Recent content by vendur

This strategy seems built largely upon luck.

Are you serious? That's gotta be awfully bad luck. I usually have at least 2 horses within 10 hexes of the starting location, often 6 (usually a 4 one and a 2 one). That's very strange. I always play standard though, so maybe it is the small map thing. You sure you dont have your advanced...

That only reduces the load time for me, not the AI's turns. I also turn off city states and plan to levae them off due to how overpowered maritime ones are.

What difficulty, what map type? Generally I wouldnt bother with them unless I needed to fast buy some defensive units quick because I got attacked with my pants down, or if I had bismarck as a neighbor I would consider rushing him with everything I had to stop the inevitable pike parade.

We really need 12390423704036492307649237460623 pages and posts talking about stuff thats been talked about for weeks in the strategy forum? Please discuss the topic at hand.

It is if conquer the sprawling computers cities and just have a puppet empire.

How early would depend a lot on your starting location and whether or not you want to cut some normal woods for early boosts to production. I think the main point is they can control their starting area pretty well. Its a civ that is kind of setup to build a few large cities, and if you start...

Uhh, universities are early game if you make them early game.Heh. And tradepost research comes from the rationalism policies.

umm, university?. Later you can add tradeposts for more research.

Ya right. I wont even see 6 encampments in an entire Deity game. You would be ultra lucky to just get two free barb allies in any give immortal/deity game on standard settings Also, some people mentioned spamming Landsneckts? but it takes forever to upgrade the unit and the computer almost...

Unless a game is generally billed primarily as a multiplayer game, the reviews generally do not play much of the multiplayer element of the game, just simgle.

I usually mostly hold puppet empires in deity/immortal, so rationalism seems to be a better policy tree. Sometimes I even purposely go into -5 ot lower happiness so my puppets all send their workes to the trading posts.

Ya right, and Iraq has been such an archeology friendly state in the last 100 years they have excavted all over the place! rofl I think china stopped digging when they started digging up red headed white people in ancient china. Anyway getting back to the OP. That voice over in the game...

"horsemen" units are overpowered for a host of reasons far more complicated than simply 1upt. But you are right that horsemen are more benfited by the system than other units, largely because of that ability to move after the attack. then they can relocate and allow even another orseman unit to...

the computer does not "hide in the trees" for any sort of tactical advantage. It's pretty rare to even see trees anywhere near cities after turn 100 or so, cause the computer usually chops them all on the higher difficulties. The trees are usually on the outskirts of their territory. Your logic...