I don't know where I get this idea from, I have always considered that attacking after moving (units with 2 or more movement, units on roads). I can't find this in Civilopedia. Do you know if this is true or am I just imagining a rule?

I am playing an emperor standard sized arch game with the Vikings. I was able to keep the tech lead by trading until I got the Great Library, at which point I turned off research completely. I have since destroyed my island neighbors America and taken the whole next island over, leaving England and Persia extremely weak. Meanwhile, Zulu destroyed China and France has mostly taken over Byzantine.

France is now my largest rival and in the tech lead by far. When I look at their tech's available to trade to me, I see Printing Press, Education, and Engineering, but who knows what else they have. Invention? Gunpowder?

I'm building a bunch of archers and hording gold in anticipation of upgrading all of them to Berserks, so I don't think I'll have a problem taking them down once I finally get Invention, but it's killing me watching them run away with the tech lead.

Does it ever make sense to start investing in research with the GL when there's a single civ that's far outstripping everyone else?

Edit: I used espionage and learned that they're building Magellan's Voyage, meaning that they have Navigation already!

How far behind is too far behind when playing?

I got really behind in the Middle Ages and somehow caught up in the industrial age. I had 0 luxuries because Spain was hoarding them on our continent. I struggled to get my citizens happy enough to build my cities up. I had to start building a bunch of temples, cathedrals, and colosseums to keep my people happy. I almost gave up on the game but someone I caught up in techs.

Anybody ever experience this? Anything to do in the future I could do better or help myself. No idea if what I did was right but it worked. Playing Monarch difficulty

In post-tech regicide game, decided it's time to ICBM my neighbor into nonexistence. In preparation, I set up 70 settlers to be built next turn, when I will drop the bombs. Come next turn, only 7 are built. I reload and try again, only 6 build. The cities that did actually build them do lose the pop, while the ones that didn't gave the "x city builds settler" overlay as turn starts, lost no population, but shields wasted and the build changed to whatever the governor default wants to build, as if they had been built from a production standing.

So uh, does anybody have any idea what this is? I assume it's a bug since I got 7 first time and 6 on reload, but I'm curious what the cause is and if I can work around it

If there is anyone that still plays with the Scenario, i have a question. Is there a version, Cities, Regular, Start Position only, or With Cities, that has the Iroquois, Aztec, or Inca that allows them to have navel units?

Disclaimer: I currently play at monarch-level and I acknowledge that things change a lot at higher difficulties, but the observations I'm about to list should generally still apply I think.

TLDR: Feudalism and Fascism seem to be a lot more viable to me as most people make them appear. They require you to deviate a lot from the "normal" republic playing strategies to make use of them though. Forced labour plus military police is pretty strong, and these govs allow you to use fewer workers and build huge zerg-style armies.

I've been lurking in this sub a lot, reading lots of opinions on the goverment types (and watching Suede's videos ofc) and the gist I'm getting is: "republic and communism are op, democracy would be awesome if it wasn't such a hassle to unlock it, despotism is very good apart from high corruption and the despotism penalty, monarchy is kinda weak, feudalism and fascism are absolute trash"

I've played around with all governments and I understand all of these points, republic into communism has been my favourite strategy so far because it's by far the fastest way to get a huge empire that's a scientific and military powerhouse. Republic especially is so strong because the ~50% commerce buff is so versatile, as it can be used to offset the weak unit support, boost your tech research or just buy you lots of happiness and rushed production. I can't help but notice though that feudalism and fascism still seem to be very effective alternatives if you adapt your playstyle to them:

Feudalism

As far as I'm concerned, feudalism is just despotism with 50% more unit support, lower corruption and no despotism penalty - which already makes it sound pretty good, right? Since feudalism gives you +2 unit support and 2 military police, it effectively works like a buffed despotism with a free colosseum in every city. Rushing the great library is a must, but then the slower teching compared to republic isn't an issue anymore. I find that getting pottery asap (or building the Pyramids) is also very necessary because having granaries in your first cities is crucial.

Since you have to keep all of your cities below 7 population permanently (and thus can't ever work all of the tiles within their range), you can place them very densely with only one or two tiles of space between them, which is awesome if you have limited space to work with. Most of your cities will be terribly corrupt, but since you'll strongly rely on forced labour and food isn't affected by corruption, this is fine. You also need fewer workers, because you only really need to improve your core cities and connect the rest of them with roads for luxuries - everything you do revolves around "quantity over quality".

As soon as your expansion phase is over and you maxed out your military police in every city with warriors, you build barracks in all cities (and maybe also harbours in your coastal ones), use as much forced labour as your cities can handle (irrigated grasslands and luxuries really help with this) and keep pumping out massive hoardes of shitty military units for the rest of the game, extorting the shit out of the AI (which will think you're way more powerful then them bc of your massive army) and zerg rushing one opponent after another. As long as you can get your early expansion done and manage the unhappiness from forced labour and war weariness, you should end up with a very strong empire by the time your great library expires. If you can't win before the industrial age, switching into communism later on gives you a nice production boost.

Fascism

This is very much a "late-game" gov and much more situational. Since it punishes you for switching by killing a chunk of your pop, I feel like it's mostly useful for religious civs to switch into from republic. The weak commerce means you should definitely wait until you've at least researched replaceable parts, but any later point in time also works. Similarly to Feudalism, this gov relies heavily on using military police (a free temple plus cathedral in all cities!) and killing your population (in this case through drafting) to turn food into production and get a huge zerg army, although you need to pay attention to keep your cities big enough to sustain your unit support.

Unlike any other gov, this gives you ridiculously fast workers however (building roads and railroads on grasslands is instantaneous now!), so you use your artillery, bombers and nukes to destroy all enemy infrastructure to kill their mobility and production, take their ruined cities and rebuild them in real time as your army progresses. This also allows you to skimp on workers in general, which boosts your unit support even further compared to communism. Since most of the conquered cities will be shrunk to 1 pop from the bombardments and fascism penalty, culture flipping is almost a non-issue. Just like in feudalism, you can use your massive military to extort the AI to give you cities and tech in exchange for peace as well.

What are your thoughts on this? Have you experimented with playing these govs and figured out how to make them work (especially on higher difficulties)? I still think that republic is better in most circumstances, but I believe that these govs can still be effective if used well (and I really enjoy how they force you to break out from the usual meta playstyles).

20 years ago, I used a railroad mod that made them look in straight lines.

Now, I cannot find that mod. Is there any? (For Steam version of Civ3.)