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Great to see you back. Missed your Let's Plays during your time away. Glad you did Shoshone, look forward to watching this series.

Speaking of cheaper, do they cost less to upgrade, if one already has knights?

Fantastic, good to know. I'm playing them right now but only 30 turns in so this is helpful to plan my attack. 5 movement points for Cavalry sounds fun :D

My apologies if this has been discussed somewhere else but I couldn't find it. Other than being a bit cheaper, is there any difference between a Comanche Rider and Cavalry? Says cheaper and faster, but what does faster really mean? Both have 4 movement points. I believe one of the abilities...

Rhamy can kiss my arse. He needs to die in all my games. Always buddy buddy with me, then backstabs me and then flips all my allied CS. He is just a big pain in the arse. So he dies.

I don't think anyone is not saying attack early as most of the top players definitely take over a capital or two as soon as possible. Raise the crappy cities, keep the capital and replant where/when necessary. Wiping out your early neighbour is always a good suggestion. As for barracks...

I guess in my situation (build order and tech) I can't always afford to get to the wheel right away and I need defense early (i.e., archers). It is kind of a catch 22. Do I have time to get to the wheel? Do I have horses? Do I have time to build CA or could I just pump out 3-4 archers early...

I used to dislike them but have come around to them. My biggest problem is fitting them into my build order unless I'm playing Egypt etc, or Arabia where I want to upgrade them. In the current IC9 - America I think CA would have been great as there was lots of open space that they could have...

I'm in it, just a slower player, plus real life is very busy. I'll be out of town for about 5-6 days so no gaming this weekend :( My science is OK but nothing spectacular and didn't settle next to mountains so could be more challenging.

Turn 88 update

So many good games, so little time. I'd like to play this but I'm not sure when I will finish IC9 with America. A new GotM is coming out soon too. As for this map, that looks like a challenging start.

It all depends on the map, your civ, your social policies, available luxuries, the difficulty you play on, if you are going to get a religion etc. Like you said, sometimes 4 works, sometimes 6. It is basically what the map/game will allow. Lots of resources and room to expand? Maybe...

Askia for me for sure. He likes how I roll. I'll DoW a few people and he is still my best bud till the end. I get him a fair bit but we always seem to be on the other side of the map. He loves buying my resources. What a guy.

I was thinking that if the OP enabled all victory conditions it would ensure the AI could compete and not be so "weak".