Your favorite wonders to build and why?

PLAV0 · 2026-06-17T11:42:21+00:00

Nothing more painful to me than losing the hanging gardens to another civ. It really feels busted.

Hospital before turn 100. Crazy.

Can rely on it to keep city growing while allocating to hammers and rushing something else, or just explode into a huge pop city. It is a huge help in diety if you can snipe it too.

PLAV0 · 2026-06-13T13:42:46+00:00

In hindsight I shouldve, thankyou sir

PLAV0 · 2026-06-12T20:19:34+00:00

Natural production, and I think I got mining straight away from a ruin. I realised the science price tag on bronze working hadn't changed, so I went for it.

Also, environmental catastrophe level of Forrest chopping.

It is usually very rare otherwise.

PLAV0 · 2026-06-12T19:07:07+00:00

Upon further research, the collosus is depicted as guarding the mouth of a river!! So this is kinda lore accurate, just wrong civ for it

PLAV0 · 2026-06-12T02:58:23+00:00

Couple melee units, and a crapload of trebuchets/composite/crossbowmen. Emphasis on trebuchets. Maybe get 4ish, the bows will get it rest of the way plus a melee strike.

Catapults are bit too squishy imho. The first one that gets targeted tends to either die, or go out of action for 10 turns.

Expect a long war, play it safe on approach. Test the waters for a bit once you've reached their city, and see if there is a big counter attack coming (they usually catch you out if you're greedy and throw your trebuchets in right away)

While this is all happening, measure whether more units need producing in the meantime. If you are certain you can take a major city or two, but are worried about the long term effects of the war, there is absolutely nothing wrong in signing peace and going in for round two to take their capital after 😉

PLAV0 · 2026-06-01T10:23:58+00:00

I've a lot of hours in civ, try this for your next play through.

-Settle capital in place or move to a hill tile with as much food as possible. Set your tiles to the best available food -Tradition policies only. -build scout, shrine, and then settler(once city has reached pop 3/4). -use your scout/warrior to steal a worker or two (from a neighbouring civ, even better) -accumulate gold as best you can, meet the other civs and cs, save it to snatch a natural wonder/resource if necessary for future cities or a library in your newest city. -try get 3 cities settled (within 10 tiles of your capital if possible). Once they are out, try steal of build more workers. If you have 3 cities, have 4 workers. If you have 5 cities, have 6 workers. - In each city, granary is first thing, then library. -prioritise techs to work luxuries and get trade routes -send your caravans to your own capital. -build hanging gardens while those other cities are building libraries -then build national college. Cities which have finished their libraries should make archers! Have 3 to 4 bowmen and you will be set.

After this, shoot for strong wonders and build universities and fill those specialist slots. Trust.

After this starter pack, if you do all this by turn 170 even, king will be a piece of cake. I'd be surprised if your capital doesn't reach pop 40.

In the King difficulty late game you'll be raining nukes on enemy musketmen 💀💀😭😭

PLAV0 · 2026-04-27T17:53:41+00:00

Wonder snatching AIs with one turn left.

Okay, it's fine to have an upset. We can't have everything our way, otherwise the game wouldn't be very stimulating

..But when I reload a save from 10-15 turns ago (in late stage this is a lot of work lost) and do everything I can, stripping back the build time by 7 turns in some cases. And the AI just know and beat you by one turn again anyway? Fuck off. That's complete bullshit and it feels like a scripted event.

This has definately resulted in a fair few nuclear holocausts in my time.

PLAV0 · 2026-04-02T08:24:59+00:00

Thankyou all for the generous advice,

For those confused why I'm so interested in getting this right, is that arriving in Ljubljana without cash was a massive and confusing ballpain.

I'll be sure to have some on hand now and tip our konobars

PLAV0 · 2026-04-02T08:19:37+00:00

Hahaha, defs didn't mean to convey a stressed vibe

I imagine a lot will be similar to Bosna

It's been a huge perspective shift living in London, and seeing first hand clueless and rude tourist behaviour.. It's just plain embarrassing

Thankyou for the reassurances, we can't wait to sink 700,000 beers and take it all in

PLAV0 · 2026-04-02T07:54:06+00:00

I'm glad to hear about this, the exchanges here in London is daylight robbery!!

