Recent content by Turbofish

Very interesting and useful concepts brought up in this thread so far. I've recently been trying for SVs on Immortal with Germany. Typically on Large Continents maps. The past 2 games I've been getting them around T235 (unfortunately, both times without any Science city states), and of course...

I'll get them at times if I need the boost to pop growth (when I'm -1 to +1 of the pop cap) for an extra district in a city. Then once I hit the population required I turn it off at the next opportunity. With the exception of New Deal. I almost never get that due to the -8 gold per...

Hahaha what? What did pine trees ever do to you?

IIRC, the weirdest i've seen is Scythia having a city called Seven Brothers.

Immortal usually and emperor when I'm trying something new. King when playing hotseat with friends who are playing for the first time. Used to play deity but after being contained by India playing Emperor first game post spring patch, I never got down to playing deity after the patch :cringe:

How large do you typically go? When I play teddy (immortal typically), I end the game with around 7-10 cities max with a CV..and it doesn't sound too large to me. SV games (not with teddy) usually cause me to end with at least 15 cities.

Is this true? I may be wrong, but IIRC the +5 home continent bonus only applied to the continent your capital is in.

I mostly play Teddy as I find his bonuses flow pretty well through the game. Early game the +5 combat bonus on home continent help on wars, barbarians and expansion in general. After early expansion, I turtle and play the diplomacy game while getting tourism up, until hitting late game where...

I typically play on Emperor or Immortal, and I also feel that barbs tend to attack me over the AI. I find it especially so when the city I'm attacking spawns rebel barbs due to the low amenities.

I just won a cultural victory with Teddy (standard size/speed/most other settings, Immortal, Pangaea), and what I thought was interesting and pretty awesome was that I started out next to England, and I captured a bunch of her cities during the ancient-medieval eras. As I started to build...

I typically get a couple of P-51s for defence whenever I'm playing America and going for a cultural victory, though for the amount of cogs spent on the aerodrome and the aircraft, building more ground units might be more optimal. I do like their ability to quickly cross from one end of your...