Recent content by smitsk00

That was an infuriating game. Hinduism dominating but not spreading to me for millennia. Over and over again.

Never having gotten a Diety win without religious cheese, the handicaps on this one made me want to give it a try. Settled in place and decided 2 turn later that had been a bad idea and wasted the island. Built archers to make safe the island. Then my workboat found the island to west and...

"When can you use the Spread Culture mission? This also causes confusion because you can only use it in cities that are in range of the culture from another of your cities. On border areas this means that you need to get border pops such that you are putting culture into the city tile of the...

Thanks! It continued to not offer the mission through 10 or so turns in 2 of the gifted cities, but it allowed in the first. Do I need to build a certain amount of culture buildings before gifting? I bombed each city, then gifted, then moved in with spies. I should have had enough...

First time trying one of these. Are there restrictions that control whether or not the spread culture option appears in the spy action menu? I culture bombed and gifted 3 cities, but could only perform spread culture in 1 of them. Also, would you not need to take back these cities before they...

t177 on a rough run through running a SSE + cottages and with minimal micro . This can be done a lot faster.

Given the delay I've seen on the AI settling the islands, I'll give it a shot. I don't play PAs often and had been trying to get them via defensive pacts, not wars. I run two Warriors in my capital for so long on OCC, it had not occurred to me to DOW on DeGaulle early. Thanks!

1915 on Big and Small against Fred, Wang, Lincoln, Washington, Roose, Darius, HC, DeGaulle. 3 Gold on the start. Need to make sure that the AI you get the PA with has Astro early enough to expand and be able to gift you lots of Sushi/Mining resources.

Settled in place. Popped Mysticism. Teched Fishing, BW, Masonry and then went for CS slingshot with a detour for the Wheel which probably lost me the Oracle. :mad: Only settled 4 cities so far. 2nd 1S of the northern Mt.to include the Bronze, 3rd 1N of the horses, 4th 1S of the eastern Mt...

Also had problems getting an appropriate PA, so I punked out and played Boreal. Easy win, but a little slow: 1987.

+1 Yes and yes and yes

I have always enjoyed having to adjust my early game to non-ancient starts and have often done these first. In a 10 game challenge, I have always wanted a chance to do 2-3 non ancient starts as they are rarely used in gauntlets. Plus - it makes Diety players who win or lose in the first 30-80...

Victory Condition - Culture Difficulty - Noble Starting Era - Renaissance Map Size - Standard Map Type - Medium and Small Speed - Quick Civ - Inca Opponents - any Required Options - Permanent Alliances, OCC Illegal Options - none Victory Condition - Space Difficulty - Prince Starting Era -...

Just got a 1836 finish wihout copper or stone early on. I have started a number of these, and having map sides/corners, mountains and lakes to bottneck your spawn busters seems to be the most important aspect to the start (building 5 archers instead of 8-9 gets cities and cottages and Artists...

at the end of the day, this about huts...and NOOOOOO whammies!