Civ 5

[Jackalope]

After thirty turns, you suddenly get a boost that will save some turns on a tech. I don't know how much exactly, though. Just remember it isn't a boost for thirty turns. It's a boost after thirty turns.

One downside to research agreements - if you end up going to war with the person you have the agreement with, you lose the $.

I don't usually use them.

[Chad32]

It can be better to just focus on science buldings and wonders yourself, but the RAs are a viable alternative.

[Napoléon]

I'm absolutely dominating with my economy now, I'm producing well over 100 gold per turn and I'm only just in the renaissance. Seems good to me, my culture is suffering though. Seems like an age since I last updated a social policy and my citizens are the least happy in the entire world. Oh well. Money sounds better.

[Chad32]

Use that money to buy off cultural city states for a nice boost in culture.

[Napoléon]

[Napoléon]

Just got done winning a domination victory. Ended up it was just me and the Egyptians left. I had to nuke 'em like 6 times before I could take their capital. Nukes are definitely not as powerful as I was expecting in this game.

I'm thinking of starting another game now, I'll probably play as the Egyptians myself and go for a cultural/science victory. I will try out a fractal map as I saw a youtube video showing the different combinations of maps you can have and that one looked like one of the best.

[Nine]

I've been craving for a Civ 5 game but I just haven't had the time. I don't like to play unless I have at least 2 hours spare.

[Jackalope]

Just got done winning a domination victory. Ended up it was just me and the Egyptians left. I had to nuke 'em like 6 times before I could take their capital. Nukes are definitely not as powerful as I was expecting in this game.

Did they have a bomb shelter? That will make it more difficult.

FYI, nuclear missles are considerably more powerful than nuclear bombs.

Against cities, you're going to need more than one nuke to reduce to to where you can take it easily - however, the real power of nukes is to not only weaken cities, but to also destroy surrounding forces. When I launch a nuclear attack, I usually hit as many cities as I am able to in the first salvo - oftentimes that cripples the enemy military to the point where I can take their cities at my leisure.

[Napoléon]

Did they have a bomb shelter? That will make it more difficult.

FYI, nuclear missles are considerably more powerful than nuclear bombs.

Against cities, you're going to need more than one nuke to reduce to to where you can take it easily - however, the real power of nukes is to not only weaken cities, but to also destroy surrounding forces. When I launch a nuclear attack, I usually hit as many cities as I am able to in the first salvo - oftentimes that cripples the enemy military to the point where I can take their cities at my leisure.

Ahh I didn't know that missiles were that different. I only used bombs. I think I only just discovered rocketry upon winning the game.

Also I'm not sure they were using a bomb shelter, I nuked 3 cities and they all dropped around the same amount of health. Maybe they were all using shelters but I doubt it.

*edit* Another thing I realised, subs can't attack land. Kind of makes sense when I think about it but it really pissed me off because most of my navy was made up of subs and nuclear subs. I launched my first assault to find that half my navy was ineffective The thing that made it worse was that the Egyptians didn't even use a navy! There wasn't a single ship I had to destroy. I had about 8/9 subs and they all just sat there.

[Chad32]

I haven't tried out the death robots yet. Are they as fun as I would hope they'd be? I should probably just start a map in the nuar power age, and rock everyone with it.