Food doesn't corrupt

[Frostyboy]

Trade is corrupted, Shields are wasted but food isn't touched by corruptions
foul hand. So if you build heaps of tight packed towns with granaries and milk them for population-costs that should be a good strategy for pure military conquest games.

Do you have experience with this sort of strategy, or what do you think?

 

[Theoden]

THis can be very effective if you have conquered an area far from home. ICS the conquered area and milk the cities for specialists. This is a very common strategy, especially in GOTM's.

 

[Frostyboy]

Sounds good

Excuce me for my lack of abbrevation knowledge but what does ICS and GOTM stand for?

 

[Jason Fliegel]

ICS is Infinite City Sprawl. It basically means cramming cities together as tightly as possible.

GOTM is Game of the Month. One of the subforums on this site is a Game of the Month forum; every month, they give you a save and you play it and submit a save after you've won or lost. Then you can compare how well you did to everyone else. Actually, these days there are two Games of the Month -- one for Vanilla Civ and Play the World (the save is available on the 15th of each month), and a second for Conquests (the save is available on the 1st).

 

[vmxa]

ICS Infinite city Spacing
GOTM Game Of The Month

 

[Frostyboy]

Alright!
I have played Civ for more than 10 years, but I haven't played (and only heard of) the GOTM, which I'll try
Personally I like small maps with fast turns, lot of millitary action preferably the Warhammer mod