Recent content by Tall German Joe

People who are read the game and are globally spoiled (the lurkers) aren't supposed to make comments about the game to people that are playing in it. For the most part, this policy is about upholding "CTON" diplomacy, which means Can't Talk Or Negotiate (OB, maps, resources, cash, and gpt are...

Of course, of course. I'm making my own decisions, I just wanted to study how others have done it in an alternate situation. :) From what I remembered about the HoF spacerace games, the general scenerio was to conquer the entire map long before space. Thus, the order they used would represent...

Thanks for the advice, guys. The thread by WastinTime was the one I was thinking of. I also looked at a few games by duckweed that he linked from this thread (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=450456&highlight=space) and a bunch of the top HoF Space games on huge maps, although...

Thanks, that's a very good idea, I'll check that out and study a few of those games. However, I'd still be interested in any writeups you know of, particularly ones that go into the "why" of the tech order as I need to judge those those reasons as relative to my own situation. For example, IIRC...

Howdy, S&T, long time no see. I've got a question here for you guys. I remember in the past reading here some sort of guide, or maybe it was a detailed report of a HoF game, about optimal end-game tech order for space race victory. I'm interested in reading something like that because I'm...

Hmmm, felt like this one was a little easier.

settled 1W; chose not to settle on the PH because i remembered how painfully rare production tiles are on rainforest maps. was not able to make contact with all AIs by a reasonable date due to an extreme influx of barbs and our isolated corner position. had to pump extra jags just to explore...

yeesh, what a start. a little rusty, haven't played in awhile, but im making the most of this I think. here's where I'm at 1AD:

I don't think that would have worked out, at least with us; I think that the assigned "SGOTM coach" player would just feel isolated and alienated... especially so after we started communicating more about the game by steam and our offsite forum than here after our posts started getting censored...

hmmm, I think you guys are putting too much blame on me. its true that once I gave up, the team was pretty much dead; however, before that happened, we had already lost 8 guys (including those we lost before the game even started). let me give my perspective here: part of the problem here was...

fall from heaven is very fun to play for a little while, but unfortunately its not very deep strategy-wise. an experienced civver will be stifled at first when tried-and-true tactics from the base game seem to fizzle in ffh2, but will then quickly realize, probably within just a few games, that...

is the most recent save uploaded? i could play some turns.

we can probably manage with what we have for now. the stone/clams site would be nice, but I'd rather take that juicy looking spot from goldmember... be good to start pumping some units now. we'll need a small stack (4 units lets say, axes/swords), 2 galleys, and 2 cats at the very least. if...

i did a walkthrough of a deity engineering rush here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=501267 i used suleiman, who I consider the best leader for it, although I give some details on some other top engineering rush leaders in the first couple of posts. there's a lot of discussion...

with rep, a few libraries, and a little luck, there's still time to bulb engineering by a decent date... it would do really well considering you a.) have close neighbors b.) have access to elephants and c.) have very good production.