Recent content by Zarty

Well, thanks everyone. I reloaded a save and tried again to win the city and succeeded this time but... as if interpretting my pending victory over that city, the other CIV declared war on me this time. Completely screwed again. Anyway, the info has all been useful. Zarty

Ok, thanks for the feedback. The general theme seems to be 'more seige' and for collateral as well as bringing defences down. Looks like I could be attacking more effectively too looking at JujuLautre's result - I didn't use the macemen very much. One other question related to this...

I am getting bored with CivIV BTS because it seems to me that the game is unbalanced in the AI's favour for city attack and defence. Time and time again I've seen when trying to defend a city, regardless of it's high defensive rating and a good stack of promoted bowmen, get taken over at will...

I read this thread from the beginning and I am having the same kind of frustration with CivIV BTS. What really is pushing me to the point of thinking it's an unbalanced game is something that I see just about every game... I can use a lot of resources building a big stack of units to attack a...

I was doing unusually well in a BTS game yesterday and it suddenly crashed. I loaded an auto save of the game and it keeps crashing at the same point. So many hours goes into these games... Crashing is one thing, corruption is another! Is there something that can be done to repair a save...

Thanks for the great feedback everyone. The thing that has been mentioned a few times (and I've certainly been thinking it as well) is that I need to manage things properly to build up into a winning position. I get the feeling I'm doing something wrong with my cities - maybe over developing...

Willem, Yeh, that's what I thought. In fact, I was way ahead on points anyway. However, having lost to cultural victory initially, I tried again from a saved game and experimented with taking those cities. As I was saying to Orange, it looked like it was going well until Julius slaughtered...

Orange, Yeh, I didn't notice that for a few turns but I didnt' let it continue for too long. I understand I need to keep on top of that. Well, I tried again after losing to the cultural victory by loading up the save. I went across and took over the three cities and my military lead made...

It'll probably help if I upload the next save which shows things after I'ld been building up and discovering the other CIVs. Zarty

Appreciate the comments. Yeh, it makes sense that I'm just crippling my economy by trying to take over the continent. It's just that when I used to just take over one civ and be happy with that, the other civs seemed to always be ahead. Anyway, I've uploaded a save a good period of time after...

Another newbiew question. I'm fairly new to CivIV and BtS. I've been reading quite a lot of the messages in this forum to see how I can do better but still seem to be missing something quite important. I'm playing Warlord and I read that it's important to grab some land and that probably...

Thanks! About this 'research future techs' until the end of the game'... A bit confused about that as 'Future Tech' is researched as a single tech. I can't see an end to it. I have being making cities do research and that contributes to future tech research but I still haven't seen it...

Not being playing long. On Warlord. I was way ahead in terms of the points shown in the bottom right window and was trying to see what would happen if I carried on researching 'Future Tech', which seems to never end! I had one of the two continents all to myself by the way. Anyway, I got...

Ta for the useful responses. I begin to understand. As kazapp said, I have been getting too many units produced too soon. It seems to mean that I have a good start but get overtaken by the others around mid-game. If I can make more wealth, commerce and culture on-stream sooner then...

Now I understand thanks. I was selecting these but probably not often enough.