A. Yes, that is a good way to make use of EXTRA resources. Don't sell your last unit of any resource, though, because then you can't use it...
Um, don't you pretty much want to build a courthouse in every city at the first reasonable opportunity anyway?
I prefer Ironworks + National Epic, if I've got a tech lead and get a chance to build other wonders before the AI can. You'd be amazed how fast...
Be careful in relying on open borders. I was doing this very same tactic once, against the Chinese. I put my airforce and attack stack in a...
What he said. To avoid assignment of specialists, select citizen auto-placement with food, hammers, and gold all selected as priority....
There's always nuclear war.
I love pillaging those roads connecting AI cities that are outside of their cultural borders. Easy way to retard their progress, and they get no...
You only need BW asap if you are also building a worker asap. I most often pop a warrior first, letting my city go to size 2 in the process, to...
As the other poster mentioned, I meant stacking promotions on a single unit. Cover gives 25% bonus vs. archers, which is nice to have when dealing...
I have noticed that this game really punishes you when you don't do it right the first time. If you fail your first attack against a city, the...
Civ IV isn't the first of the series with a wildly disproportionate emphasis on the disposition of the capital. I remember even back in Civ I and...
Last time this thread came around, I said "carriers", and I am sticking with that. There's simply no situation where I can imagine building a...
I wonder if a potential city site being a plains hill affects the calculation. Also I'd be interested in knowing whether fresh water, forests or...
Don't worry about him sneaking marginal cities behind your lines - being separated from support (workers and other units that could be contributed...
Does anything say "romance" like plants on a ziggurat?
I never bothered to get the expansion, so I don't know if it's changed, but in the original George Washington is Fin/Org.
Are all other settings standard? Even the same level can vary widely in difficulty based on the game speed, map size, and number of opponents....
I'm anti-alphabet, myself, I don't get it until most other civs have it, usually. With competing priorities I never can bring myself to choose it....
Here's an idea... play Prince level on normal speed for a while, then move to Monarch/epic. The dirty little secret with regards to game speed is...
1) Freedom of movement - roads on those tiles help you achieve a superiority of mobility against any opponent. 2) Resource exploitation 3)...
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