Recent content by Squire 2

Regent, Celts, small map, default world, five civs, regicide Started on a small island with only one luxury and no iron or horses. Expanded to a similarly sized island with no resources or luxuries and then a couple of tiny islands. The French and Hittites took out their rivals so both have...

French Commercial and industrious are great for my play style (mostly builder), and I love a defensive UU. If I can make musketeers when I get gunpowder then I won't bother building riflemen with nationalism, I'll just focus on factories and hospitals and wait until replaceable parts to update...

The French. Commercial and industrious are my favourite traits (although expansionist is probably the most fun), I'm a builder and musketeers come at a great time for a GA. I typically start a game by attacking the first enemy I find with warriors and archers and leaving only their capital...

I'm in the same boat as the OP. I build temples everywhere, and usually have my cities overlap by one or two squares, but don't like having as many as three squares overlap.

I'd say I'm a good regent player and okay monarch player, but nowhere near the level of many on this forum I tend not to bother with any wonders in the AA, but I plan to start prioritising the pyramids from now. MA: I always try to get the Sistine Chapel, J.S. Bach's Cathedral and Smith's...

I never used to go for it until recently. It's one of three in the middle ages I never try to go without now (the others being the Sistine Chapel and J.S.Bach's Cathedral). When I'm a commercial civ (it's my favourite trait) I sometimes find I can sustain an 80/20 or even 90/10 tax rate in...

The bait city I read through the first nine pages and didn't notice this mentioned, but since the AI know the defences of all of your cities it sometimes pays to keep one city deep in your territory weakly defended. The AI will often try to send their big stacks directly for this small...

Apologies if this comes across as obvious, but I find it's always best to operate at a bit of a deficit and then when you only have 1 more turn to get a tech- slide the tax rate as far to the left as possible while still getting the tech next turn. That way you don't waste any science spending...

From the start of a game I'll typically set the science rate to 70/80 percent and go for the wheel first to reveal horses. Then I'll go for bronze working, then iron working. In the meantime I'll build 5 or more warriors. One stays in my capital, the other 4 explore, and then converge when I've...