Recent content by Selmak

I think that it would make a lot of sense to always send a few anti-mounted units along with an invasion stack. The cost of several expendable spearmen or pikemen is nothing compared to the cost of losing an entire stack of mounted units. Obviously there is always the possibility that those...

You can put the audio file you want to use in My Games\Beyond the Sword\CustomAssets\sounds\soundtrack if you always want to use it when Civ 4 loads. Take a copy of the AudioDefines.xml from your game folder and drop it in My Games\Beyond the Sword\CustomAssests\xml\audio - if you open it up...

Your spearmen and pikemen don't attack mounted units because usually, the defender has a unit that defends better. In order to make use of the 100% vs mounted units ability of these two units, you must damage the other defenders badly enough that the mounted unit is picked to defend. However...

I'm in a late game, there are railroads everywhere on this contienent that I was sharing with two other civs. Anyway, one of them decided to settle on the other side of the continent from where most of their land is. And without fail, when they finally have the ability to railroad around that...

I tend to decide on capturing or razing based on how far the city is from the rest of my empire. Then I send the captured population (workers) back to safety with an escort. Although I have to be careful about integrating foreign nationals into my cities, especially when I'm still at war with...

I tend to use bombers to wipe out connecting roads. Because I have a speed disadvantage moving over enemy terrain, it's nice to even things up by forcing his units to move on the few roads I have left him, or forcing him to move over rough terrain. That'll slow down reinforcements and make...