Recent content by wilkie

Uninstalled everything, updated Direct X, reinstalled 1.09, retail patch to 1.61, installed d2d bts 3.19. And it works. Ha!

Anyone? Makes me :( with no BTS.

Dusted off old copy (1.09) of Civ 4 vanilla. Retail to 1.61; retail to 1.74. Bought BTS off D2D (before i saw the news update that civ 4 complete for only $10, damnit) and installed. Civ 4 vanilla loads and runs fine. BTS loads, black screen, hangs at INIT ENGINE. I have: set Nointromovies...

I waited till I had ten Swordsmen with Bronze weapons, city raider and combat. As CR reduces the defender's strength and the dragon fear is dependent upon the strength ratio (I think), only 2 of my swordsmen ran away.

Maybe I'm a bit more patient - while downloading the FFH2 (.15 I think) I read the world history spoiler. This only piqued my interest and when it was done installing I dived into the 'pedia to get a better grasp on the storyline. A mod with such an engaging background such as this almost...

Ah, thank you all for the quick replies. I suppose I should have checked the wiki first. For now, my mud golems will be busy rebuilding farms and pastures. Next on the list - sacking the Ragnarok city.

I've been dabbling with FFHII since .16 and just recently dled .21f. The Armageddon counter is a nice touch...as are the rather shocking side effects. Six continents, Huge, Cold climate, low sea level, marathon. Three civs were obliterated by the barbs by turn 75. Almanchier started on my...

Agreed, MindProphetX. When I discover a choice parcel of land, it's a foot race and my settler can't seem to get there fast enough. Perhaps something along the lines of a toggle button - 'Claim land mode' where the scout becomes immobile but projects a culture barrier similiar to the second...

CTD, but tinkered enough and found the problem: If I simply re-arrange Caesar's seventeen ground units stuffed into Rome, the turn resolves. I set three Galleons in adjacent sea zones and distributed his Knights in the countryside. Emailing after this posts.

I'll throw my hat into the CTD ring. I enjoy custom_continents and assign one per civ so I at least got to research Flight before everything went to crap. I loaded an autosave four turns previous and CTD happened exactly four turns later. There is a war brewing between Ghengis and Musa; I...

It's from SMAX. It plays when you build some base facility for the first time...not sure what facility. This one I enjoy as well: "Richard Baxton piloted his Recon Rover into a fungal vortex and held off four waves of mind worms, saving an entire colony. We immediately purchased his...

1). Uninstall. 2). Destroy install discs. Drastic, but it works. This is only effective if you have enough willpower NOT to spend more money on another copy. You may laugh, but I had to do this when NWN first came out. Grades kept slipping and something had to give. First a good...

I had a similiar experience with my carefully cultivated almost level 5 Gunship get knocked down to a whopping 3 HP from a Cannon. I haven't had an instance of Spear vs Tank, but the image of seeing an Apache get clobbered by a cannonball was quite amusing...after my incredulous expression...

I'm only on my 3rd Civ 4 game, but I would have liked the German UU to be named the Panther - as that's the model shown in the civilopedia. Then again, I suppose the general audience of this game isn't as well versed on the different models of armored units. Upon re-reading, that sounds very...

While I agree the music is great, due to my poor computer specs I have to play zoomed in quite far. I'm not positive, but if you zoom in close enough the era-specific music is replaced with civ-specific music. This could be the same music you hear at the diplo screen - in my current game I'm...