Recent content by Scratcher

I think when you grow from pop 6 to 7 and 12 to 13 you have to fill the whole food box again before you get the granary effect. The picture shows a pop of 8. Did the town grow from 6 to 7 and then you added a worker? Scratcher

Thank you, some very good replies and lots of things to change for my next attempt. I appreciate your time. I was really surprised about the 60% archipelago maps being better - I just assumed that this map type would take longer to conquer the 65% territory and therefore would give a lower...

A few more questions.... To keep or raze? I pretty much razed all captured cities to resettle with my own settlers. This removed the risk of cultural flips, and gave me a large work force of slave labour. Was this advisable? When is the best time to trigger the GA? With Cossacks I had a mid to...

Milking a game is really not my play style. In fact, in nearly 2 decades of playing Civ3 I have only ever attempted one milked game, on a standard map size, for my HOF ranking. With this lockdown I decided to attempt a huge map, Emperor level and after 2 months of playing I have fallen short of...

I am playing at Emperor level, I am at 1430ad and I have had 65% territory for quite a while now (i don't have any utilities for number of tiles). In the last few turns all flat territory is fully chopped, jungles and marsh cleared, irrigated and railed.Workers are now putting roads on hills and...

I'm using the isolation time to play a huge histograph game. It will take me months to complete. Currently each turn takes about 2 hours to complete. Scratcher

In my current game, C3C, huge, Emperor level, with Russia, I have so far generated 22 Military Great Leaders by 1275 AD. Scratcher

Yes, you're right, the Conquest Cossack is better than the Vanilla / PTW Cossack - but regardless of the game version - the Cavalry / Cossack / Siphia units are one of the most powerful attacking units in the game. What is there not to like about them? Scratcher

I'm sorry, I can't agree with you. The Russian Cossack is an awesome unit..... beeline to Military Tradition, upgrade all your horses / knights to Cossacks which have 3 movement, with repeat attack, generatating lots of elite units, which in turn generates lots of MGLs. This gives you many...

I agree with Lanzelot, I bought Civ 3 through Steam but had many problems, and I couldn't get the Vanilla and PTW formats to run. I now run my Civ 3 conquests CD installation with no-cd patches and all versions runs perfectly.... now all I miss is my CivAssist ....

Thanks guys... the rename video solution worked..... Spaceship victory after 141 hours... 1495AD with Russia.

I need some help. I have spent the last 2 months playing a huge demi-god map for a space ship victory. When the last SS part is built I get to the SS page with the Launch button - but when pressed the game freezes. I can't get past this screen to save the gave 1 turn after victory. Can anyone...

Okay, fair enough.

Pangur Ban, Are you going to set up the leagues again for this year? Scratcher

Domination victory 780ad Firaxis 5626 Jason 10322 I researched as quickly as possible for navigation, then Chivalry (for knights), then Military Tradition( for cavs). Then research was set to 0% and research was done by scientists. At the end of the game I was 2 turns from entering the IA...