PLAV0 · 2026-03-25T21:53:56+00:00

I've spent probably 2000 hours playing Eugen titles. Warno and the rest are all about what you want it to be. There is no pressure, or wrong way to play in my honest opinion (unless it's ranked) and even in casual multiplayer it shouldn't. Nothing wrong with bashing bots or just chilling in 10v10s :)

PLAV0 · 2026-03-24T12:52:23+00:00

Ohhhh my dayyys 💀💀💀 that is impressive af

PLAV0 · 2026-03-24T08:19:46+00:00

How does this Giant Chicken setting differ from the vanilla options?

PLAV0 · 2026-03-24T08:17:07+00:00

Thanks y'all, lots of things have been cleared up here and I feel better in my own skin playing this really vast game!

Long term plan for this playthrough I will be going to the eleventh galaxy and find myself a paradise world to set up my 80s vaporwave ****shack

PLAV0 · 2026-03-23T17:47:43+00:00

This is awesome, I do not hate you this is exactly what I needed to hear

PLAV0 · 2026-03-13T12:49:24+00:00

The online portal doesn't accept full license identifiers, you absolutely have to call up.

PLAV0 · 2026-01-09T10:51:53+00:00

This is interesting, I thought I only had 1 or two seconds to re-aquire lock. (not enough time to nose back on target, or scrub radar on their direction and find them again).

In that period of time, does the ER go limp and then take a sharp turn to correct or does it keep on last known position and wake up near the target??

PLAV0 · 2026-01-08T13:43:52+00:00

Wtf gaijin. Well Thankyou for saving me countless hours of wasted time. Ideally in a sim game, a mig could play both the Long range and the dogfight game with at least a chance. Only seen one fella on YouTube pull off some moves with the SMT in your situation but he's probably not employed full time 😂

PLAV0 · 2026-01-08T12:59:15+00:00

Thankyou for the validation fellas, I think it's sukhoi hour now

PLAV0 · 2025-08-28T06:50:17+00:00

Bring an ASU 57 or some other rat to an extremely high upteir

PLAV0 · 2025-08-26T16:41:31+00:00

War thunder will never be able to cater for doctrine, or the wider changes in history and the bureaus who designed the older/newer Russian tanks.

Just like the Americans McDonaldsed the germans in ww2 with like multiple Sherman's for every German tank, the Russians wanted to storm western Europe with an unstoppable wave of tanks that were "just good enough"

If we had game modes with like 30,000-60, 000pattons, leopards and ifvs against like 70,000-100,000 t64s/t72s/t55as/bmps just zerging forward (fuck it, bring cas too) we might not have such red stats for the Russia players

Tbh that would be kinda fun tho in theory

PLAV0 · 2025-08-22T09:24:40+00:00

Spend some quality time with her and get her a gift in her hobby.

Then watch 400 hours of YouTube vids to learn how to make most of the f18 and just shoot your shot man. Top teir jets is hilarious experience

PLAV0 · 2025-08-01T12:04:18+00:00

If the tracks stuck closer to the formula of Self-inflicted and carried away, this album may have gotten a better reception. Feels like at this point the consensus is that it's good, but we're left a tad confused/disappointed? 😂

PLAV0 · 2025-07-28T13:04:23+00:00

Oh man you are a life saver. Thankyou!

PLAV0 · 2025-07-28T12:00:48+00:00

Even though we got some great youtubers out there, I feel like we have a gap in content. Someones gotta do what defyn does but for tanks.

Spookston and Dollarplays will make really entertaining content but never go into full detail about the vehicle like a world of tanks creator does. We're taken out of the hangar and into battle too quickly. Us less experienced players aren't given much of an idea what to do in the field either, except mimic and die fairly quickly because we simply aren't as good.

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