On Noble or above, do they not give you anything as useful as a worker
or settler?

I find found myself in between three civs all that had iron, while I
had none. Now to me theres just no way, and thats how its playing out,
but I am curious to know if expert players would judge the situation
similarly.If not what would be some ideas that I could have used? I

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Check it out

Playing in a four player human game with a few AI's
Being smashed so needed to raze my cities but in Civ iv can't.
So gifted them to an ally, declared war and took them back with units and
yet not getting the option to raze on all cities which

Oh no

I have purchased this game retail.  The no-cd copy protection is quite
annoying, I'm sure we all know the reasons why.  Anyway, I can't seem
to find a no-cd exe for Civ 3: Complete Edition.  Does one exist?
- Jon Oblad

Anybody tried Smart Map
I have been playing around with it then going into World Builder
to see what it had created and got some realy strange maps
Then I started a game as Indian and my second city was as usual Bombay

Well, I just like having a printed manual that I can hold in my hand.
Civ 4 came out something like a year ago, so I figure that if I want to
get that printed manual, I can't postpone buying much longer.
Which "box" or game version should I buy, if I want a printed manual?

Does anyone know in which .xml file is stored the limits which prevent
more than 5 or 10 experience points respectively being gained from
fighting the above?

Minefields - they could be a tile 'improvement', like farms, mines etc.
Naturally they wouldn't be available until you'd reached the equivalent
of late 19th C technology.
You could lay them around your exposed borders/cities (at sea too), and

I decided I couldn't take "Warlords" any more - the vanilla game is much
more enjoyable. I do miss the Great Wall and the special buildings (though
not Ragnar Snotnose and Stalin), but in all, I find the aggressivity and the
general feeling that in "Warlords", the whole game has ...

This kind of stuff I find really annoying.
Im sitting outside a barbarian village with an axeman, and on the same
square as my axe is a celtic archer (AI).
I need to wait for a couple more axemen to arrive before I attack the

Do you make much use of the various mills - wind/water/lumber?
Also, IMO once you develop really advanced technologies, you should be
able to exploit mountain/desert/ice squares.

Is there a way to raze your own cities as opposed to a city just conquered
in Civ IV?
Am fighting a war and the best tactic would be to raze my cities so they
can't be used against me.

Are there any in the offing?
If you could design one yourself, what would you like included in it?