Recent content by trickofthehand

This actually just happened to me with Rome. They had only capital and 2 puppets left, one of which was a city-state. I conquered Rome and interestingly enough neither of the two puppets became a capital. I left the Romans alone for a few hundred years and neither puppet city became...

Just watched a brand new Chinese frigate allow itself to be bombarded to death by a city 4 hexes from friendly territory. Probably one of the reasons I don't play Civ 5 much.

So when do we blame them for completely discarding the majority of concepts that were already proven and DID work? Shouldn't the next title in a strategy series be about improving and adding complexity, not stripping it to it's bare bones? I'm confused by Civ 5.

It's pretty. That's literally probably it.

Been playing quite a few games lately on different map sizes and templates, I'm just wondering: has anybody seen a single naval invasion by the AI? As a matter of fact I can't even recall the AI building and using a navy even just to help their ground forces along on smaller islands. I've...

we're talking about tens of aircraft or tanks; though I suppose it would be possible for the single battleship.

I'll give you that much, but still, to counter an entire division of tanks as is represented by a Civ unit, you would need an equally equipped division of spearmen... but then they wouldn't be spearmen anymore would they?

First, it would take all of 5 seconds for at least one of the crewmembers to hop on the turret's .50 cal. Second, in hostile territory tank crews eat, sleep and live inside their tanks. There will literally never be a scenario where an ENTIRE tank crew would be outside of their tank. Third...

Wow there's a lot of crocodile tears here, and yes, I'm an American. Want the sociological answer? Europe has expansive mass transit systems that link the majority of nations with each other, this coupled with their extreme proximity means that European citizens will often travel for work...

NextWar era in vanilla CiV? I don't think so. Flies in the face of the entire civ series to date and Sid's own philosophy behind the franchise.

Guess no ethnically diverse units, at least not judging by the screenshots. Good thing we got all those different types of trees though...

Where you always not able to bombard the enemy with artillery if they were on another country's territory? This goes for land and naval bombardment as well. Looking forward to the next release; I play Merged Mod exclusively when I play Civ, I literally don't play any other mod or vanilla.

I thought this was kind of funny. I had just taken the chinese city where my Earl Tank is sitting when the Chinese borders collapsed. A few squares below where my infantry unit is on the lower left side of the screen was another Chinese city I'd recently captured that was under siege by a...

Is 1.10 available for re-download anywhere? I'm researching Fascism on Earth map and my turns are at 2 minutes now.

That's weird, I'm playing the earth 18 civs scenario and regular turns are 30 seconds long with some turns (about every other so far today) being a full minute to minute and a half long. Also playing Ffh2 on marathon with huge map and turns whisk along.