Recent content by the_ref

thanks for the comments, much appreciated. The reason I try and build culture buildings is to push out the borders of a city, so I often try and build lots of them in captured cities, as I often find them completely hemmed in by other civs culture. is a more effective approach to this to use...

thanks very much for the comments. a big help. I decided to go to the diplomatic victory, but just failed :( I seemed to be always 5-10 votes under the required votes, and I just ran out of time. However, that was probably because I didn't chase down Japan and Monty quickly enough. I took...

Hi all, I've been playing a few games on Noble, and need some help. I've attached a saved game file. Basically there are about 83 turns to go, and in the previous few turns (say about 50 or so), I've become the most dominant civ. I'm playing the old world style map. This is a situation...

great tips, guys, many thanks. Tried to put some into practice yesterday - had much better luck at warfare, but came a cropper when I ended up taking cities too far away, and had a huge maintenance bill, and my research starting failling behind a bit. but definitely better militarily...

If i have a catapult, do I actively use it to attack units sitting just outside the city? Or do i wait for it to be attacked, and let it damage other units in the stack? presumably if I use it to attack, it'll likely lose, and I'll need ot have a decent unit to follow up the attack with?

so typically how many units would you have an attack/defense/stack. Would the idea be to just mix it so a couple of axeman/spearman/catapult? And how can I tell what kind of stack someone could throw at me - I think I misjudge that, because I see an empire about the same size as me, at...

Hi everybody - first post on the forum! :) I was looking for some help about how many units to build. Basically, I've been playing a few games on noble, and although I often think I'm doing quite well (in terms of decent cities and tech), I always end losing. I've been through a lot...