Recent content by Sentinali

This happened to me early in my civ3 career, I have turned off this victory condition ever since. Everybodies always furious with me in the game by the industrial age anyway, I can never make friends in Civ 3. My advice - Always turn diplomatic victory off, I do diplomacy GWB style ala M1A1...

I have never had a use for airfields, maybe I'm missing something but I like to have my place in a safe city or in a fleet of battleships off the coast with carriers. Nothing can swing a battle more than losing your bomber fleet to he enemy. Given my defensive tendacies I love civil defense. It...

or shoudl I say sticks Yes, you had better say "sticks" --Padma - Rosevelt (I think) had a philosophy, walk softly but carry a big stick. This is important in Civ3. If you look like a weakling the AI will pick on you. The key is to build alot of units (even if they are all spearman or warriors)...

The military alliance is a good thing now - keep it in place (unless you NEED a resource, after the inital build phase this is the only time to go to war with a neighbour). Unless the cities are going to be able to contribute to your empire (ie; within a lower corruption influance of a palace...

On the aspect of paying up I think that early on it is ALL about respect. In my opinion on Regeant level you can get it TWO ways: a) Bending Over for It - paying the money and techs and keeping quiet - what I have found here if that "if you give a man a fish, he will ask for another one...

First - the problem is your memory - the game will hang, for up to 1 minute on a 256K machine when you have multiple large civs. If you increase your memory you will not have a problem. I often start games on my laptop a 700mHz with 256 and I am forced to finish them on my desktop 800mHz with...

Unless you are placing with less than the max # of opponenets you are probably wanting to save yourself the production loss. I would form your capital where it is and get 4-5 other cities first. In the city you want as your capital make sure it has higher population than all the others. Click...

Okay, I love Civ, I have played it since the original and I am a big Sid fan, BUT the XP thing bites my butt. These are items that should have been included with the original release and now I have to play $40 (I live in Canada), for the expansion. I can live with a shoddy initial release IF...

In my last game on Monarch the Frenchies to the N and I (Egypt) had been very peaceful for the entire game. When I invaded they had a 210 stack of infantry waiting for me!

I thought about that, and it was probably the biggest tossup in the group. I would have to say that maybe you should be able to build both Infantry and Mech Inf. With Mech infantry having three movement and arty susceptibily and Infantry with 1 movement and no susceptable to lethal arty. I...

Okay maybe instead of a unit "tag" for susceptibility, you could go with a terrain modifier. ie; Chance of Last Hits being LETHAL Ocean/Sea/Coast 200% Desert/Floodplain 90% Grassland/Plain 75% Hills/Jungle/Mountains 5% Fortress/City 0% Fortified Troops would decrese this likelyhood...

When Civ 3 first came out many people said, why can't my artillary bombardment destroy units. Then Sid and Co. gave in and allowed a Mod of lethal artillary. Now other people are complaining that this goes too far. There are often two valid arguments; 1.) Bombardment almost never does the...

How did you convert Calvary to tanks without moding (ie; cheating?)