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383. Q: What did (insert warmonger's name) say when they captured Thebes? A: How wonder full.

All of your responses are appreciated. I have never really been an early warmonger, so we shall see. Perhaps I can try for more cultural victories. The spaceship does get rather boring.

I had taken a hiatus from playing CiV for over a year and recently got back into it. I was finally getting used to GnK when I had stopped. Now I have the option of getting BNW. Since most of the threads deal with BNW, I've been able to read about its features. It's a stupid question, but...

Spies are replaced after a certain number of turns. The same is true for your own spies.

All I can say is, "The Force is strong with this one."

I do it just to add another negative diplomacy hit with a civ I'm trying to goad into a DoW so I can not get hit with warmonger.

The last time I saw Monty declare that he was afraid of me was after I handed him his butt after he declared war on me. I had 3 cities, which were defended by 1 warrior, archers which were upgraded to CB and some African Forest Elephants. After wiping out most of his army, we made peace and he...

There is also the old tactic of blocking the other civ. I'm playing a game as Polynesia, and Carthage was just to the SE of me. There was also a lux and some strategics I wanted, so I plopped my city a little close to her and that was all she wrote. She didn't expand to her west as there...

Hiawatha is quite annoying when you are at war with him. He is like Alexander, demanding all of your gold, GPT, all of your lux and a city to make peace after he never crossed your borders and you killed any of his units that got too close. I went through this for a good 100 turn period. He...

Started a game yesterday as Japan on King on the Earth map, starting in NE Africa. My capitol was founded on the river with 4 citrus, and 3 sugar nearby (2 of each within my starting borders), just a little south was some spice and 2 wine with a nearby mountain for my 2nd city, and city 3 got a...

When I played vanilla, I found my navy did about 40% of my world conquering while playing as England. With every ship being able to attack at range, it made sacking cities easy. It has taken me a bit to get used to melee only ships, but they are quite deadly with enough of them, and all ships...

Perhaps I should have said to ignore the cultural states late in the game. I agree that the Culturals are nice to have and you can keep them for a while, but at some point later in the game, they become quite coveted for allies and your money is better spent elsewhere. I found that being...

Yeah, lots and lots of gold helps. In the first game I won DV, France (who was the strongest in the game) starting buying up my CS allies. On my last turn before the UN vote, I bought up as many CS as I could that they didn't have since they had insane influence over them. It also helps you...

Early war is great if you are prepared. I had started a new game and skipped wonder building and focused on getting archers out (Carthage/Prince/Terra, ended up somewhere in the Russia landmass). I got 3 cities into play, with an archer for each, my starting warrior and an AFE under...

Another new member here. Got started with Civ Revolution, then played Civ IV and now Civ V. I've already picked up some good ideas here.