Recent content by StrategeryBush

Are you going to move to the plains hill? It improves your food situation, may get you an additional resource. All you really lose is one floodplain.

1) Slavery is the best reason for researching Bronze Working, much more important than the fact that BW reveals copper, which is just a nice bonus. (Sometimes heavy forestation makes BW an absolute early necessity regardless of Copper or Slavery.) 2) You improve food tiles first so that you...

Most commonly you bombard first. If you have enough Cats (or other siege weapons) you can then attack with the remainder in the same turn, which will soften the defenders up enough that your ground troops can take them out. Often it is a two turn process, bombard on turn one, reduce the...

The reason that Creative helps in placing cities in premium locations early in the game is that you have more flexibility. Often your 2nd or 3rd city needs to be located near either Copper or Horses. If you don't have the Creative trait and you settle 2 spaces away from the Copper you've...

I like the Woodsman III medic because he is a better medic. The healing rate is higher with Woody III than with Combat I and Medic II; though, he doesn't heal in adjacent tiles. 27(?) standard XP gets you Woody III, Combat I, and Medic I, which is plenty good enough for me and is superior to...

When I saw the gems, which was after I settled, I thought of how nice it would have been to be 1 NE. I think that even more now that I am struggling to keep my treasury above 0. Since my last post I got declared on by Alex. Marching my army back to the frontier from where I was gathering it...

Thanks, that was a good call. I took KK out relatively easily using axes from my capitol only, with the help of some lucky 25% attacks. Now to salvage the economy and build for an assault on a fairly weak Alexander. I'm now in a spot where I have very little income and really need to get...

I just finished an emperor game by domination in the 1820s. I had a solid tech lead at that point but was still building Rifles, Grenadiers, Cannon and Airships. A couple of turns before the end I had finished Combustion, so I was still quite a ways off from Tanks. This is pretty typical for...

I'd say "go for it" I play on Emperor and I could certainly stand to see how others deal with the issues that I come up against.

I have Brennus, who I almost never play, in a dry, low-food environment. I have K. Kahn on one side and Alexander TG on the other. It about turn 35 and I just finished a settler last turn and finished researching BW this turn. It is my good fortune to have already mined the Bronze in my BFC...

Jumbo the Elephant.

I tend to agree. None of the medieval units are bad by any means. Each has its use, I think that the Longbow is clearly the best, but all of the others have reasonable value.

In most games, when I'm not creative, I build a monument in each new city as the first build. I also tend to whip it out as soon as I have two population, letting the overflow go into the next build. Stonehenge is nice if you have an industrious leader, but otherwise I don't bother with it. I...

Just because my typical tech path has me going from building Maces to building Riflemen or Grenadiers I almost never build Crossbows. Pikes are stack defenders, and Dr. Null has it right, 'phants make them superfluous, but it is often critical to have them, whereas, if Crossbows disappeared...

I voted that I was less likely to buy Civ VI. I can guarantee that I won't pre-order Civ VI. I will look to this forum and want to see rave reviews before I buy Civ VI, and I'll want it to look a lot more like a Civilization game than whatever it is Civ V looks like.