grats and best wishes and all of that stuff for getting married
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as far as your game .... very nicely done, and absolutely no culture slider at that, wow! i'm certainly not that brave
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the same exact civs died in my game as in yours. of course in my game some were my fault, and they weren't in yours, but we won't mention that since it might make me look mean *giggle*. the order of the scoreboard at the end is very different tho. toku was first place among the AIs in mine, and HC last for example, but not in yours. so funny how things work out!
"I had one hairy moment though. As you can see I only have 1 cavalry left at 2.8 health. Monty still has some units left, but doesn't continue the attack. So that got me wondering. Would he have taken the city when he beat that cavalry, or would Julius protect me? If anyone could clarify this, it would be good to know."
above that you said "I decide to bring in so others to prevent them from getting the wrong idea of attacking me. I enlist JC, GK and Peter for Astronomy and Military tradition." so i think that means Julius is at war with Monty too right? if he is, i think that
if his troops stay in your cities, they defend it when monty tries to attack it. but i might be wrong. and even if i'm right, they might move before it's technically monty's turn! Monty is very weird. thankfully this often this works in our favor
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i do know (from harsh experience) that if you leave airplanes in a friendly civ's city to use on an anemy, and that enemy has OB and walks into that city, the troops in that city don't defend your planes because that civ isn't at war, they have OB. that's expensive and painful, and now i always send a guard beford i send the planes *giggle*.
), why not try the 0-culture slider approach.