I have a to-do list of all the different deadlines I have for uni. You just have to learn to live a balanced life; it comes with experience. I find that my Civ playing is much more enjoyable when I look up at that list and see...

Well since I posted this thread I've actually used espionage a bit in my last game, but it came about out of necessity. I had launched an amphibious invasion and in the resulting peace treaty trapped my army (d'oh!). As I tried to get them back to my continent I was getting worried about the...

I'm a long time player of Civ and BTS and I'm now pretty comfortable on Noble and am thinking of moving up a level. However, I have never really used the espionage aspect of the game at all. I've used a couple of spies here and there to explore the map, but I hardly ever take part in espionage...