Recent content by Stradius

I managed to win a game on diety on a standard map (in fact i dominated). I suppose a bit of luck helped, but its doable. THe key is to be AGGRESSIVE. if you think you can win a war, start one. Trying to beat a diety game on large although its very hard.. the AI has at least twice as much...

Ive won twice on emperor (moving to diety now but thats a different story heh.. can you say AI cheating?). The best way ive found to do it is be a civ that has a fast, early unit (jaguar warriors/impis/war chariots). In each game i was able to focus on military strength early on and capture...

I just noticed while i was at war with the Indians that they have war elephants that are 4.3.2. Ok, i go to the trusty civilopedia, and see that the elephants replace knights. Umm.. knights are 4.3.2 also. Am i missing something here? They seem like the same unit.

What i usually do when i capture a city that i know is going to flip is trade it to one of the other civs that is of no direct threat to me. usually i can get a huge sum of cash/maps/techs for the city. the really cool thing is if it is near my borders, it will usually depose back to me. This...

My greatest game yet as the uber Aztecs.. difficulty Emperor, year 1984 . Almost 50 cities, future tech every 4 turns, palace/forbidden placed perfectly so there are only a handful of 1/1 production cities. No mods were used, all original rules. You could win just by hitting enter and...