How do get to destroy a rival's palace?

[Scouse Gits]

Yes - I'm fine for tonight (Boss permitting )

This presupposes the AI has Masonry - without it they cannot even start to build a Palace - for the militaristic civs Masonry is not a priority tech.

SG[1]

[Edited to correct civ tech modifier: Masonry has base value 4 increased to 5 for civilised civs and reduced to 3 for militaristic civs]

[Xin Yu]

spies poison the capital to size 1 then boom!

[Ming]

Originally posted by Xin Yu
spies poison the capital to size 1 then boom!

Ah yes... as always, Xin comes up with a practical solution to the problem

[La Fayette]

a spy may also plant a nuke and let you take the capital with a warrior (if you have one left )

BTW Xin, did you finish WW79?

[James Adams]

Thanks all for the replys! Thanks Xin for your solution!

[Xin Yu]

La Fayette, I haven't played recently so the answer is no. I'm playing a Japanese historical game (1560-1590) made by KOEI (which also produced "the romance of the three kingdoms", if you have heard of it). Need to follow exactly what happened in history in order for an event (military coup which killed the biggest warlord) to happen. So I'm doing some readings as well.

[Gatekeeper]

Originally posted by Xin Yu
spies poison the capital to size 1 then boom!

Heh. I did that against the Zulus not too long ago. Damn shame seeing that big, fat size 24 capital Zimbabwe suffer from "mysterious" bouts of severe water poisoning, thus losing people left and right.

Gatekeeper

[rah]

Originally posted by Xin Yu
La Fayette, I haven't played recently so the answer is no. I'm playing a Japanese historical game (1560-1590) made by KOEI (which also produced "the romance of the three kingdoms", if you have heard of it). Need to follow exactly what happened in history in order for an event (military coup which killed the biggest warlord) to happen. So I'm doing some readings as well.

When we were still using our NES boxes, we'd buy any KOEI game produced. Any of the Three Kingdom series. The G. Khan ones. There was a trading/exploring/fighting game on the High Seas. The pacific naval WWII games. Everyone was a great game.
(Our first exposure to CIV was on the NES box)

RAH

[Straybow]

Yes, I was surprised when I saw Civ on a NES being played by a friend's 6 or 7 year old little brother a little while after Civ2 came out.

[Xin Yu]

Originally posted by rah
There was a trading/exploring/fighting game on the High Seas.
RAH

I have played that one, 'New Horizons'. It is still hot in China after this many years. I found the quickest way to earn a lot of money at the beginning -- if you get to the store in Tripoli at 2am and buy a tax waiver, then you can go to Istanbul and buy/sell wool to make instant money since the buying and selling prices are the same and when you buy the price goes up. I still has the game on my PC and I often sit there just to repeat this scheme for 1 hour and being very rich when it is only the 3rd month into the game!

[Scouse Gits]

Sounds cool - is it available for download anywhere - I have certainly never seen it in the UK ...

SG[1]

[Xin Yu]

SG[1]: This is the second one from a game series 'koukai' (Japanese: sailing the sea) so the official name is 'koukai 2' (now koukai 4 is the newest one of the series). It was available on both PC and video game system 'super nintendo' (SNES). The SNES version is in English but the PC one is in Japanese and there are Chinese and Korean version as well.

I don't think there is a English version for PC but you can send an e-mail and ask Koei. It's English name is either 'New Horizon' or 'Uncharted Water'.

Japanese website is www.koei.co.jp and they have a branch in US www.koeigames.com. A lot of games are only available in the Japanese website.

[Xin Yu]

And this is the newest game of the series

[Xin Yu]

The 3rd of the series is in my point of view the best of the series. It came to China after the 4th for a political reason -- in the Japanese version you can trade slaves thus the game was banned in China until Koei removed slave trading (by far the most profitable commodity, after removing it some people suddenly did not know how to make money) in the Chinese version.

[Scouse Gits]

These look seriously interesting - I shall look up the manufacturer etc once I sober up...

Hey Xin - why don't you join our Succession Game - we could use a seriously deviant mind to make things interesting ...

The SGs well oiled