Recent content by traius

I mean, the pike could just GET +100% (effectively being strength 12 when facing mounted). Like how the combat promos work. Like how it works if the pikeman is defending (when the game WILL show them as strength 12). Pike vs HA is 6 vs 3 pike attacking, 6 vs 12 HA attacking.

Ok, I got another one. The weird, asymmetric effects of +x% vs Y-type. In case you didn't know, if a unit has +x% vs Y (Axeman/Rifleman/etc bonuses), it behaves exactly as you'd expect on defense, giving a straight bonus percentage of whatever it states. But when attacking, it does NOT behave...

I didn't know this was a thing until this game: Stonehenge works under barb control! Somehow Joao lost his capital to Barbarians, and based on the culture in the city, as early as turn 210 (marathon), and the barbarians have controlled it ever since. It was a very atypical game for me: I...

Afaik, a cautious vassal and a pleased master is a cautious master when considering you for war. Which is why it suks whe the vassal gies you the meaningless choice of "make us mad or make us mad," because there is a strong "us" component. The other two I quoted are both top contenders for me...

Feels weird saying "you were hacked? That's great news!" but here we are :crazyeye:

I don't think the imgur image worked, but the upload did. A 4 population, no wonder, non-capital, not-even-established-particularly-early top 5 city!

I think I've figured it out: A capped vassal asking you to stop trading with his master. Not realistic (should result in the master going to war against their vassal again, if you think about it. The vassal is trying to organize an embargo against him!), and there is no meaningful choice thanks...

From what I remember, liberty bells are what bring the King's army down upon you. So you actually want to avoid producing those until you are ready for the final conflict. And that is the entirety of my remaining knowledge of Colonisation

Thanks for the link Pangaea. I am only at page 6 so far, but am enjoying reading the deep insight into the game. I was aware (and have read the writeup) of WastinTime's 4.8M game, and had no idea he had a 10M point game (I hope Kaitzilla explains his 11M+ in that thread, because at page 6 he...

Just played a game where it made perfect sense to go privateers into State property (marathon snaky continents, libbing chemistry; I had 90 privateers at peak and no one had education or gunpowder, let alone chemistry). But then I got a random engineer, and decided to go Free Market instead...

Yeah, not sure how I didn't realize this at the time, but yes, I was killing a fish either way. The tile was a 1/2/4 tile (plains hill fur with +1 food event) before I settled on it (it had the camp for the fur already thanks to the ai who owned the island before I did). That is indeed...

Just had a city settle on a plains hill fur tile that had the "great beast" happen on it. I normally wouldn't like to settle on such a tile, as it is a decent tile to throw away under a city, but not settling on it would kill a fish. Or so I thought. When I settled on the city, it gave me 3...

Against small numbers of city defending units, airships are actually highly effective. Enough to tip the odds of cavalry vs rifles. If there are a whole stack of rifles though, it won't be enough.

My main issue with this is that I only ever attack in the classical age with jumbos, which while highly effective units, are countered by a much earlier unit in spearmen (they still work of course, because a little unit damage from siege goes a long way generally, but especially goes a long way...

1. TES series. I have played everything from daggerfall on, and it's hard for me to say which is the best. I wish I could take some from each of the games. I first played Oblivion and loved it, which made me try the other ones before it, and eventually Skyrim when it came out. 2. Final Fantasy...