Recent content by unhealthyman

Heh, continents is fun really. It's very different from playing pangaea... and makes a space victory far more tempting, but it allows a different early game to be played out. Personally, I found it quite fun, though it was also a bit random.

Well, its irrelevant really. If its decided they should be on, then fair play, that makes sense, but equally, if its decided they can be off... then theres also benefits and disadvantages from that as well... If the official rule of the HOF is that barbs must be on, then theres no area to...

If you are really bothered about score then the biggest factor really is time. Easy way to get 50k+ : Play as romans (optional,) chop rush some barracks and some praetorians, promote them with city raider and then send them to kill all the other civs... Aim for a win around 1000BC or...

I often save before a declaring war on a strong opponent out of fear that they will suddenly march in huge armies and kill me, but i've never actually bothered to reload - if it goes wrong i usually quit. I sometimes save a good start and then play differently from the same start - just to...

I like windmills and watermills as they improve as you research more techs, but its a pain because by the time you start getting them most of your original cities are fully improved and i'm usually too lazy to start again. Once windmills have been improved, they generally make more sense than...

The site he linked is just another thread on a different board of this forum which goes through how he does it step-by-step... If you wanna know how he gets such high scores then I suggest you read that.

Indeed, early expansion is a pretty decent tactic, but dont make the mistake I made last game of making 5 cities so far apart that the maintenance costs make you go broke :confused: It can be clever to grab a large chunk of land or an important resource early on, but the jokes on you when your...

How do you take cities without using any catapults/cannons/artillery? Do you just suicide units at 80% defence? Haha, my last game ended up as a domination instead of a spacerace as I discovered that my entire half of the map had no aluminiun. I was planning on just taking one neighbouring...

I'm addicted to pangaea at the moment, I literally have never played most of the map types just because I don't know what to expect/how to adapt my tactics. Can anyone give me some advice on how the different maps affect play style? I've always disliked boats ever since early civ games...

Once you get modern armour/tanks, artillery is such a pain in the ass. Bombers are probably a good idea for that... Last game I just skipped flight and got future tech, because I am too lazy, but my domination win was probably slowed down quite a lot by waiting for artillery to catch up. I...

I hadn't thought of it like that, maybe in my next game above standard map size I will move the speed down. Always just played on normal so far, so many options that I don't like messing with too many of them, but that makes sense.

Playing as monty on a large (i think) map, and after taking out a couple of civs, with large armies of infantry and artillery, I still only have 45% of the pop and the land mass, and the only place left to conquer is the massive indian empire which has been able to develop while I was at war to...

I've noticed that most victories are FAR easier on a small to duel map than any other size. With 2 opponent civs, you can get a conquest or a domination victory without even trying and if you take out just one other civ early one you will have enough of an advantage to get the space race with no...

Last game I ended up getting quite a few great artists and had real problem finding any use for them... Apart from joining your city for + 3 commerce and +14 culture (wow, not that exciting) the culture bomb aspect of them is rarely useful as far as I can see, and was doing well enough not to...

I may well be wrong, but I dont think it matters who declares war when it comes to war weariness. The only thing that it does affect is diplomacy - If you declare war on someones friend you get the 'declared war on my friend' negative effect. So as far as I know the only time you would want...