Recent content by VexTheSane

Perhaps it could simply be a matter of assigning a popped great person to become your leader. The identity could be determined by A) your choice of civics B) the role you assign them to. You could just get the message a great person is born, and have the option of making them a leader or...

Rather than have your leader constantly replaced (as not all or many world leaders are particularly noteworthy in the grand scheme of things), perhaps it could be done similarly to the great person / golden age system. "A great leader is born." During the great leader's life expectancy (even...

Representation is where it starts getting tricky. Representation likely features sizeable bonuses to all fields, but is limited in actually giving the people a voice. The types of leaders that are born to Representation are literally embodiments of what the majority of you citizens feel they...

Personally, I wish they'd jettison the leader / great people / golden age systems as they stand and make it based upon your playstyle. Namely by your civic choices, which frankly evolve from game to game based on your environment. I'd rather see them somewhat meshed, creating a whole dynasty...

Cool! I was just going to ask you how things were progressing. Actually, in regards to monarch (BTS), I'm finding that small empires are proving more effective than in noble. The AI seem more capable of stalemating one another, so no single enemy civ is taking off wildly out of control...

I agree with this. In vanilla civ, the enemy tended to do more harrassing than actual conquering. Monty was the only resident sociopath in most of my old games.

Gilgamesh. And not just the early game. I ran across him and his neighbors possessing a substantial tech lead, and made first contact with his continent as Augustus. I had already removed Monty and Lizzy from my continent, so I guess I got sloppy from so many years of peace. We hit it off...

Its sound reasoning, but like all games balance it against your neighbors. My Julius steamrolling came from adopting caste system before establishing a more solid defense. Holding onto slavery a bit longer might have sent him home in shame and given me some much needed breathing room. On...

Just tried again with the Incan empire. They seem like a natural fit, just crank out money and wonders. Then Portugal, Julius, and Korea all showed up and they all managed to start their own religions. That went over about as well as you can imagine. :lol: (Julius was the last to get...

It can be done, but it really depends on your starting neighbors more than anything. I won an espionage game with 5 junk cities at the end. (it was only on noble to test it out, so don't get too excited). I seem to recall playing as the Dutch. I think it was Frederick and Washington who...

I can't get over the hate for the Celts. GW isn't the greatest, but its a great long term investment unit. The 50% withdrawal, hill move, hill attack, and defense bonus give them a tremendous survival rate. Meaning, soon enough you'll be attacking with macemen who can do all of those...

Its ugly to say, but I tend to eliminate Tokugawa as a priority for this very reason. Izzy, Monty, and Ragnar like to start wars, but Tokugawa can be a real pain even when severely out teched. I also agree about the samurai. They take a lot of work to get started, but they are absolute...

I always run into some weird fluke whenever I play as one of the powerhouse leaders. An early spawn of incredibly lucky barbarians, constantly getting hit with natural disasters, Ragnar finds Bronze Working in a goody hut, etc. Curiously, Boudica always works out for me despite being...

Absolutely. Saving great people to accelerate development of subjugated or frontier cities could be brutally effective in the early game, when they pop quickly and have a lesser technical payout. They'd be immensely useful in late game, but tend to show up so slowly by then. A shame. But...

I've never played a pure pillage (no subsequent conquest) strategy outside of the early game. A handful of chariots with no intention of taking cities can effectively freeze the development of your early rivals at the beginning. In Warlords, I think Montezuma fields the only advanced early...