Recent content by Tuscarora87

Yeah, there are some tricky situations when it comes to trade routes.

Once borders touch, is it possible to trade across that ocean tile?

Guys, thanks for the answers. Not very encouraging answers though. :cool: I want real strategy, not watered down simulators of various unrelated aspects. Civ4's underlying math, I mean, tension between vertical and horizonal growth is unmatched. Min-maxing, resource conversions, reaching...

After several years I'm reinstalling Civ4 (Immortal player) and I'm curious what's the current opinion on Civ5 and 6 ...from a Civ4 standpoint? Back then I disregarded Civ5 pretty quickly (from my high horse), because of hexes, no stacks, no min-max sliders / exploits, no measurable diplomacy...

There are two kinds of elites - warmongers and "peacemongers". Before steam machines (industrial revolution) (knowledge), wars were the only way to achieve some insignificant wealth and power. After that (paradigm shift), new massive and insane possibilities of neverending production have made...

I was in war with Monty and Bismarck. In the beginning Monty was a vassal of Bismarck; but at one moment during the war, Monty was released. After Bismarck capitulated to me, 2 of Montezuma's (coastal) cities were given to Bismarck. Bunch of wonders are in one of them. One more thing, Bismarck...

Most Civ4 ordinary units are more then okay, but most unique units are utterly worthless, especially those which are worse then the ordinary units they replace. Some unique units are just exceptionally gamebreaking (they excel in killing archers), while others are equal, worse, "meh", or just...

Yeah, otherwise attacking a city with axmen would be too painful.

I play on Immortal, and just today, after several years of playing Civ4, I discovered (by loosing a game) Chariots receive 100% strength bonus vs. Axemen only when they are attacking them, not in defense. Is it the same with all other mounted units, tanks...?

I never bring siege with my mounted units (except sometimes with War chariots). The point of 'mounted warfare' is its mobility, speed of conquest, and nothing else. So, mounted units must and can attack alone; and to compensate for a lack of diversity of siege armies and other combos, they must...

After 30 minutes of playing CiV5, I suddenly realized absence of sliders in the game. It was enough to quit. No sliders, no depth.

That's it. Thanks.

Interesting. Can someone explain, why these cities aren't connected? I've thought, if you build a road to the river, even if it flows through neutral terrain, these 2 cities would be connected. It doesn't seem to be the case. Another example: (For this one I'm not sure...

edit: UB, not UU

Going for Oracle, CoL and Altar can only needlessly delay Jaguar rush (already cheap and resourceless). If you have gold, cottage or something you can beeline Iron Working and start pumping CR Jaguars. Make sure to pillage AI's copper with a warrior (although you can alert AI before you're...