Recent content by Usuno

Are they still warriors? Every era you can upgrade your units (most of the time anyway) to a more current military depending on whether you've researched the "weapon" techs or not. For example once you research Iron Working, you can select a warrior and a little button will appear in the...

Well they are a hostile, militaristic civ... sounds perfect for warrior recruitment. :D Mm, not sure yet, I've still got to develop the major game plan, but it's tough without knowing anything. I've never done anything but warmongering as the Japanese. Being this isolated might open up or even...

That's what's up folks, it's time for a complete random marathon game, told in story form with screenshots and spoiler tags! It's gonna be a bit scrubby compared to some of the good stories on this forum. :c I just figured out how to make screenshots. Well... not completely random. The map...

Mm, it's not a gamebreaking difference, as far as I can tell. I kill and scout for barb camps judiciously, while the AI tends to do silly things like keep their soldiers cooped up in their base instead of barb hunting, getting their scout wounded and fortifying until either the barb gives up and...

So... does anyone have trouble using f12 to take screenshots? I'm trying to do one of these screenshot-playthrough-story things in the Stories and Tales forum. My print screen + copypasta into MS Paint turns up a giant black box of nothing. Ok Steam, fair game, we'll play by your rules... I...

Like the guy above, I had a game where Washington had 5 pop real early, and they started starving. :thumbsdown: But it worked itself out because they were starving too slow for someone to die, eventually I got my granary out and in the meantime I just prayed I wouldn't hit another pop. ruin. c...

I've always gotta have raging barbs on, makes the early game less boring when you've got wave after wave of harassment coming at your city. I play marathon only though, so it matters more if you leave barb camps unattended. 1 tile pillaged in normal = 4-6 turns of work. 1 tile pillaged in...

I usually make a judgement call once the city's done revolting, based on how good of a strategic location it is. If it's not in a spot where I say, "hm, I've got a specific plan for this city," then I'll just puppet and let the AI do its thing, or raze if it's too close to a better city or has...

This happened once in a game with ruins on and my scout became the Queen of my chessboard, getting mad upgrades and tearing apart armies before they even got close. They'd either try to duck into cover and fortify/heal, which was worse than useless because promotion vs. fortified units +...

How are you supposed to work the Krakatoa tile? In every game I've found it, and every map I've random generated in world builder, it spawns on a one tile island with no other islands in sight. Is it just intended as a wonder to be discovered and nothing else? If so I don't see why they bother...

Had a 42 Delhi with an India game once, I got the Bollywood achi. c: Perfect city location, a six tile radius near perfect hex, with mountains and ocean protecting all but 2 narrow (2 tile and 4 tile) choke points. It was standard speed though, I only play marathon now so it's doubtful I'll ever...

I've found that unless you know that the other civ has allies, it's good to denounce a civ that denounces you immediately, ends up in less of a diplo hit with other nations and puts you in a good spot if they have enemies. Other than that, I try to stay out of the denouncement game, too wildly...

You get the promotion when you touch the fountain, and it stays with you as a permanent promotion. Every unit I create makes a beeline straight for the FoY before anything else, then they go fight and become uber-promoted monsters because they don't die. This more than the happiness is the OP...

Can Cho ko nu get the Logistics double attack promotion as well? Or do they not stack? I might wanna try out China just to see crossbows firing 3x and killing anything in sight. :lol: x2 fun if it was upgraded from a scout.

Finally got a chance to sit down for a bit and conquer some things, and Darius' pathetic armies got demolished by the Samurai blitz. Poor guy got one Immortal out at the end, or maybe he was saving it as a last stand. So as it is, I've got all of Darius' cities puppeted except that one up...