Recent content by Snarkhunter

I've gone from early Med to Steam power on Monarch before. Didn't build the GL, but it was close at hand & I made sure I took that city last when I went a-warring. Kinda cool to see all the tech discovery messages (-: kk

The Vault of Time, perhaps? kk

Rails date to roughly 1830; iron was common enough then, though not massively so. Steel, however, was a semiprecious metal until about 1855 when the Bessemer process broke the bottleneck; within 20 years steel was as cheap as dirt. You are more or less correct about tanks; the lack of factory...

Depends on your definition of "short". 20 turn wars are easily doable in Republic & there are very few AI's I can't get a handle on in 20 turns. 40 turn active wars are not impossible. 100 turn passive wars are also possible (ie, war is declared but the AI can't really get to you, so there is...

Oddly enough, a OCC was my first culture win, with the Byzzies. . . . Game flew by with many turns taking only seconds. No workers to move, no military to move either--CivIII on hyperdrive (-: Edit: Actually, I don't recall if it was the Byzzies or not--I'm thinking it was someone else, got...

I wouldn't build either. I'd hold out for Leo's instead, generally. That would change if I were in a war & wanted to generate MGL's, clearly. Otherwise, cheap upgrades figure prominently in my military strategies & Leo's is more useful to me than granaries or 'raxes. Would also depend if I...

You actually saw an AI with armies that had more than 1 unit in them? Unreal! kk

I don't use them much, simply because they don't stay useful long & I don't do much warring in the AA. That doesn't mean I don't build them, though; I do & upgrade to trebs when the opportunity arrives. I also haven't played above emperor level. I find that cats work just fine against...

Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé! Happy Bastille Day! [party] (Coincidentally, my latest effort is as France--getting ready to take on the Americans (-: ) kk

They're a modern thing, too. How do you think LA gets most of its water? I do wish there was a canal technology, though. It was critically important in the Early Modern era in Europe & the US, & also in China for centuries. kk

I usually need them until the last few turns of the game, so I don't bother with the core infrastructure. In captured cities, I usually sell off all the infrastructure I can within a couple of turns, saving the rax for when the city is no longer front line. Occasionally I'll save a harbor, but...

If you triggered it through war, you might just need a boatload of spammed settlers to fill in what the AI you are attacking didn't. Though I don't think I'd do this myself. I usually have better things to build & don't care to relegate my number one producer to settler duty. I generally turn...

Hmmm. . . so it is. I'm so used to having the food symbols on, I didn't pick up on it. Ok, I never settle flood plains. kk

I think I'd displace 1 more tile to the ne to settle on desert, get a food break. It's going to be a core town, I don't mind it being a little loose. Were you thinking of giving it the wheat by the capital, though? kk

Yes, in an early Warlord game I played, as China. It was only about the 2nd time I even got the option to build it, IIRC. Boosted me to over 100 spt, as I recall. . . . kk