Recent content by Soupturtle

Are you sure? I'm sure you're a better player than I am, but that would leave it with a plains cow in the second ring as its only food source - there wouldn't even be the possibility of grassland farms until civil service. And if I wait until then to settle it it will probably be gone, I'd...

Thanks for all the advice so far. I'm now thinking to stick with 1 and 2 as I have them (or maybe move 2 1W, although I don't like settling on riverside grassland), then try to get city #3 by the double seafood in the northwest. Then possibly my marked site 3, fish + ivory in the east, and...

I want to win my first proper game on immortal, and I'm looking for some advice on initial city placement. Unless the game gives me a great start with lots of obvious resource taking city spots, I tend to struggle with city placement a lot, so I would really like some advice. I'm playing...

My game is won. Immortal, epic, aggressive AI, conquest in 1915 AD. I was pretty pleased with my early game, but the conquest wasn't terribly efficient - a better player could have this done much sooner. In the end, the AI killed 3 civs quite early in the game (france, india & greece), I killed...

That's good news for my game at least. Thanks again for the quick answer!

Thanks for the quick answer. It's a shame it's not the answer I was hoping for. I guess I'll just try to destroy the master fast enough that the vassals won't be afraid of him anymore before they're vassaled by someone else. edit: A minor related question: I notice that in the Civ Illustrated...

I'm sorry if this question has been answered somewhere already - I didn't manage to find it. I'm wondering whether war success (as in the points you accumulate to enable capitulation) is conserved if you negotiate a cease fire, (the one you can break immediately, so not a proper peace deal)...

The Chinese were doing ok when I met them (though not as well as the Arabians), until I bribed them to attack the Persians. They were about similar in score and the Chinese had one peaces vassal (Japan) while Persia had two (Russia and Mongolia), so I thought it would be a great away to keep...

My immortal game is now at 1810. I decided to forego the daring naval invasion on Mecca in favor of a more traditional gradual romp through Europe. I figured that the production power of Europe would help a lot in the end, and that I didn't want to split my hammers too much between naval and...

I'm also not sure where a shrine, or what Monty gets up to, would come into my strategy. I didn't get a religion until I met the new world (I would have liked Monty to get one, but he didn't), and Monty has been pretty irrelevant. I got no more than one or two technologies from him in trade, and...

Burn Mecca? An interesting thought. By the time I could take Mecca conventionally I'll probably be winning anyway and not in need of any more gold, so it's probably not a bad strategic move at all to take it out early without trying to keep it. But the problem is that it's more than five tiles...

My game on immortal has been going slowly, as I haven't had much time to play. Today, I started my conquest, in about 1740, by eliminating Elizabeth, taking the English main island and Iceland (Ireland is German). I'm tech leader, although Saladin has artillery and rocketry on me, but I have...

I was settling and fog busting as quickly as possible. But there's no way to bust all the fog anyway, so you'll still do plenty of fighting. I never got my quechuas promoted too far, as on immortal you get spears/axes showing up quite quickly. But I do have a woodsman 3 axe around somewhere that...

I hadn't made any screenshots so far, but now that you ask, I've made a few. Two of my empire (there is one other city further to the south), and the relevant part of the tech screen (Cyrus is in the exact same tech position as Genghis, weirdly, all others are a bit further back). Annoyingly...

I'll be really interested to see his expansion and tech strategy on deity. I think my immortal game would be winnable by space race from where I'm now by beelining the internet, but conquest is probably going to be a stretch.