Afforess
The White Wizard
Talking about interesting observations :
Two barbarians being dropped of by a couple of galleys.
Never seen that before.
Ouch, that city is so captured. Axemen's 5
and 50% vs melee crushes Spears 4 
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Ouch, that city is so captured. Axemen's 5
and 50% vs melee crushes Spears 4 Gewar
Chieftain
@Affores
The Well isn't tech island - you need the well to have pottery->metal casting->bronze working etc.
I have try advanced start with many, many points and buy techs one by one, skipping well, and I couldn't reach medieval era.
The Well isn't tech island - you need the well to have pottery->metal casting->bronze working etc.
I have try advanced start with many, many points and buy techs one by one, skipping well, and I couldn't reach medieval era.
generalstaff
Steadfast
Talking about interesting observations :
Two barbarians being dropped of by a couple of galleys.
Never seen that before.
Ouch, I have never seen Barbaraians go a-Viking. I need to build a southern navy with a few reserve chariots in my game immediately then...
dexter_inside
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Guess this is for real, I've also just seen this happen to some AI city
2ndimpression
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I have had this happen a few times - I am on huge/gigantic? map, snail with large open patches of water (70% or 80%) but they always land on my rivals shore as I have a strong navy all with -1 movement cost +15% against wooden ships so I am sitting pretty.
It was an axeman and a spearman
But the city actually survived due to their viking tactics: Pillage and Plunder.
They landed on a cottage, and pillaged it, which gave me time to bring backup.
szemek77
Prince
It was an axeman and a spearman
But the city actually survived due to their viking tactics: Pillage and Plunder.
They landed on a cottage, and pillaged it, which gave me time to bring backup.
Yes, it helps indeed. It is much better to lose even a village or town (it hurts though) than a city. I always try to deploy some units outside my borders, just as an early warning. If a big stack of enemy units are approaching to your borders, you will have some time to organize your defense.
Coming to the subject - first of all, the AI is doing much better than in 2.71. in my current game I'm one of the leading nations, but some others are doing very well. Lately a stack of Russian army came to my borders only to see well fortified city and - instead of suicide attack - AI just withdrew wisely without one shot.
Second - the game is sloooooooooooooooooooooooow as hell. And this is only 500 AD.....
Third - I stopped to use caravans, but - at least in my current game - the AI didn't start to use them either.
Fourth - AI are very active. Wars, diplomacy, settlement and expansion - everything is very dynamic, and makes the game very exciting!
Fifth - I used the "Big and Small" map, and it seems that there are more reosurces on the map than it used to be in 2.71. I got the marble and stone close to me (I like it) and previously I usually got access to neither of them.
Sixth - I agree with Afforess - using the mountains - rocks!
it helps a lot!Seventh - I can agree with Grunthex - AI brings much less siege weapons which makes your defense much easier.
TechXLtd
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Don't your units automatically get a bonus versus barb units? I've kinda noticed that since vanilla civ ivIt was an axeman and a spearman
But the city actually survived due to their viking tactics: Pillage and Plunder.
They landed on a cottage, and pillaged it, which gave me time to bring backup.
szemek77
Prince
depends on the diffuculty level.
Personally I think that my Civ has a hidden penalty when fighting barbs
I often loose >90% battles and when attacked with <20% I loose as well
I had some painful moments in my current game. In fact, barbs are to weak to
threaten my cities but they can mess with your ground improvements. That is why
I don't wait for them in my fortified cities, but I'm tryingo to protect my land as well.
It means that you have to fight them on the ground. Once, I lost 99 % battle
But I don't want to turn barbs off. First of all they force you to keep the proper defense level which is important, since AI will come one day to pay a visit, no matter what you do. Second - it is a great opportunity to get 20 XP for your units quite easily
By the way - I noticed that combat experience from fighting with barbs has a limit - 20 XP. Is it only RoM, or CIV IV in general.
Afforess
The White Wizard
In Civ4, it's 10XP, but RoM upped it to twenty.
szemek77
Prince
Sometimes, when I see the AI stack it makes me think, that this rule applies only to
human players. AI can somehow get 5-10 units with 5-7 promotions each, accompanied by tens of other units. Not to mention that it manages to transport them all around world to hunt you down. What about their defense? What about the maintenance costs?
Afforess
The White Wizard
AI gets a handicap with gold, since it is so terrible at using it. Better AI mod has been working to make the AI less and less handicap dependent, and the AI's a lot better than stock BTS, but it's till a work in progress.
szemek77
Prince
I'm convinced you are right, but still, as far as I know you CAN'T buy promotions for your units, can you?
generalstaff
Steadfast
Something I have noticed, running the Imperial Guard module with vincentz Warlord module results in one very powerful unit running amok.
dexter_inside
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Erii
Chieftain
Also, with animals, the vanilla cap is 5 XP, while in RoM it is 10.
generalstaff
Steadfast
Tried cornering it with lots of others?
The AI did not do that, I did (it was in an "Ancient Spec. Ops" stack which included Warlord Captains). The AI did the Warlord+Bandit combo though, now that was annoying to deal with due to the high withdraw percentage. Of course, if the AI did that, and was at the same tech level as me, I would probably fight fire with fire, and use my Warlord Imp. Guard against his.
dexter_inside
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