Recent content by Sportyatuncw06

i just started back playing and downloaded the bug mod. The ai never used stacks before so they caught me by surprise when they hit me with a stack. In a coupe of games I have actually built 2 stacks and left a small stack to defend a city where I knew they ai would attack and flanked them with...

I concure that the Japanese are difficult to use. I think financial leaders are the best option on low difficulties and for new players. I also like organised. These two traits provide benefits throughout the game without and specialized strategies. The military traits are of little use in my...

I like both but I prefer peacemongering. Spiral Minuaret is usually worth a 10% slider boost to research and the both come in a time of the game when i am trying to build my economy. I don't like building a lot of units around this era because cannons/rifles/and calverys are around the corner...

thanks for all the tips. I used some of the strategies mentioned but I think I often jump from strategy to strategy and need to be more consistent. I don't use whipping very often and I will attack with siege and lose half of them so I need to conserve them better. So here is another question...

hey gang. I have been away from Civ Iv for a while and just came back. I was winning on prince pretty regularly and looking to move my game up when my comp crashed and I quit playing for about a year. Since I came back I downloaded the bug better ai mod and I am struggling on noble. Part of it...

I always forget to build lumbermills. I like to keep a few forest to help with health and usually all my workers are asleep in my cities finished with all improvements when I research replaceable parts. Lots of lost production, as I usually remember to send out my workers when I get railroads...

I never build wonders or found religions and on a tiny board Mana founded like 5 or 6 and built a ton of wonders so his culture was crushing me, especially the newly conquered Celtic cities. I am happy to report I won the game (only like my 6 win on monarch) for about 11k points. Not a...

I usually select random leader and try to mold the way I play around my leader. But I particulately like FIn and Org. Almost all the Fin leaders are good in my book. Some of my fav leaders are Darius, Mehemed, Surryiman, because they all have good trait combos and good UU and UB's

Thanks for the pointers. I think I focus to much on expansion and building and not enough on producing units early on. Should the capital be used as a unit pump? I started a game as the Julius Ceaser on a tiny map with the Boducia and Mana. I had a long war with Boducia and when I was about to...

Hey civ nation I need help conquering monarch. I took some time off from civ 4 and since I came back I have decided that dominating on noble isn't good enough anymore I want to advance my skill level. Looking at my high scores I have lots of prince games but only monarch on my HOF. Everyone says...

First off I am not an upper-level player, I do well on prince and but still struggle on monarch (even though I've seen many post that say if you can do well on prince monarch should be an easy transition). Although old this topic always gets a lot of response and I am always surprised by the...

I voted for the Dun. I think the guerrilla promotion is very situational and mostly useless and I don't like playing as Celts anyways, not to mention I don't build walls in 80% of my cities anyways. Shale plant is #2 worthless in my book. I almost never build coal plants due to pollution...

I always try to grow my cities as large as possible. The main problem with this is that is leads to an almost never ending cycle of building happy/health modifying buildings. I will lose track and end up in the industrial era with no army and a bunch of large cities, but very low production. So...

I basically cottage everything other than hills or resources that need mines/quarries/farms. I might build a watermill from time to time, and a farm if I need food to work other tiles. I typically almost never use windmills or workshops. AM I missing out here? I admit production is not my...

You could always give them techs and take their resources so they can't use them (say combustion and demand their oil). Later when you go to war you could let them have the resources back. It doesn't really make sense to do that but you could. If you ever get tired of a vassal, or just really...