Recent content by Shadeseraph

The AI is, at least, capable of rushing the player quite reasonably. Turn 25 in an inmortal game, I had 7 mongol warriors and 2 slingers at the doors of my city. I barely had time to build a cree scout, a worker, a settler and a slinger (in that order) and settle my second city nearby by that...

Played a game on immortal yesterday. Won by Scientific victory, but did my fair share of warmongering, and I didn't do any razing (hard to overcome the warmongering penalty for razing in Immortal+). Also played a quick emperor game with Scythians where I went for early conquest victory. TBH...

stone is fairly common, and one of the better sources of faith through Stone Circles, at least in my experience. I quite like it.

I've had this happen to me a couple times. Usually he had a decent army (I mean, roughly 6 to 8 units to my 2) but a barb encampent found the AI's cities and threw wave after wave of horsemen and horse archers at them, grinding down their army into smithereens, while I myself had been growing an...

To each his own. I quite like the inherent mechanics of the game, particularly the part about "designing" the empire and correctly allocating and growing cities like a well greased machine. The only issue is that right now is lacking in the "challenge" department, but it's loads of fun to make...

I love being able to keep the other civs from settling/converting my lands while staying peaceful. I would hate any of those proposals - barring maybe the advance column.

Been playing on prince as Sumer. France AI expanded reasonably well and was more or less keeping up with my pace technology/culture/influence wise (he got to classical before me) - though he got fairly nice dirt and the torres de paine nearby. It had a small army (like 1 warrior and 3 slingers...