So there are 3 weapon type, and 3 corresponding armour types.
I think offensive types were Beam, Missile, and Mass, with Shields, Point
Def, and Armour being the corresponding defense types.
This sounds cool, but what if you're at war with two different races, with

Need a recommendation....
I have a system I bought last year, and I'm coming back from Iraq with
a little extra $$.....so I'm not sure if I should get a new one, or
wait for a bit until technology improves...this is what I have;

I've come to the stage where I'm barely dribbling in resources and I
haven't even got many research done on anything, even though I control
most of the countries in the globe.  So I do all the lame "we are under
attack" missions while waiting for research to get going, and it's

What for you, have always been the best (serious or humorous) thing/s
about PC strategy gaming, compared to other leisure entertainments
(such as watching TV or a DVD,
book reading, having sex, or exercising (not that any of those valuable

I have Civ3 and i have always refered to it as a turn based strategy game.
However, when working with a certain play tester of my own game, he thought
my game was more tactical then strategic... which i missed altogether when i
called my game a strategy game... And that made me ...

    I've been following some of the discussions
here for the last couple months.  I have greatly
enjoyed the Civilization series and it looks like
Civ IV will be a lot of fun.  I went to Amazon.com and

If so, its about time to collect on my free game....your boy bush has
had almost 5 years, still no Osama and he is apparently alive and
well......
taken from an april 2002 thread......

When I try to install Civilization 4 it asks for Disc 2. Once I insert disc 2 it opens an explorer window which shows one file named data3.cab. Once I click OK to continue the installation, I get an error message that says Feature Transfer Erro
Feature :
Default Transfer Component:

I'm beginning to hate this game....crash...crash.!! I'm a long time Civ fan,
played the first one by Microprose. Maybe it's time to move on!!
Installed recent patch. Video options set to medium to low,
All video drivers are updated

My friend and I are playing a multiplayer Civ 4 game against 2 AI
player (4 players total).  We decided to team up against the AI players
by exchanging techs with each other.  But when we go to the diplomacy
screen, trading world maps is not on the list of tradable items.  What

which I just ordered from Play.com for £4.99
For 2 reasons: Price & Graphics capabilities of my PC.
I hope I made a good decision.

Does Voice Recognition help in games? Or do games take over the
complete system for themselves, thus rendering the voice
recognition software useless? And if it does work, any
recommendations, IYHO?

No impressions after playing demo? :) I, personally, am impressed. Didn't
expect such great game, really. It is clearly to see that this game was
really thought thorughfully. Very good interface and concept of the
gameplay, awesome graphic, SW music and all the SW lore is right ...

I'm playing against my mainland Chinese college flat mate who uses Chinese
Tank General. I use USA just for the challenge. I used to be in army and he
always makes fun of the (real life) US forces when we watch tv.
However, we have a NO RUSH rule for the first 10 minutes. And ...

I used to be a huge Civilization fan way back in early 90s when first
version was released, and played Civ2 quite a lot when it got out too...
but then took a long pause away from this wonderful game.
Anyway, during the hollydays I tried Civ2 again and offcourse, spent the