Recent content by Yusaku Jon III

The good news has been that I've been able to install Civ IV on my PC without even seeing a single glitch, and it plays beautifully, if the movement of units seems a bit faster than I expected. I guess this comes from being used to turning off or dialing down graphics on the old PC. None the...

I have a question regarding whether or not Sid Meiers's Civilization IV or any of its expansion packs would be able to run on a new PC that I'm having installed with the following hardware configuration and the Windows XP 64-bit OS: Asus Crosshair motherboard AMD Athlon64 X2 processor 4...

I've had Shaka, Ragnar and Bismarck show up most often. They usually start to outstrip me in tech trading and territory if I'm not on my toes and moving quickly to finish wonders and/or fence off key resources. I've seldom seen Lincoln or Louis XIV as an AI civ, perhaps because I haven't...

Ragnar and his Vikings. He seems to start out nice, if you have some distance from him, but by the time you start bumping into his borders, it's only a matter of time before he starts sending those Berzerkers towards you and DoWs you. It happened to me twice that I can recall. :backstab...

Point. Never trust Montezuma. Ever! I'm finding that if you play games the way I'm doing it (vs 2-3 AI on a huge contintnets map at Warlord difficulty), a large military is a must, especially if you're on a very large continent and there are barbs popping up all over the place with your...

I think most of the replies to this thread summed up what I was about to say, but even on the Warlord level game, you're going to have AI civs at war with each other. Thing is, it could take some instigation by you... On one recent game, I was playing a huge continents map and had the...

Mind if I make a suggestion as to which promotion you get next? You could try for City Raider III or Commando. The first should make your axeman a lean, mean pillaging machine; the second gives him mobility on enemy roads. Of course, you might've already finished the game.

First off, a little advice for Lord_M... it's all about self-discipline. If you're not going to train yourself to step back and tell yourself that it's only a game and that you'll have three or four hours on the weekend to pick up where you left off, then nobody's going to help you break the...

I can't see how you'd want to get by without at least one city-fortified archer, especially in a game where you may have stacks of enemy units (barbs or other civs) coming at your city from all directions at once, and if you're unable to place any sources of copper or iron within your borde at...

Vapor, the next time "Cathy" slaps you about, back off quietly and take it like a man. Barring that, make danged sure that you've got strong units capable of taking on her Cossacks before charging in. You're better off slapping her back and then letting her armies wear themselves out on your...

I'll have to say this about the cow pic. Maybe the worker's using that hammer for something else again? That's an awfully small cow... :groucho:

While I'm still searching for a winning early strat, it almost seems certain that having promoted units (such as archers with the city defense upgrade) as soon as you can, building a barracks while you study archery. This almost guarantees a city's survival against all but the most powerful...

Just for the record... You don't have it bad until you're plunked down on a large continent and your next door neighbor in hemmed in by you. It ain't the barbs you've got to worry about, it's that "Our close borders are causing tension" biz. I was Isabella and was going along nicely, not...

I've been playing on Normal mostly out of habit since this is still very much a learning experience for me. But, with my becoming familiar with the interface and all that, I'm considering switching to the Quick speed due to the time constraints and a desire to see how the late game works out...

The thread title is "End of the Greatest City on Earth", but Babylon was already spoken for. I guess that leaves only room for possible contenders. PERSEPOLIS Once the heart of ancient Persia, this site has the remains of a number of great buildings and monuments, among them the...