Recent content by Tickytoe

What about what 1SDAN suggested? Or is there simply no reasonable way to have doomstacks appear on water first?

There's a mod called History Rewritten and it has vastly improved AI. Idk what they did or used, but I've had AI sail around the world with ships and armies they built and start conquering my continent. It's definitely possible with Civ 4, but I don't know enough about the coding and what not to...

Is it at all possible that the historical conquering can be done better? Rome/Greece conquering the Mediterranean seems fine, just a handful of units spawn outside the city, sure. But the colonization ones are really overpowered. I'm playing a game as Tamil and the entire south-eastern Asia...

Welp, my bad. The AI is just way better and I didn't expect Shaka to pull up with 17 Galleons so I must've missed that the first time around. Case closed.

I'm on a continent by myself and am #1 in power and technology. The Zulus, who have been quietly sitting on their island on the other end of thr world since 4000 BCE, declared war on me out of nowhere in 1740. On the next turn I got an "Approaching Army" notification and scrolled down to see a...

That actually gives me an idea: Have some "fun"/"sandbox" options included in the game setup. - Instant Start. No matter what civ you pick you start out at 3000 BC and can build and grow without hidden modifiers. Could end up with situations like the Sunset Invasion DLC in Crusader Kings II...

All good reasons. In the meantime I could always WB myself a core area there and settle some cities if I really wanted to.

Forgive me if this has been discussed before, I didn't see any threads mentioning it, but why is there no Australian civilization? It always bothers me a bit that there's that chunk of resourceful land that usually gets ignored (even by Britain). I can understand that it's a bit out of the way...