Recent content by trc

Do you have a game to post? Might help. Tech parity at noble is pretty simple, as is world domination :) A military advantage takes a few things: 1) A production city to build the units, HE + Military academy + Bureaucracy. 2) you have to fund this army. Commerce cities, and maybe a religion...

Gotcha. Thanks.

I would think at the higher levels HE becomes more important for the production edge. What am I missing here.

At mid to late game, my core cities are using every tile a available. Plan forest is simply a tile that isn't as productive as it could be. More importantly, keep in mind that forest adds a defensive bonus.. Good at your perimeters, bad if an an attacking army can use them. +25/+50 on city...

The whole nuclear treatment in the game is, ummm "biased". 1) The global warming aspect is questionable. 2) The failure rate of Nuclear plants is unrealistic. 3) First to get Manhattan Project makes it open game. My biggest beef. This should be an expensive technology, not a...

My early mistakes: 1) Making large empires with few cities. Now I worry about core cities for production, commerce, and GP. Then I fill in trying to make a bunch of 7-10 sized cities, that have some food sources, so I can whip the needed buildings for research, espionage and if applicable...

Hmmm... Maybe I need to rethink since no one mentions. Other than the HE, I almost always build Stonehenge in the second city. The reason is I never get the early religions, but usually get Taoism or Confucianism, and not long after pop a GP from the Stonehenge city, which is nice for funding...

Post games, and stats. I recently switched from vanilla to BTS and reset myself just to get a feel. Unlike vanilla, BTS Noble is a bit more than simply knowing the difference between hammers and gold, as has been suggested. At medieval at Noble you should be easily out teching the AI...

If this is real situation, then you played the war wrong. Successful waring based on playing advantages, either in sheer force, or by tech advantage. Fortified LB is where I generally stop until new siege, unless fiercely pumping units, which normally isn't the case at this date. Recent...

Early, I tend to send enough siege that the core attack has pretty high odds. Inexperienced (replaceable) siege first, then experienced siege when retreat odds are +60. These units tend to grow in experience points, making them deadly when when they get upgraded to cannon, etc. The core...

I micro early, i.e. core resources, trade routes, paths into neighboring cities, as well as paths into resources I'll pop to as well as city sites I'm going to settle. Then when I have to start looking for things for them to do, I set the city preferences and then start to automate. Sometimes I...

Many thanks, I look forward to it!.

Cool! I'll hold off. Can you post a link? I googled, but didn't find that.

This might vary based on the level on is playing, so someone who generally plays at a much higher level than I current do, might counter.. 1) Since I usually play for conquest/domination, barbarians are a tool to get a unit up to level 4 so I can build the heroic epic for the increase in...

Call it perfectionist personality disorder ;) Also a means to pick the brains of experience based on an unusual situation. But it's at a point of diminishing return to complete the game as rolling back diminishes the value of the win ;) So it's probably time to start a new one, setting...