[PC] Civilization IV

Im still new to the game.. I've gotten past settler, trying the next difficutly, (warlord?) I still tend to take things slow and fall behind sometimes, (not making a new settler in time, etc..) and recenty I've been starting in some really bad locations. No resources, no workable terain... just auful stuff. And to top it all off, I get barbarian towns near me and they pillage all my stuff.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by zzeroparticle

Yeah, I still have a bad habit of massing up on one type of offensive unit. It's still hard getting used to the fact that every unit seems to have a counter to it, and building one of the same unit allows the opposition to just build one unit in order to counter it really effectively.

I also find air strikes to be annoying as all hell. Nothing worse than when the computer declares war and begins sending airstrikes, destroying all of the terrain improvements that my workers have worked so hard on in order to build up.

Its quite possible to keep al the cpu's friendly towards you. Every so often, give each of them one of your early techs, get open border treaties going, send religion people to convert them, or adopt the same religion as them...

When they contact you and demand that you stop trading with so and so, decline but then before closing the window, give them a gift. A tech and world map if you have it.

Keeping them all pleased for friendly towards you makes winning a diplomatic victory (Through the UN) much easier. And if that doesn't work, by that time you should already have 1, if not 2 cities with legendary culture status, or close to the space race.

There's nowhere I can't reach.