Recent content by Xurr

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    Things in this game that annoy you to no end

    Yep thats my pet peeve too. What I've never understood is why global warming means desert and not tropical rain forest? Warmer temps means more water evaporation and more rain.
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    HELP: Can't win on Monarch:(

    take out the barracks. You don't need that in the very beginning. My build order is usually something like this. worker, warrior/archers until happy cap( 5 pop) settler, worker, worker, settler after the second settler you can switch your capital to building an early wonder and have your...
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    Second city founding?

    My priority would be getting copper or horses at that point. Explore east of your capital and hopefully there will be a source there.
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    Role Play Challenge: Alexander Greek God of War III

    Qin should be first. He has a habit of dowing when AL attacks Suli.
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    Paradigm Shift

    My first city would be 1N1E of the copper to the south. It will grab cows, rice, spices and the copper. Not to mention the oasis too.
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    City Raider for Swords or Drill for all Melee units?

    What I don't see in all this is the fact that the bonus applies to all future units you build too. That includes macemen. If you just take the CR bonus your future swords will get it too, but if you choose the Drill your macemen, axemen, spears and many UUs will get it. I prefer the drill...
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    Role Play Challenge: Alexander Greek God of War III

    I'd rebuild the army and finish off China. That will give you a nice base to tech with. Also since you've effectively cut the continent in half and separated gilg from the rest you can finish him off too. This would give only 1 border to worry about.
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    I love faux-isolated starts.

    Meh, all you need is a few axemen and you have a nice exp farm for your units.
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    Can someone explain this for me?

    Scroll down in the event log and look for the loss of a health source. Also did you build an unhealthy building like a forge, factory, drydock etc?
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    Role Play Challenge: Alexander Greek God of War III

    1N1W of the copper puts the city on the river for +2:health: , which will help with all that jungle.
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    Role Play Challenge: Alexander Greek God of War III

    Settle the first settler where your warrior is on the grass hill to grab the copper, stone and cows. Chop out a second settler fast and settle 1N1W of the copper Near Gilg. If that prevents gilg from getting any copper rush him before he can get Iron.
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    Always feel overwhelmed at the start

    Yes because there are some techs that you want to be the first to get. The only real way to do this is to B-line and skip other techs. Sure you can back fill those other techs later but the B-line is a priority. Some examples of techs that many people B-line to are Priesthood(build the oracle)...
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    Mad Scientist's RPC summary

    can you build scouts and explorers? They aren't technically military since they can't attack. Now that would make for a interesting defense, 20-30 explorers defending a city.
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    Always feel overwhelmed at the start

    I would search through this forum( Strats and tips) for walk throughs. There are quite a few and many have excellent starting strategies. I found a starting strat that I liked and practiced it with a few different civs. By practicing it I would start the game and run it to about 1000bc-0bc or so...
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    WTF is wrong with this game?

    A few strategically placed axemen outside your cities on the border to the fog is all you need to halt the barbs. This gives them all great experience and I sometimes rotate out a few to get the max experience for a number of them. You can usually determine the flow spots for barbs by watching...
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