waiting for that expac sale on steam

waiting for multiplayer players

this new thread is so much easier to keep up with
better make a new one though, this one is sullied!

how many posts would you say that it would take for you to not be able to keep up with the content?

This post has been edited by blind_chief on Fri - Nov 2 2012 - 21:19:16

first

already played like 3 nights in a row this week
more than ive played in a while

start that shit up

just started a new game
founded my city
game froze and force closed

u game?

MONGORIA
BUIRD SHITTY WALL

playing mongoria
all the way through medieval era and no horses anywhere on the entire continent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtrpQDPQybo&hd=1

lol a scout
well played

nicely done

random civ
random map size
random # civs
emperor
marathon

im on an island with montazuma, i end up being egypt
typically montazuma covets my land after he has 7 cities in the first 50 turns
he throws every troop at my city, i kill it, ive lost like 2 troops to his endless supply of troops he throws at me
i could have ended it but ofc he wants everything of mine
we have been fighting for over a thousand years
still have not made it off my island, but im pulling the elizabeth approach and will soon wipe out montazuma

montizuma bought all citystates, none will be my m8 now lol

turns out its a tiny map, 2 islands, and just him and i
i dont feel so bad now, no way i lose a 1 v 1 domination map
kinda shitty though, really wanted more from this game

also, since the ofc rapid expansion early game and starting the endless war he has not expanded to all area he has available. he only wants my land!

This post has been edited by blind_chief on Tue - Nov 13 2012 - 22:00:45

in the year 1977 montazuma decides hes an idiot, gives me all his gold and resources
i immediately buy all 4 city states friendship
can we get a setting that makes the ai really good, gives them a head start but does not require the ridiculous "you must be an active trader at all timers" setting priz

alright, fooling around with g&k
afk 200 hours

a rifleman now takes like 3 turns to beat a bowman
i started a diety game, 1 v 1 for kicks just to see how hard. computer has like 7 boats with soldiers before i barely have aqaducts

fall of rome scenario is kind of cool, play on at least top 2 difficulties though

played on emperor, great library got built with 4 turns to go for mine

catapults dont take iron any more, damn that was needed

about to conquer enemy civs city

suddenly, allied computer makes peace with them. who knows how much shit they had to give away to do it

barb units spawn like weeds. early soldiers seem far more important now.

Early unit survival seems key, with the increased promotions you can really have some augmented troops before warring anyone

composite bowman are op
happiness seems to be a lot easier to manage also

adrianople demands salt

who are you to deny them their salt???


??????????????

he who controls the spice controls the universe

fear is the mind killer

UPDATE: cities can be captured by naval units

!

i think they gave catherine bigger tits

mongolian invasion scenario also pretty cool, i cant manage unhappiness at the speed that i conquer shit

i guess the map is always the same, so theres really a single "best" way to attack, based on the bonuses you get from killing citystates/wiping out civs

marching units into chu-ko-nu crossfire is painful

especially when you have 5 super-upgraded main units that really sucks to lose one

fall of rome on immortal difficulty, when playing as rome, is insane

goths coming down from asia, vandals across north africa, sassanids coming from east asia, celts across the english channel, all have shitloads of units and you have a handful of roman legion to defend every corner of the empire

every time you lose a city you gain culture which you are forced to spend on negative bonuses

the game lasts 70 turns, 3 turns in and all my border cities are under siege already

and only major cities have really any production, rome is the only true producing city

emperor, 8 player 8 city state
turn 7, encounter elizabeth
turn 8, she talks shit to me and is now hostile

emperor, every game so far
first ~100 turns, encounter civ on another continent
+1 turn, they covet my lands

dont really understand the "into the renaissance" scenario at all

so it tells me there is one religion that can still be founded, but i cant found it
i dont understand

tooltip randomly updates to zero available religions even though nothing new has been founded
ohh well

This post has been edited by blind_chief on Fri - Nov 23 2012 - 21:18:24

steam power scenario is cool. im gonna play the shit out of this

pillaging to give unit life is pretty huge when attacking/being attacked. seems to totally balance what used to be an "ok, let them attack to thin them out" strat

turn 171, 1110 ad
spy steals bronze working from me
ummm, should i be mad or happy

ya invading armies dont have to be afraid to do anything and just sit fortified by the city they are trying to take, i like it, and also if you dont end up succeeding in taking the city, you retreat and leave the land pillaged to shit

very fun, was sharing a mainland with 1 other civ, i had a spy in his capital that tipped me off to him getting ready to surprise attack me. held him off from my capital, he reversed to another city of mine, held him off there, then he backed off and took over my strongly allied citystate
hit a tech that let me upgrade the base melee units (very important in this scenario i found out), and was able to liberate the citystate and use powerful land unit to steamroll into his territory and smash his shit


turns out the victory conditions in this game (hold 3 of 5 titles for 5 turns) are actually very conducive to my play habits anyway (large capital with many buildings and wonders for strong tech)

no one else was up to the latest technology ships, which was why i could take over land so easily

had 2 spies die, both in my main enemies capital, one named boris the other natascha, all my other spies lived the whole game

russian names are the best for spies

i do like the spies mechanic, but donno about the random chances of if your spy is killed or not