Recent content by ThyGuy

I'll play, and being Ghandi, I'll try for a culture victory. I just had my first victory on Monarch (Domination), so it'll be nice to see if I can pull off a culture.

Here's the situation: Elizabeth, one of the Inca leaders, and I are on a continent. I quickly blocked Elizabeth off from the northern part of the continent with cities. A barb city appeared on the northern side and before I could get over and wipe it out, Elizabeth rushed over and snatched the...

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I've never did a game on the threads, but it sure wouldn't hurt to do so now. I'll start a new monarch game with detailed settings on another thread.

So I've finally figured I'm ready for monarch level of difficulty. I've heard everyone say the jump from Prince to Monarch is eye opening and I can completely understand why. The Barbs seems to come faster and with better units, and the AI have become shrewd bastards. I think it would be...

Should I allow my cities to reach max growth before I start the whip cycling? I know it's fine to whip a granary on a 2 size city but for everything else I believe my method is very suboptimal.

When a AI demands a tribute of a resource like say horse or Iron. Go ahead and give it to them. Wait 10 turns and then simply cancel the deal as soon as peace is over. You won't get any demerits from them for the cancel and they might just come back asking for it again in tribute; a great way to...

Thanks for the tips guys. After playing about 9 frustrating games; I discovered the main culprit. Not managing my cities. When I began to make cities for soley production, commerce, research, suddenly I can not only keep up with the AI, but over run them. Using random leader (Got Charles)...

Wow! What exactly did that warrior say when it came into the village? :lol: