Recent content by Vandervekken

What? am I the only person who feels slightly intimidated by the scandinavians?! The berserk has twice the attack rating of the defenders of the time (pikemen), the only other time this happens in the game is with Sipahi - who come a lot later than musketmen. or with immortals - who are just...

My understanding is that the AI is simply programmed to be more hostile on higher levels. They get to build units faster, and tend to get more angry with you, when you deal with them, AS WELL :crazyeye:

We have to dream or life will just go on sucking...;)

I did see the Privateer/naval warfare thread the other day and started thinking. The problem is that there is nothing to do with a navy, as has been pointed out; everything that matters in the game - resources and cities essentially - is on the land. To make a navy useful we need to get some...

good grief, you have to be playing like a pudding to lose cities once you have MI, even just fortified in a town they are defence 27! when you have a metropolis with a civil defence and nearby radar tower they are defence +225%=48.5!!! more than twice the attack of MA. for heavens sake use...

hmm. I've only played on Emperor or deity a few times and the biggest beef, for me, is not the extra units or even the extra production, but rather the unfair AI to AI trading rate. I think at default it is at 160% - meaning that when the AI trade together they basically give each other 60%...

I've seen it around. It's a big HEAVY box, with hundreds of pieces in it. i'd like to buy it but presumably you need a bunch of civ fanatics to play it or everyone would get board,um bored. :lol:

in my last game i reduced a few captured cities by building settlers and yes they definitely appeared on the captured unit rosta. presumably this would indeed mean that you pay no maintenance on them.:cool: I seem to remember that at one point if you destroyed a captured city by building a...

oops - pressing wrong buttons. anyway has anyone tried this: since attitudes take a hit every time a city gets razed, why not build a supply of settlers, say 1 per city, whenever you are at war - this should not take long as long as you are at least out of the ancient era. plant fresh juicy...

I've just been reading Bamspeedy's AMAZING thread on AI attitudes (after reading his AMAZING thread on corruption - respect)

Does anybody know if the chance is affected by the number of HP your victim has? I ask since my usual tactic is bombarding defenders to 1HP before attacking and I frequently destroy about a dozen cities before I get a GL. - Yes I make sure I attack with Elite units. :egypt: <- this is a...